Ainhoa

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CA du Pays Basque · INSEE 64014

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

Partly served 45.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 86 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ainhoa (INSEE 64014) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CA du Pays Basque. Population 672 (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/64014-ainhoa

Vitality score

Vitality score 45.5/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 86 % of the 16,597 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.75	20	14.97
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.75	10	7.47
Housing mix	0.62	5	3.08

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (PIERRE OTEIZA). ^[4]

2 × Restaurant (UR HEGIAN · CHEZ COUCOU). ^[4,3]

1 × Café / bar (AUBERGE ALZATE). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (AINHOA RP). ^[4]

4 × Hotel (HOTEL RESTAURANT ITHURRIA · HOTEL RESTAURANT ARGI-EDER · HOTEL UR HEGIAN · OPPOCA). ^[4,3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	PIERRE OTEIZA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	2	UR HEGIAN · CHEZ COUCOU	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,3]
Café / bar	1	AUBERGE ALZATE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	1	AINHOA RP	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	4	HOTEL RESTAURANT ITHURRIA · HOTEL RESTAURANT ARGI-EDER · HOTEL UR HEGIAN · OPPOCA	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 579 peak 2017: 672 2023: 672 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 669 (2012) → 672 (2023): 0.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 539 (1990) → 672 (2023): 24.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 454, of which 19.2 % second homes and 13.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 1.1 km SEBakery — 4.4 km NEGP — 5.1 km WPharmacy — 5.1 km NE 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 (Souraïde): 4.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Ainhoa): 1.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Sare): 5.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Espelette): 5.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Ainhoa): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 23.3

Days at or below 0 °C 16.6▸

Muggy days a summer 15.8▸

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 23 days a year at or above 30 °C and 17 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ESPELETTE weather station, 6.6 km away at 97 m; the village itself is at 122 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 16 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at SOCOA, 18.1 km away at 21 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 101 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 1,697 mm of rain a year, spread over 145 days — about 11.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ESPELETTE, 6.6 km away at 97 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 — 64014/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64014/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64014/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64014/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64527
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64014
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64504
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64213
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
Préty	71	621 km NE	582	42.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 34 % · humidity 29 %
Fontaine-Simon	28	610 km N	888	42.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 47 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Quirin	57	886 km NE	692	35.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 11 % · humidity 0 %
Mirmande	26	530 km E	611	55.5	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 88 % · humidity 7 %
Concoret	56	532 km N	758	53.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 72 % · humidity 0 %
Thiéfosse	88	823 km NE	593	33	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 11 % · humidity 0 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Mirmande	26	530 km E	611	55.5	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 88 % · humidity 7 %
Concoret	56	532 km N	758	53.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 72 % · humidity 0 %
Fontaine-Simon	28	610 km N	888	42.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 47 % · humidity 0 %
Préty	71	621 km NE	582	42.8	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 34 % · humidity 29 %
Thiéfosse	88	823 km NE	593	33	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 11 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Quirin	57	886 km NE	692	35.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 11 % · humidity 0 %

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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 Ainhoa'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
Orist	40	45 km NE	814	42.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Argagnon	64	68 km E	690	36.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Halsou	64	9.8 km NE	589	29.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Lahourcade	64	71 km E	709	26	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Coudures	40	90 km NE	571	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Louhossoa	64	12 km E	886	54.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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