Saint-Lon-les-Mines

Landes · CC Pays d'Orthe et Arrigans · INSEE 40269

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

Few services 39.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 53 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Lon-les-Mines (INSEE 40269) is in Landes (40), part of CC Pays d'Orthe et Arrigans. Population 1,246 (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/40269-saint-lon-les-mines

Vitality score

Vitality score 39.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 53 % of the 12,988 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.59	10	5.85
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.92	10	9.21
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.58

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LE FOURNIL DE SAINT LON). ^[3,4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PRIVEE NOTRE-DAME). ^[3]

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (SEBASTIEN COIFFARD, MÉDECIN · AGNES PONS, MÉDECIN · LAURENCE NGUYEN-LIGUORY, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DASTEGUY). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SAINT LON LES MINES AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE DE SAINT-LON-LES-MINES). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (GNAC E PAUSE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	LE FOURNIL DE SAINT LON	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PRIVEE NOTRE-DAME	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	SEBASTIEN COIFFARD, MÉDECIN · AGNES PONS, MÉDECIN · LAURENCE NGUYEN-LIGUORY, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DASTEGUY	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	SAINT LON LES MINES AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE DE SAINT-LON-LES-MINES	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		INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hotel	1	GNAC E PAUSE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 809 2023: 1,246 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,166 (2012) → 1,246 (2023): 6.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 877 (1990) → 1,246 (2023): 42.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 623, of which 4.2 % second homes and 6.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school GP — 0.7 km SWPharmacy — 1.0 km SWFood shop — 6.3 km N 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): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Tercis-les-Bains): 6.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Lon-les-Mines): 0.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Lon-les-Mines): 1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Lon-les-Mines): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 21.4

Days at or below 0 °C 33.1

Muggy days a summer 12.1▸

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 33 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the PEYREHORADE LER weather station, 8.5 km away at 5 m; the village itself is at 97 m. ^[10]

The village sits 92 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 12 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at DAX, 9.6 km away at 31 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 66 m below 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 1,324 mm of rain a year, spread over 137 days — about 9.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at PEYREHORADE LER, 8.5 km away at 5 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 — 40269/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40269/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40269/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40269/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40269
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40314
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
Lucenay-lès-Aix	58	499 km NE	936	33.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 32 %
Ban-de-Laveline	88	816 km NE	1,148	24.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 22 % · humidity 21 %
Castelnau-sur-Gupie	47	145 km NE	917	41.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 78 % · humidity 64 %
Muron	17	270 km N	1,378	40.6	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 81 % · humidity 57 %
Aubiet	32	154 km E	1,134	32.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 80 % · humidity 79 %
Villereversure	01	588 km NE	1,420	39	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 58 % · humidity 36 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Castelnau-sur-Gupie	47	145 km NE	917	41.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 78 % · humidity 64 %
Aubiet	32	154 km E	1,134	32.5	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 80 % · humidity 79 %
Muron	17	270 km N	1,378	40.6	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 81 % · humidity 57 %
Lucenay-lès-Aix	58	499 km NE	936	33.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 32 %
Villereversure	01	588 km NE	1,420	39	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 58 % · humidity 36 %
Ban-de-Laveline	88	816 km NE	1,148	24.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 22 % · humidity 21 %

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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-Lon-les-Mines'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
Ogeu-les-Bains	64	72 km SE	1,290	40.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Habas	40	16 km E	1,489	47.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Le Houga	32	78 km E	1,202	47.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Uzein	64	61 km SE	1,326	37.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Samadet	40	52 km E	1,123	54.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Irissarry	64	41 km S	870	63	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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