Ascarat

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CA du Pays Basque · INSEE 64066

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

Few services 28/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 66 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ascarat (INSEE 64066) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CA du Pays Basque. Population 348 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 28/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 66 % of the 18,020 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.68	10	6.84
Housing mix	0.87	5	4.34

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 1 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 × Café / bar (RESTAURANT EUROP CAMPING). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE MUNHO IKASTOLA). ^[4]

3 × Campsite (CAMPING NARBAITZ · EUROP CAMPING · CAMPING DE LA TRUITE). ^[4,3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Café / bar	1	RESTAURANT EUROP CAMPING	INSEE SIRENE 1 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE MUNHO IKASTOLA	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Campsite	3	CAMPING NARBAITZ · EUROP CAMPING · CAMPING DE LA TRUITE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [4,3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 283 2023: 348 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 313 (2012) → 348 (2023): 11.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 294 (1990) → 348 (2023): 18.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 182, of which 6.6 % second homes and 8.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 1.0 km SEGP — 1.2 km EBakery — 1.4 km SEPharmacy — 1.4 km SE 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 (Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port): 1.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Uhart-Cize): 1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port): 1.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port): 1.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Ascarat): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.8

Days at or below 0 °C 33.4

Muggy days a summer 11.8▸

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 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the BUSTINCE - ST JEAN weather station, 3.7 km away at 189 m; the village itself is at 169 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 12 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at BUSTINCE - ST JEAN, 3.7 km away at 189 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,362 mm of rain a year, spread over 141 days — about 9.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ST-JEAN-LE-VX, 2.7 km away at 173 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64066/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64066/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64066/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64066/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64485
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64538
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64066
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
Tousson	77	644 km NE	334	28.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 69 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Sauveur-de-Meilhan	47	177 km NE	341	28.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 88 % · humidity 64 %
Sainte-Paule	69	556 km NE	338	31.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 68 % · humidity 21 %
Villognon	16	318 km N	336	23.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 76 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Germain-d'Anxure	53	563 km N	354	29	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 91 % · humidity 29 %
Fagnon	08	858 km NE	339	26.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 41 % · humidity 14 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Sauveur-de-Meilhan	47	177 km NE	341	28.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 88 % · humidity 64 %
Villognon	16	318 km N	336	23.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 76 % · humidity 36 %
Sainte-Paule	69	556 km NE	338	31.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 68 % · humidity 21 %
Saint-Germain-d'Anxure	53	563 km N	354	29	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 91 % · humidity 29 %
Tousson	77	644 km NE	334	28.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 69 % · humidity 36 %
Fagnon	08	858 km NE	339	26.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 41 % · 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 Ascarat'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
Armendarits	64	16 km NE	398	26.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Herrère	64	58 km E	397	39.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Bretagne-d'Armagnac	32	138 km NE	408	20.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Cierzac	17	277 km N	323	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Escout	64	57 km E	423	18.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Miossens-Lanusse	64	84 km NE	288	24.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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