Monbalen

Lot-et-Garonne · CA du Grand Villeneuvois · INSEE 47171

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

Few services 24.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 44 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Monbalen (INSEE 47171) is in Lot-et-Garonne (47), part of CA du Grand Villeneuvois. Population 451 (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/47171-monbalen

Vitality score

Vitality score 24.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 44 % of the 17,929 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	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.83	5	4.13

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 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”.

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

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE). ^[3]

1 × Campsite (CRINIERE AU VENT). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, 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 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE	INSEE BPE 1 [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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	1	CRINIERE AU VENT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 297 peak 2007: 456 2023: 451 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 410 (2012) → 451 (2023): 10 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 298 (1990) → 451 (2023): 51.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 229, of which 8.7 % second homes and 8.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 3.5 km SEGP — 3.7 km SEBakery — 3.9 km SEPharmacy — 9.7 km NW 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): 3.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Laroque-Timbaut): 3.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Laroque-Timbaut): 3.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Pujols): 9.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Monbalen): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

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. ^[11]

Measured at the LAROQUE-TIMBAUT weather station, 6 km away at 186 m; the village itself is at 199 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 9 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at PRAYSSAS, 13.4 km away at 196 m, over 16 summers. ^[11]

An average of 816 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LAROQUE-TIMBAUT, 6 km away at 186 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47171/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47171/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47171/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 47171/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 47138
INSEE BPE 2025 — 47215
INSEE BPE 2025 — 47171
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
Gron	18	349 km NE	470	22.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 62 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Léger-aux-Bois	76	617 km N	474	17.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 5 % · winter 100 % · humidity 43 %
Reinhardsmunster	67	699 km NE	430	20.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 65 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Lézer	65	119 km SW	435	20.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Auberville-la-Renault	76	598 km N	449	22.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 8 % · winter 95 %
Donzacq	40	143 km SW	452	20.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 92 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Lézer	65	119 km SW	435	20.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Donzacq	40	143 km SW	452	20.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 92 %
Gron	18	349 km NE	470	22.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 62 % · humidity 57 %
Auberville-la-Renault	76	598 km N	449	22.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 8 % · winter 95 %
Saint-Léger-aux-Bois	76	617 km N	474	17.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 5 % · winter 100 % · humidity 43 %
Reinhardsmunster	67	699 km NE	430	20.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 65 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Monbalen'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-Geours-d'Auribat	40	140 km SW	409	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Toutens	31	123 km SE	430	17.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Lux	31	128 km SE	342	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Gousse	40	144 km SW	275	24	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Marcel-Paulel	31	100 km SE	483	16.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Loupiac	81	99 km SE	445	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %

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