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Baleyssagues

Lot-et-Garonne · CC du Pays de Duras · INSEE 47020

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

No daily shops 15.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 40 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Baleyssagues (INSEE 47020) is in Lot-et-Garonne (47), part of CC du Pays de Duras. Population 188 (2023). [1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). [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/47020-baleyssagues

Vitality score

Vitality score 15.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 40 % of the 15,585 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0.21255.27
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.52105.22
Housing mix0.4852.38

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 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 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 food shop, but no school and nowhere to eat or drink. [3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AU FOURNIL CAMPAGNARD). [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, 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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)1AU FOURNIL CAMPAGNARDINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 217 2023: 188 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 181 (2012) → 188 (2023): 3.9 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 184 (1990) → 188 (2023): 2.2 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 122, of which 26.2 % second homes and 4.9 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 0.9 km NW (Baleyssagues)GP — 1.7 km SE (Duras)Food shop — 2.2 km E (Duras)Primary school — 2.6 km E (Duras)Pharmacy — 7.0 km SW (Monségur)
Bakery — 0.9 km NWGP — 1.7 km SEFood shop — 2.2 km EPrimary school — 2.6 km EPharmacy — 7.0 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 (Baleyssagues): 0.9 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Duras): 2.2 km to the east (straight line). [9]

GP (Duras): 1.7 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Monségur): 7 km to the south-west (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Duras): 2.6 km to the east (straight line). [9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 33 days a year at or above 30 °C and 31 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the DURAS weather station, 4.1 km away at 112 m; the village itself is at 73 m. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at MAUVEZIN-SUR-GUPIE, 13.6 km away at 95 m, over 11 summers. [11]

An average of 794 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 6.8 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at DURAS, 4.1 km away at 112 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47020/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47020/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47020/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47020/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 47020
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 47086
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 33289
  11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

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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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Vosbles-Valfin39457 km NE18515.8No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 8 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Félix-de-Pallières30309 km E19416.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 57 % · humidity 71 %
Rives4747 km E19412.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Corquoy18297 km NE19812.7No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 54 % · humidity 86 %
Lailly89473 km NE19917.2No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 50 % · humidity 71 %
Bricqueville14519 km N15118.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 84 % · humidity 64 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Rives4747 km E19412.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Corquoy18297 km NE19812.7No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 54 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Félix-de-Pallières30309 km E19416.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 57 % · humidity 71 %
Vosbles-Valfin39457 km NE18515.8No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 8 % · humidity 50 %
Lailly89473 km NE19917.2No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 50 % · humidity 71 %
Bricqueville14519 km N15118.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 84 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Baleyssagues'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Astier479.4 km NE20311No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Lasserrade32118 km S1777.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Esclottes472.9 km N1708.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Olmet-et-Villecun34272 km E16314.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Pompogne4748 km S19215.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Larroque-sur-l'Osse3280 km S2137.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %