Rivière-Saas-et-Gourby

Landes · CA du Grand Dax · INSEE 40244

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Few services 38.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 46 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Rivière-Saas-et-Gourby (INSEE 40244) is in Landes (40), part of CA du Grand Dax. Population 1,476 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[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 38.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 46 % of the 11,765 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.86	5	4.31

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (L'EPICERIE). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LES QUATRE SAISONS · CHEZ MIGNON). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (RIVIERE SAAS ET GOURBY AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE DE RIVIERE-SAAS-ET-GOURBY). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (CREA STYLE). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING LOU BASCOU). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Bakery (boulangerie).

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	L'EPICERIE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	2	LES QUATRE SAISONS · CHEZ MIGNON	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	RIVIERE SAAS ET GOURBY AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE DE RIVIERE-SAAS-ET-GOURBY	INSEE BPE 1 [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	2	CREA STYLE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	1	CAMPING LOU BASCOU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 698 2023: 1,476 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,199 (2012) → 1,476 (2023): 23.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 809 (1990) → 1,476 (2023): 82.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 728, of which 6.9 % second homes and 6.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 2.9 km WBakery — 3.2 km NEPharmacy — 3.7 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 (Mées): 3.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Rivière-Saas-et-Gourby): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saubusse): 2.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saubusse): 3.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Rivière-Saas-et-Gourby): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 26.9

Days at or below 0 °C 24.1

Muggy days a summer 15.8▸

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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 24 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the DAX weather station, 6.7 km away at 31 m; the village itself is at 19 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 16 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at DAX, 6.7 km away at 31 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,163 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 9.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at DAX, 6.7 km away at 31 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 — 40244/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40244/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40244/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40244/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40179
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40244
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40293
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
Lamothe-Montravel	24	161 km NE	1,443	34	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 70 %
Saint-Clément	19	291 km NE	1,386	38.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 80 % · humidity 0 %
Heugas	40	7.0 km SE	1,398	31.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Ruminghem	62	836 km N	1,614	40.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 74 % · humidity 0 %
Awala-Yalimapo	973	6,638 km SW	1,577	43.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 0 % · winter 68 %
Sainte-Marie-de-Gosse	40	15 km SW	1,241	36.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Heugas	40	7.0 km SE	1,398	31.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Marie-de-Gosse	40	15 km SW	1,241	36.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 64 %
Lamothe-Montravel	24	161 km NE	1,443	34	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 70 %
Saint-Clément	19	291 km NE	1,386	38.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 80 % · humidity 0 %
Ruminghem	62	836 km N	1,614	40.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 74 % · humidity 0 %
Awala-Yalimapo	973	6,638 km SW	1,577	43.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 0 % · winter 68 %

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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 Rivière-Saas-et-Gourby'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
Heugas	40	7.0 km SE	1,398	31.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Villegouge	33	158 km NE	1,325	37.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Genès-de-Fronsac	33	162 km NE	994	46.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Périssac	33	163 km NE	1,184	30.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Lacq	64	52 km SE	1,036	46.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Mimbaste	40	15 km E	1,001	26.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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