Saint-Étienne-d'Orthe

Landes · CC Pays d'Orthe et Arrigans · INSEE 40256

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

Few services 33.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 55 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Étienne-d'Orthe (INSEE 40256) is in Landes (40), part of CC Pays d'Orthe et Arrigans. Population 740 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/40256-saint-etienne-d-orthe

Vitality score

Vitality score 33.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 55 % of the 16,142 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	10	0
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 0 of 4

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

1 × Restaurant (LA CASE DE L'OCEAN). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (SAINT ETIENNE D ORTHE AP). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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	LA CASE DE L'OCEAN	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)	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	SAINT ETIENNE D ORTHE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 502 2023: 740 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 644 (2012) → 740 (2023): 14.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 407 (1990) → 740 (2023): 81.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 371, of which 8.9 % second homes and 5.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 2.5 km SFood shop — 2.8 km SPharmacy — 4.1 km NEBakery — 4.9 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 (Saint-Lon-les-Mines): 4.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Port-de-Lanne): 2.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Port-de-Lanne): 2.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Lon-les-Mines): 4.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Étienne-d'Orthe): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 25.4

Days at or below 0 °C 31.5

Muggy days a summer 21▸

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 25 days a year at or above 30 °C and 32 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the PEYREHORADE LER weather station, 8.1 km away at 5 m; the village itself is at 43 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 21 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ST M HINX STNA-INRAE, 10 km away at 37 m, over 29 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,324 mm of rain a year, spread over 137 days — about 9.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at PEYREHORADE LER, 8.1 km away at 5 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 — 40256/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40256/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40256/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40256/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40269
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40231
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40256
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
Sansais	79	302 km N	760	28.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 82 % · humidity 0 %
Pouzilhac	30	465 km E	756	33.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 81 % · humidity 0 %
Bec-de-Mortagne	76	691 km N	703	30.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 51 % · winter 95 %
Bonnac	09	229 km E	801	34.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 0 %
Loisy	71	590 km NE	693	32.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 65 % · humidity 0 %
Rouessé-Vassé	72	514 km N	785	28.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 89 % · humidity 0 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bonnac	09	229 km E	801	34.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 0 %
Sansais	79	302 km N	760	28.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 82 % · humidity 0 %
Pouzilhac	30	465 km E	756	33.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 81 % · humidity 0 %
Rouessé-Vassé	72	514 km N	785	28.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 89 % · humidity 0 %
Loisy	71	590 km NE	693	32.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 65 % · humidity 0 %
Bec-de-Mortagne	76	691 km N	703	30.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 51 % · winter 95 %

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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 Saint-Étienne-d'Orthe'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
Saint-Laurent-de-Gosse	40	9.6 km SW	745	31.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Biaudos	40	11 km SW	1,041	33.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Orx	40	16 km W	647	40.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Orthevielle	40	4.7 km SE	1,073	27.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Josse	40	6.9 km NW	1,018	34.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Pey	40	5.0 km NW	838	36.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

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