Arbus

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CA Pau Béarn Pyrénées · INSEE 64037

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

Few services 24.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 10 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Arbus (INSEE 64037) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CA Pau Béarn Pyrénées. Population 1,226 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/64037-arbus

Vitality score

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

Confidence: high.

Better served than 10 % of the 13,081 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	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.77	10	7.7
Housing mix	0.98	5	4.89

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (FERME AUBERGE BISCAR). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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	1	FERME AUBERGE BISCAR	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	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 SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 470 2023: 1,226 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,106 (2012) → 1,226 (2023): 10.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 965 (1990) → 1,226 (2023): 27 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 548, of which 1.1 % second homes and 4.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 2.2 km SEBakery — 2.6 km NEFood shop — 2.6 km NEPharmacy — 3.0 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 (Poey-de-Lescar): 2.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Poey-de-Lescar): 2.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Artiguelouve): 2.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Denguin): 3 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Arbus): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 31.8

Days at or below 0 °C 14.4▸

Muggy days a summer 12.9▸

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 32 days a year at or above 30 °C and 14 days at or below 0 °C, over 28 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the MONEIN weather station, 4.3 km away at 241 m; the village itself is at 134 m. ^[12]

The village sits 107 m below 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 13 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at PAU-UZEIN, 9.2 km away at 183 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 1,219 mm of rain a year, spread over 132 days — about 9.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at MONEIN, 4.3 km away at 241 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 — 64037/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64037/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64037/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64037/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64448
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64060
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64198
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64037
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
Louvigné	53	525 km N	1,193	26.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 59 % · humidity 14 %
Raedersheim	68	789 km NE	1,173	29.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 34 % · humidity 14 %
Manéglise	76	695 km N	1,292	26.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 72 % · humidity 14 %
Bining	57	870 km NE	1,162	20.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 1 % · humidity 7 %
Aspach	68	770 km NE	1,138	27.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 31 % · humidity 21 %
Quiers-sur-Bezonde	45	567 km NE	1,183	26.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Louvigné	53	525 km N	1,193	26.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 59 % · humidity 14 %
Quiers-sur-Bezonde	45	567 km NE	1,183	26.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 50 %
Manéglise	76	695 km N	1,292	26.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 72 % · humidity 14 %
Aspach	68	770 km NE	1,138	27.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 31 % · humidity 21 %
Raedersheim	68	789 km NE	1,173	29.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 34 % · humidity 14 %
Bining	57	870 km NE	1,162	20.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 1 % · humidity 7 %

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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 Arbus'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
Meillon	64	17 km SE	957	32.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Tresserre	66	285 km E	1,166	28.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Lée	64	18 km E	1,271	34.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Rontignon	64	16 km SE	875	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Corbère-les-Cabanes	66	270 km E	1,213	39.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Opoul-Périllos	66	279 km E	1,239	44.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

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