Saint-Michel-Escalus

Landes · CC Côte Landes Nature · INSEE 40276

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

Few services 21.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 46 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Michel-Escalus (INSEE 40276) is in Landes (40), part of CC Côte Landes Nature. Population 332 (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/40276-saint-michel-escalus

Vitality score

Vitality score 21.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 46 % of the 18,042 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.38	5	1.91

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 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 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”.

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

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

4 × Campsite (AIRE NATURELLE COUDAS · CAMPING LANDES OCEANES · AIRE NATURELLE DU CAYRE · HUTTOPIA LANDES SUD). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), 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 SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	4	AIRE NATURELLE COUDAS · CAMPING LANDES OCEANES · AIRE NATURELLE DU CAYRE · HUTTOPIA LANDES SUD	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 161 2023: 332 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 293 (2012) → 332 (2023): 13.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 161 (1990) → 332 (2023): 106.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 272, of which 30.9 % second homes and 4.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.0 km NGP — 3.0 km NEBakery — 3.2 km NFood shop — 3.7 km SWPharmacy — 3.9 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 (Linxe): 3.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Léon): 3.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Linxe): 3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Léon): 3.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Linxe): 3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 25

Days at or below 0 °C 46.2

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 46 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LEON weather station, 3.9 km away at 21 m; the village itself is at 21 m. ^[10]

An average of 1,195 mm of rain a year, spread over 134 days — about 8.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LEON, 3.9 km away at 21 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 — 40276/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40276/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40276/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 40276/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40155
INSEE BPE 2025 — 40150
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
Néons-sur-Creuse	36	360 km NE	351	15.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 81 %
Saint-Michel-en-Brenne	36	375 km NE	313	14.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 81 %
Babeau-Bouldoux	34	339 km E	309	18	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 21 % · winter 55 %
Marles-sur-Canche	62	766 km N	314	16.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 44 % · winter 84 %
Crain	89	551 km NE	410	17.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 97 %
Poligny	05	588 km E	338	27.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 56 % · winter 5 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Babeau-Bouldoux	34	339 km E	309	18	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 21 % · winter 55 %
Néons-sur-Creuse	36	360 km NE	351	15.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 81 %
Saint-Michel-en-Brenne	36	375 km NE	313	14.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 81 %
Crain	89	551 km NE	410	17.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 97 %
Poligny	05	588 km E	338	27.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 56 % · winter 5 %
Marles-sur-Canche	62	766 km N	314	16.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 44 % · winter 84 %

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Elsewhere

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