Lourquen

Landes · CC Terres de Chalosse · INSEE 40160

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school.

Few services 24/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 76 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lourquen (INSEE 40160) is in Landes (40), part of CC Terres de Chalosse. Population 193 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 24/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 76 % of the 15,747 communes of a similar size.

Compare this with communes of a similar size. The score measures how well a place is served relative to its own size band, and larger communes score higher as a rule — so it reads meaningfully against another village, and misleadingly against a town.

Measured but not scored in this model: Market. See the methodology for why.

Component	Value (0–1)	Weight	Contribution
Daily food	0	25	0
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.64	10	6.35
Housing mix	0.91	5	4.53

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 of 3

Lodging 0 of 2

One square per service type, shaded by how many: none, one, a few, five or more. A blank square means none was counted — the sources do not distinguish “none here” from “not counted”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (BRIN D AVOINE). ^[3,4]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CHRISTOPHE SAINT-PASTOU, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	1	BRIN D AVOINE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	CHRISTOPHE SAINT-PASTOU, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 211 peak 2007: 214 2023: 193 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 197 (2012) → 193 (2023): -2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 170 (1990) → 193 (2023): 13.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 106, of which 4.7 % second homes and 8.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

GP — 0.8 km WPrimary school — 2.6 km NFood shop — 2.8 km NEBakery — 3.4 km NEPharmacy — 3.5 km NE Straight-line, from the mairie, in the direction given. Services in the same town share a spoke. Distance is not travel time: a pass or an estuary can double it.

Bakery (Mugron): 3.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Mugron): 2.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Lourquen): 0.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Mugron): 3.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Laurède): 2.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 36.1

Days at or below 0 °C 33.4

Each track runs from the 5th to the 95th percentile of the 34,141 communes with that measurement; the tick is the median. A value beyond either end sits at the end and is marked ▸.

An average of 36 days a year at or above 30 °C and 33 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the POYARTIN weather station, 8.6 km away at 47 m; the village itself is at 70 m. ^[11]

An average of 1,118 mm of rain a year, spread over 134 days — about 8.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MUGRON, 2.8 km away at 83 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40160/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40160/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40160/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40160/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40201
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40160
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40147
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

Villages like this one

Matched on size, density, second homes and which everyday shops and services are present — not on the score, so a village of the same kind that is doing better or worse shows up rather than being hidden.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Pimbo	40	37 km SE	195	25	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 88 %
Francarville	31	205 km E	191	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 93 %
Montberaud	31	169 km E	192	23.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 58 %
La Sauzière-Saint-Jean	81	196 km E	254	23.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 93 %
Bost	03	434 km NE	183	20.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 82 %
Sainte-Mère	32	121 km E	200	20.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 97 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Pimbo	40	37 km SE	195	25	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 88 %
Sainte-Mère	32	121 km E	200	20.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 97 %
Montberaud	31	169 km E	192	23.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 58 %
La Sauzière-Saint-Jean	81	196 km E	254	23.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 93 %
Francarville	31	205 km E	191	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 93 %
Bost	03	434 km NE	183	20.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 82 %

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