Houeillès

Lot-et-Garonne · CC des Coteaux et Landes de Gascogne · INSEE 47119

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

Few services 35.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 71 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Houeillès (INSEE 47119) is in Lot-et-Garonne (47), part of CC des Coteaux et Landes de Gascogne. Population 559 (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/47119-houeilles

Vitality score

Vitality score 35.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 71 % of the 17,438 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.38	10	3.82
Housing mix	0.62	5	3.11

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (L ESCALE BOULANGERE). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (CHEZ BEBEW). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE GARCON). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (HOUEILLES AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (SORIA ANTONIA). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette).

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	L ESCALE BOULANGERE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	CHEZ BEBEW	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE GARCON	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	HOUEILLES AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE	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	SORIA ANTONIA	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 744 2023: 559 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 594 (2012) → 559 (2023): -5.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 634 (1990) → 559 (2023): -11.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 440, of which 18.9 % second homes and 12.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, Pharmacy GP — 13.7 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 (Houeillès): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Houeillès): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Casteljaloux): 13.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Houeillès): 0.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Houeillès): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 36.2

Days at or below 0 °C 48.5

Muggy days a summer 6

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 36 days a year at or above 30 °C and 49 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the HOUEILLES weather station, 0.7 km away at 150 m; the village itself is at 149 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at FARGUES-SUR-OURBISE, 13.1 km away at 124 m, over 11 summers. ^[10]

An average of 868 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at HOUEILLES, 0.7 km away at 150 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

What property sold for

63 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 123,000 € — 1,098 € per m² of built surface. ^[11]

The median across Lot-et-Garonne is 1,182 € per m², so this commune sits about level with it. ^[11]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47119/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47119/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47119/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47119/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 47119
INSEE BPE 2025 — 47052
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Veaugues	18	401 km NE	593	41.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 97 % · humidity 71 %
Joncy	71	444 km NE	510	38.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 81 % · humidity 79 %
Châtelus-Malvaleix	23	282 km NE	545	49.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 64 % · humidity 57 %
Comps-la-Grand-Ville	12	202 km E	636	35.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 72 %
Orbais-l'Abbaye	51	598 km NE	505	45.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 38 % · winter 93 %
Ceaux-en-Loudun	86	315 km N	560	33.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 80 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Comps-la-Grand-Ville	12	202 km E	636	35.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 72 %
Châtelus-Malvaleix	23	282 km NE	545	49.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 64 % · humidity 57 %
Ceaux-en-Loudun	86	315 km N	560	33.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 80 % · humidity 71 %
Veaugues	18	401 km NE	593	41.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 97 % · humidity 71 %
Joncy	71	444 km NE	510	38.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 81 % · humidity 79 %
Orbais-l'Abbaye	51	598 km NE	505	45.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 38 % · winter 93 %

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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 Houeillès'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
Sauveterre-la-Lémance	47	90 km NE	563	45.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Uzeste	33	39 km NW	462	37.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Tombebœuf	47	48 km NE	443	44.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Sauzet	46	100 km E	531	56	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Albine	81	217 km E	512	24.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Commensacq	40	68 km W	440	24.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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