Argelos

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CC des Luys en Béarn · INSEE 64043

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

Few services 22.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 60 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Argelos (INSEE 64043) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CC des Luys en Béarn. Population 263 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 22.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 60 % of the 17,415 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	0.84	10	8.35
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.67

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 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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: 128 peak 2017: 282 2023: 263 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 250 (2012) → 263 (2023): 5.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 197 (1990) → 263 (2023): 33.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 122, of which 3.3 % second homes and 5.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.1 km NFood shop — 2.2 km SEPharmacy — 2.2 km NGP — 6.2 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 (Thèze): 2.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Astis): 2.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Sauvagnon): 6.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Thèze): 2.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 21

Days at or below 0 °C 27.4

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 27 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the PAU-UZEIN weather station, 9.3 km away at 183 m; the village itself is at 215 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at PAU-UZEIN, 9.3 km away at 183 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 1,152 mm of rain a year, spread over 134 days — about 8.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ARGELOS, 0.9 km away at 218 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 — 64043/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64043/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64043/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64043/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64536
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64070
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64511
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64043
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
Beaupuy	82	125 km E	273	24.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 85 % · humidity 36 %
Allas-Champagne	17	225 km N	283	23.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 50 %
Sainte-Suzanne	09	143 km E	259	23.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 86 %
Druy-Parigny	58	479 km NE	298	17.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 46 % · humidity 21 %
Épineu-le-Chevreuil	72	510 km N	286	19.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 82 % · humidity 14 %
Cours-de-Monségur	33	139 km N	237	18.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 66 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Beaupuy	82	125 km E	273	24.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 85 % · humidity 36 %
Cours-de-Monségur	33	139 km N	237	18.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 66 % · humidity 57 %
Sainte-Suzanne	09	143 km E	259	23.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 86 %
Allas-Champagne	17	225 km N	283	23.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 50 %
Druy-Parigny	58	479 km NE	298	17.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 46 % · humidity 21 %
Épineu-le-Chevreuil	72	510 km N	286	19.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 82 % · humidity 14 %

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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 Argelos'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
Toujouse	32	45 km N	293	17.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Pagolle	64	58 km SW	246	10	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Amorots-Succos	64	62 km W	219	11	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Ogenne-Camptort	64	33 km SW	241	11.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Auga	64	3.9 km NW	189	15.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Buanes	40	29 km N	236	14.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

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