Ainharp

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CA du Pays Basque · INSEE 64012

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

No daily shops 16.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 58 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ainharp (INSEE 64012) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CA du Pays Basque. Population 131 (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/64012-ainharp

Vitality score

Vitality score 16.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 58 % of the 12,956 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	0.31	10	3.14
Housing mix	0.89	5	4.46

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 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]

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, 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 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	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	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: 194 2023: 131 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 143 (2012) → 131 (2023): -8.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 161 (1990) → 131 (2023): -18.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 74, of which 5.4 % second homes and 16.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 4.2 km NWFood shop — 5.2 km SEPharmacy — 5.2 km SEGP — 5.7 km SE 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 (Lohitzun-Oyhercq): 4.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Mauléon-Licharre): 5.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Mauléon-Licharre): 5.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Mauléon-Licharre): 5.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Ainharp): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 15.5

Days at or below 0 °C 44.8

Muggy days a summer 5.2

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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 45 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the AICIRITS weather station, 11.1 km away at 75 m; the village itself is at 348 m. ^[11]

The village sits 273 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 4.94 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at AICIRITS, 11.1 km away at 75 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 273 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 1,207 mm of rain a year, spread over 131 days — about 9.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at AICIRITS, 11.1 km away at 75 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 — 64012/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64012/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64012/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64012/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64345
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64371
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64012
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
Orriule	64	17 km N	140	17.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 92 % · humidity 50 %
Flagy	70	742 km NE	136	16.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 59 % · humidity 79 %
Veilhes	81	226 km E	143	24.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Foy-la-Longue	33	163 km N	139	18.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Sère-Rustaing	65	99 km E	127	19.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Brion	38	548 km NE	141	19	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 85 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Orriule	64	17 km N	140	17.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 92 % · humidity 50 %
Sère-Rustaing	65	99 km E	127	19.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 68 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Foy-la-Longue	33	163 km N	139	18.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Veilhes	81	226 km E	143	24.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Brion	38	548 km NE	141	19	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 85 % · humidity 64 %
Flagy	70	742 km NE	136	16.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 59 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Ainharp'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-Grégoire-d'Ardennes	17	252 km N	143	11.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Cizos	65	115 km E	136	11.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Libaros	65	107 km E	133	7.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Couziers	37	441 km N	121	12.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Trayes	79	383 km N	111	9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Santilly	71	579 km NE	156	15.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

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