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Arrosès

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CC du Nord Est Béarn · INSEE 64056

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

Few services 20.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 77 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Arrosès (INSEE 64056) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CC du Nord Est Béarn. Population 136 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/64056-arroses

Vitality score

Vitality score 20.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 77 % of the 13,295 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0.43208.65
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture0.3251.58
Population trend0.44104.38
Housing mix0.6353.14

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 1 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 0 of 3
Health 0 of 4
Public services 0 of 1
Culture 1 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. [3,4]

2 × Restaurant (OBSIDIENNE). [3,4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE D'ARROSÈS). [3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant2OBSIDIENNEINSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library1BIBLIOTHÈQUE D'ARROSÈSINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 203 2023: 136 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 147 (2012) → 136 (2023): -7.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 145 (1990) → 136 (2023): -6.2 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 86, of which 18.6 % second homes and 7 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

10 km20 kmPrimary school — 2.3 km W (Aurions-Idernes)Food shop — 3.3 km SE (Lasserre)Bakery — 4.3 km E (Madiran)Pharmacy — 8.1 km NE (Castelnau-Rivière-Basse)GP — 10.1 km S (Lembeye)
Primary school — 2.3 km WFood shop — 3.3 km SEBakery — 4.3 km EPharmacy — 8.1 km NEGP — 10.1 km S 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 (Madiran): 4.3 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Lasserre): 3.3 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

GP (Lembeye): 10.1 km to the south (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Castelnau-Rivière-Basse): 8.1 km to the north-east (straight line). [11]

Primary school (Aurions-Idernes): 2.3 km to the west (straight line). [12]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 33 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. [13]

Measured at the MONT-DISSE weather station, 2.2 km away at 156 m; the village itself is at 231 m. [13]

The village sits 75 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. [13]

An average of 1,004 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 7.9 mm on a day it rains. [13]

Rainfall measured at MONT-DISSE, 2.2 km away at 156 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64056/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64056/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64056/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64056/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 65296
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64323
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64331
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 65130
  12. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64079
  13. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Pierre15286 km NE14618.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 30 %
Châtelperron03433 km NE13014.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 100 % · winter 88 %
La Chomette43341 km NE14320.8Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 9 %
Saint-Michel-de-Veisse23318 km NE16518.3No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 11 %
Saint-Didier-en-Brionnais71456 km NE12117.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 82 %
Sainte-Agathe63389 km NE17118.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 28 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Pierre15286 km NE14618.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 30 %
Saint-Michel-de-Veisse23318 km NE16518.3No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 11 %
La Chomette43341 km NE14320.8Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 9 %
Sainte-Agathe63389 km NE17118.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 28 %
Châtelperron03433 km NE13014.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 100 % · winter 88 %
Saint-Didier-en-Brionnais71456 km NE12117.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 82 %

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