Sainte-Colombe

Landes · CC Chalosse Tursan · INSEE 40252

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

Few services 37/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 71 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sainte-Colombe (INSEE 40252) is in Landes (40), part of CC Chalosse Tursan. Population 633 (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 37/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 71 % of the 16,798 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.82	5	4.11

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JEAN-MICHEL ALEXIS, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Library (MEDIATHEQUE CHALOSSE TURSAN SAINTE-COLOMBE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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		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)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	JEAN-MICHEL ALEXIS, 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	1	MEDIATHEQUE CHALOSSE TURSAN SAINTE-COLOMBE	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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 432 peak 2012: 668 2023: 633 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 668 (2012) → 633 (2023): -5.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 407 (1990) → 633 (2023): 55.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 303, of which 8.9 % second homes and 1.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school, GP Food shop — 3.2 km SWBakery — 3.5 km SPharmacy — 4.1 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 (Hagetmau): 3.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Hagetmau): 3.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Sainte-Colombe): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Hagetmau): 4.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Sainte-Colombe): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 38.8

Days at or below 0 °C 28.8

Muggy days a summer 15.4▸

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 39 days a year at or above 30 °C and 29 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the DOAZIT weather station, 7.6 km away at 95 m; the village itself is at 96 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 15 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at URGONS, 10.9 km away at 146 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 50 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 970 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 7.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ST-SEVER, 6 km away at 89 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40252/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40252/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40252/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40252/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40119
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40252
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
Lunan	46	234 km NE	625	39.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 84 % · humidity 14 %
Le Gué-de-Velluire	85	301 km N	525	33.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 99 % · humidity 7 %
Pey	40	52 km W	838	36.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 99 % · humidity 57 %
Eysus	64	60 km S	625	28.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 85 % · humidity 57 %
Notre-Dame-de-l'Isle	27	627 km N	630	28.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 78 % · humidity 0 %
Juvigny	74	607 km NE	639	33.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 26 % · humidity 0 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Pey	40	52 km W	838	36.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 99 % · humidity 57 %
Eysus	64	60 km S	625	28.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 85 % · humidity 57 %
Lunan	46	234 km NE	625	39.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 84 % · humidity 14 %
Le Gué-de-Velluire	85	301 km N	525	33.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 99 % · humidity 7 %
Juvigny	74	607 km NE	639	33.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 26 % · humidity 0 %
Notre-Dame-de-l'Isle	27	627 km N	630	28.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 78 % · humidity 0 %

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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 Sainte-Colombe'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
Hagetaubin	64	20 km S	568	31	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Préchacq-les-Bains	40	30 km W	808	38.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Poyartin	40	25 km W	776	30.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Cassen	40	26 km W	624	31.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Montsoué	40	7.0 km NE	566	26.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Castelnau-Chalosse	40	23 km W	593	40.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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