Poudenx

Landes · CC Chalosse Tursan · INSEE 40232

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

No daily shops 19.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 57 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Poudenx (INSEE 40232) is in Landes (40), part of CC Chalosse Tursan. Population 219 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/40232-poudenx

Vitality score

Vitality score 19.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 57 % of the 16,520 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.65	10	6.47
Housing mix	0.81	5	4.06

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 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”.

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

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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: 239 2023: 219 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 234 (2012) → 219 (2023): -6.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 191 (1990) → 219 (2023): 14.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 117, of which 9.4 % second homes and 6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 1.0 km EBakery — 5.7 km WPharmacy — 7.0 km NGP — 8.5 km SW 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 (Castaignos-Souslens): 5.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Peyre): 1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Sault-de-Navailles): 8.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Hagetmau): 7 km to the north (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Poudenx): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[12]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 30.1

Days at or below 0 °C 39.7

Muggy days a summer 13.5▸

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 30 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the AMOU LATEOULERE weather station, 13.2 km away at 48 m; the village itself is at 123 m. ^[13]

The village sits 75 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 4.94 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 14 days a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at URGONS, 13.7 km away at 146 m, over 30 summers. ^[13]

An average of 1,127 mm of rain a year, spread over 131 days — about 8.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at CAZALIS, 8 km away at 105 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40232/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40232/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40232/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40232/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40069
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40223
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64510
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40119
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40232
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
Antagnac	47	98 km NE	223	20.2	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 82 % · humidity 43 %
Pleine-Selve	33	195 km N	223	20	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 99 %
Cours-de-Monségur	33	132 km NE	237	18.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 84 % · humidity 50 %
Puycalvel	81	216 km E	217	18.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 92 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Salvy	47	114 km NE	200	20.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 43 %
Saint-Antoine	32	125 km NE	194	19.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 69 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Antagnac	47	98 km NE	223	20.2	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 82 % · humidity 43 %
Saint-Salvy	47	114 km NE	200	20.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 43 %
Saint-Antoine	32	125 km NE	194	19.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 69 % · humidity 79 %
Cours-de-Monségur	33	132 km NE	237	18.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 84 % · humidity 50 %
Pleine-Selve	33	195 km N	223	20	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 99 %
Puycalvel	81	216 km E	217	18.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 92 % · humidity 36 %

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…and in much the same climate

The same match on size and services, narrowed to communes whose summers, winters and summer humidity are all close to Poudenx's. All three are required, so this section is absent for the 11.8 % of communes with no humidity station near enough to measure: two temperature axes alone cannot tell a muggy coast from a dry one.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Uhart-Mixe	64	49 km SW	213	11	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Sorbets	40	21 km E	198	11.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Ramouzens	32	67 km NE	190	10.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Latrille	40	24 km E	168	10.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Bascous	32	63 km NE	170	12.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Boumourt	64	16 km S	151	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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