Arette

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CC du Haut Béarn · INSEE 64040

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

Partly served 54.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 90 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Arette (INSEE 64040) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CC du Haut Béarn. Population 1,032 (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/64040-arette

Vitality score

Vitality score 54.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 90 % of the 14,114 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	0.47	25	11.83
Social	0.93	20	18.68
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.63	10	6.29
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.41	10	4.08
Housing mix	0	5	0

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 2 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 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

2 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE BASCO BEARNAISE · PRESTAPRADO). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (EPICERIE DE LA MARMOTTE). ^[3,4]

5 × Restaurant (LE PETIT SAINT MARTIN · VALONNE STEEVE · GOUAILLARDEU SARL · LE CHALET). ^[3,4]

6 × Café / bar (SNOW BAR 64 · LE CAYOLAR · MI-KE BAR TABAC). ^[4]

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

1 × Collège (COLLEGE DE BARETOUS). ^[3]

4 × GP (médecin généraliste) (BENEDICTE RENARD, MÉDECIN · MARIE-CHRISTINE HARGUINDEGUY-GARAT, MÉDECIN · ANNE HOURDILLE, MÉDECIN · JEAN-FRANCOIS TRISTAN, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PROPHARMACIE LA PIERRE SAINT MARTIN). ^[3]

2 × Post office / agence postale (ARETTE LA PIERRE ST MARTIN AP · ARETTE LPAC AP). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE DES SPORTS NELSON PAILLOU). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (EDELWEISS). ^[3,4]

3 × Hotel (HOTEL DU PIC D'ANIE). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING ARETTE LA PIERRE ST MARTIN). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 3 × Restaurant, 2 × Hotel.

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	2	BOUCHERIE BASCO BEARNAISE · PRESTAPRADO	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	EPICERIE DE LA MARMOTTE	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	5	LE PETIT SAINT MARTIN · VALONNE STEEVE · GOUAILLARDEU SARL · LE CHALET	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 7 [3,4]
Café / bar	6	SNOW BAR 64 · LE CAYOLAR · MI-KE BAR TABAC	INSEE SIRENE 6 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE DE BARETOUS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	4	BENEDICTE RENARD, MÉDECIN · MARIE-CHRISTINE HARGUINDEGUY-GARAT, MÉDECIN · ANNE HOURDILLE, MÉDECIN · JEAN-FRANCOIS TRISTAN, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PROPHARMACIE LA PIERRE SAINT MARTIN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	2	ARETTE LA PIERRE ST MARTIN AP · ARETTE LPAC AP	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	SALLE DES SPORTS NELSON PAILLOU	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1	EDELWEISS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	3	HOTEL DU PIC D'ANIE	INSEE SIRENE 3 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	1	CAMPING ARETTE LA PIERRE ST MARTIN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,055 peak 1975: 1,166 2023: 1,032 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,068 (2012) → 1,032 (2023): -3.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,137 (1990) → 1,032 (2023): -9.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,451, of which 62.3 % second homes and 2.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 3.1 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 (Arette): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

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

GP (Arette): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Aramits): 3.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Arette): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 17.9

Days at or below 0 °C 37.8

Muggy days a summer 9.4

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 18 days a year at or above 30 °C and 38 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the OLORON-STE-MARI weather station, 13.2 km away at 235 m; the village itself is at 325 m. ^[10]

The village sits 90 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 9 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at OLORON, 13.2 km away at 295 m, over 18 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,620 mm of rain a year, spread over 154 days — about 10.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ARETTE, 2 km away at 426 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64040/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64040/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64040/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64040/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64040
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64029
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
La Salvetat-sur-Agout	34	282 km E	1,108	63.2	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 97 % · humidity 43 %
Vico	2A	785 km E	999	80.5	Well served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 70 % · humidity 50 %
Mont Lozère et Goulet	48	389 km NE	1,098	51.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 46 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse	38	577 km NE	1,003	59.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 26 % · humidity 36 %
Ancelle	05	580 km E	1,017	62	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 0 % · humidity 36 %
Gorges du Tarn Causses	48	360 km NE	881	75	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 82 % · humidity 43 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Salvetat-sur-Agout	34	282 km E	1,108	63.2	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 97 % · humidity 43 %
Gorges du Tarn Causses	48	360 km NE	881	75	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 82 % · humidity 43 %
Mont Lozère et Goulet	48	389 km NE	1,098	51.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 46 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse	38	577 km NE	1,003	59.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 26 % · humidity 36 %
Ancelle	05	580 km E	1,017	62	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 0 % · humidity 36 %
Vico	2A	785 km E	999	80.5	Well served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 70 % · 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 Arette'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-Fort-sur-Gironde	17	263 km N	912	49.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Tesson	17	282 km N	1,148	49.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Montolieu	11	239 km E	829	60.4	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Corgnac-sur-l'Isle	24	286 km NE	854	48.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Mortagne-sur-Gironde	17	265 km N	911	71.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Charenton-du-Cher	18	483 km NE	984	53.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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