Argagnon

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CC de Lacq-Orthez · INSEE 64042

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

Few services 36.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 67 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Argagnon (INSEE 64042) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CC de Lacq-Orthez. Population 690 (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/64042-argagnon

Vitality score

Vitality score 36.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 67 % of the 16,465 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.49	10	4.93
Housing mix	0.86	5	4.28

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AU FOURNIL D'ARGAGNON). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LES FOUEES DES PYRENEES · LA BULLE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (ARGAGNON AP). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE MULTI SPORTS). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	AU FOURNIL D'ARGAGNON	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	2	LES FOUEES DES PYRENEES · LA BULLE	INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	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	1	ARGAGNON AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	SALLE MULTI SPORTS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	2		INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 468 peak 2012: 729 2023: 690 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 729 (2012) → 690 (2023): -5.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 695 (1990) → 690 (2023): -0.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 359, of which 7.2 % second homes and 5.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 2.3 km SGP — 2.4 km SWPharmacy — 2.4 km SW 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 (Argagnon): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Maslacq): 2.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Maslacq): 2.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Maslacq): 2.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Argagnon): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 25.7

Days at or below 0 °C 27.3

Muggy days a summer 16.7▸

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 26 days a year at or above 30 °C and 27 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ORTHEZ weather station, 7.5 km away at 96 m; the village itself is at 103 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 17 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ORTHEZ, 7.5 km away at 96 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,148 mm of rain a year, spread over 128 days — about 9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ARGAGNON, 0.1 km away at 103 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 — 64042/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64042/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64042/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64042/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64042
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64367
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
Pujo	65	62 km E	671	37.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 72 % · humidity 50 %
Vy-lès-Lure	70	724 km NE	704	40.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 39 % · humidity 0 %
Rieucros	09	203 km E	718	45.1	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 95 % · humidity 43 %
Largeasse	79	360 km N	759	33	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 73 % · humidity 7 %
Saint-Amour-Bellevue	71	528 km NE	609	39.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 69 % · humidity 0 %
Sommepy-Tahure	51	759 km NE	663	37.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 54 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Pujo	65	62 km E	671	37.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 72 % · humidity 50 %
Rieucros	09	203 km E	718	45.1	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 95 % · humidity 43 %
Largeasse	79	360 km N	759	33	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 73 % · humidity 7 %
Saint-Amour-Bellevue	71	528 km NE	609	39.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 69 % · humidity 0 %
Vy-lès-Lure	70	724 km NE	704	40.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 39 % · humidity 0 %
Sommepy-Tahure	51	759 km NE	663	37.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 54 %

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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 Argagnon'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
Marcenais	33	180 km N	863	34	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Cagnotte	40	35 km NW	784	26.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Came	64	34 km W	1,024	34.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Pandelon	40	37 km NW	749	28.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Cauneille	40	32 km W	804	44.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Genès-de-Fronsac	33	176 km N	994	46.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %

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