Castella

Lot-et-Garonne · CA du Grand Villeneuvois · INSEE 47053

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

Few services 24.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 55 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Castella (INSEE 47053) is in Lot-et-Garonne (47), part of CA du Grand Villeneuvois. Population 370 (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/47053-castella

Vitality score

Vitality score 24.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 55 % of the 18,089 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.9	10	9.02
Housing mix	0.83	5	4.14

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 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, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (POINT-LECTURE CASTELLA). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), 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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	1	POINT-LECTURE CASTELLA	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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: 228 2023: 370 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 343 (2012) → 370 (2023): 7.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 264 (1990) → 370 (2023): 40.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 186, of which 8.6 % second homes and 6.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 6.2 km WFood shop — 6.8 km SEBakery — 7.2 km SEPharmacy — 8.9 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 (Laroque-Timbaut): 7.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Laroque-Timbaut): 6.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Laugnac): 6.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Pujols): 8.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Castella): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 40.7

Days at or below 0 °C 30.5

Muggy days a summer 8.8

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 41 days a year at or above 30 °C and 31 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the LAROQUE-TIMBAUT weather station, 9 km away at 186 m; the village itself is at 197 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 9 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at PRAYSSAS, 9 km away at 196 m, over 16 summers. ^[12]

An average of 816 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at LAROQUE-TIMBAUT, 9 km away at 186 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47053/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47053/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47053/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47053/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 47138
INSEE BPE 2025 — 47140
INSEE BPE 2025 — 47215
INSEE BPE 2025 — 47053
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
La Cour-Marigny	45	425 km N	379	24.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 53 % · humidity 43 %
Le Montellier	01	388 km NE	336	25.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 69 % · humidity 50 %
Trémons	47	20 km NE	409	22.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Miramont-d'Astarac	32	87 km S	357	22.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Armaillé	49	403 km N	320	20.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 26 % · winter 95 %
Rocles	03	298 km NE	326	19.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 76 % · humidity 43 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Trémons	47	20 km NE	409	22.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Miramont-d'Astarac	32	87 km S	357	22.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Rocles	03	298 km NE	326	19.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 76 % · humidity 43 %
Le Montellier	01	388 km NE	336	25.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 69 % · humidity 50 %
Armaillé	49	403 km N	320	20.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 26 % · winter 95 %
La Cour-Marigny	45	425 km N	379	24.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 53 % · humidity 43 %

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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 Castella'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-Gein	40	95 km SW	409	17.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Cauna	40	121 km SW	418	19.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Pergain-Taillac	32	29 km S	336	27.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Cauzac	47	11 km E	420	20.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Auradou	47	10 km E	405	21	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Mézard	32	33 km S	240	19.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %

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