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Fréchou

Lot-et-Garonne · CC Albret Communauté · INSEE 47103

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 8.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 5 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Fréchou (INSEE 47103) is in Lot-et-Garonne (47), part of CC Albret Communauté. Population 220 (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/47103-frechou

Vitality score

Vitality score 8.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 5 % of the 16,584 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 food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.33103.33
Housing mix0.7353.64

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 1 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

1 × Hairdresser (FILLES ET GARCONS). [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), 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)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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]
Hairdresser1FILLES ET GARCONSINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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: 303 2023: 220 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 204 (2012) → 220 (2023): 7.8 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 264 (1990) → 220 (2023): -16.7 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 132, of which 13.6 % second homes and 9.8 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 4.1 km SE (Moncrabeau)Food shop — 4.8 km N (Nérac)Primary school — 5.1 km N (Nérac)GP — 5.7 km N (Nérac)Pharmacy — 6.0 km SW (Mézin)
Bakery — 4.1 km SEFood shop — 4.8 km NPrimary school — 5.1 km NGP — 5.7 km NPharmacy — 6.0 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 (Moncrabeau): 4.1 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Nérac): 4.8 km to the north (straight line). [9]

GP (Nérac): 5.7 km to the north (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Mézin): 6 km to the south-west (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Nérac): 5.1 km to the north (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 37 days a year at or above 30 °C and 38 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the NERAC - MAN weather station, 3 km away at 80 m; the village itself is at 108 m. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at FARGUES-SUR-OURBISE, 20 km away at 124 m, over 11 summers. [11]

An average of 732 mm of rain a year, spread over 111 days — about 6.6 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at NERAC - MAN, 3 km away at 80 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 — 47103/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47103/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47103/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47103/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 47174
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 47195
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 47167
  11. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Châtaincourt28517 km N2219.4No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 86 % · humidity 57 %
Blomard03322 km NE2229.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 81 % · humidity 64 %
Taxat-Senat03323 km NE22210.7No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 70 % · humidity 64 %
Maillet36296 km N2248.4No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 81 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Bonnet-de-Four03320 km NE22710.1No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 88 % · humidity 64 %
Ladevèze-Rivière3263 km S2239.3No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 72 % · humidity 64 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Ladevèze-Rivière3263 km S2239.3No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 72 % · humidity 64 %
Maillet36296 km N2248.4No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 81 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Bonnet-de-Four03320 km NE22710.1No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 88 % · humidity 64 %
Blomard03322 km NE2229.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 81 % · humidity 64 %
Taxat-Senat03323 km NE22210.7No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 70 % · humidity 64 %
Châtaincourt28517 km N2219.4No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 86 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Fréchou'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
Savignac-de-Duras4769 km N21910.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Gaudiès09152 km SE23514.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Coulx4744 km N2568.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Boussan31104 km SE22710.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Belcastel81125 km E21613.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Pompogne4729 km NW19215.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %