Banca

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CA du Pays Basque · INSEE 64092

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

Few services 23.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 50 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Banca (INSEE 64092) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CA du Pays Basque. Population 358 (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/64092-banca

Vitality score

Vitality score 23.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 50 % of the 18,016 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	0.34	10	3.4
Housing mix	0.74	5	3.72

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. ^[4]

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

1 × Hotel (HOTEL RESTAURANT ERREGUINA). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE 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	1	HOTEL RESTAURANT ERREGUINA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 634 2023: 358 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 332 (2012) → 358 (2023): 7.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 426 (1990) → 358 (2023): -16 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 187, of which 12.8 % second homes and 13.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 2.2 km EFood shop — 3.7 km SWPharmacy — 5.9 km NEBakery — 10.0 km E 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 (Lasse): 10 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Aldudes): 3.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry): 2.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry): 5.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Banca): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 27.6

Days at or below 0 °C 25.6

Muggy days a summer 8.7

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 28 days a year at or above 30 °C and 26 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the BANCA weather station, 0.3 km away at 253 m; the village itself is at 272 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 9 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at BUSTINCE - ST JEAN, 14.3 km away at 189 m, over 21 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 83 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 1,776 mm of rain a year, spread over 148 days — about 12 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at BANCA, 0.3 km away at 253 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 — 64092/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64092/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64092/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64092/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64322
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64016
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64477
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64092
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
Douchapt	24	276 km NE	353	29.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 79 %
Molières	46	323 km NE	357	25.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 76 % · humidity 50 %
Le Plessis-Sainte-Opportune	27	683 km N	351	22.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 51 % · winter 55 %
La Neuville-aux-Joûtes	08	868 km NE	354	17.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 46 % · winter 69 %
Saint-Aubin-les-Forges	58	572 km NE	376	17.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 43 % · humidity 43 %
Montbray	50	640 km N	340	21.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 100 % · humidity 43 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Douchapt	24	276 km NE	353	29.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 79 %
Molières	46	323 km NE	357	25.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 76 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Aubin-les-Forges	58	572 km NE	376	17.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 43 % · humidity 43 %
Montbray	50	640 km N	340	21.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 100 % · humidity 43 %
Le Plessis-Sainte-Opportune	27	683 km N	351	22.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 51 % · winter 55 %
La Neuville-aux-Joûtes	08	868 km NE	354	17.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 46 % · winter 69 %

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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 Banca'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-Pierre-sur-Dropt	47	211 km NE	359	23.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Doulezon	33	215 km NE	286	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Ferme	33	209 km NE	328	18.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Mont	32	115 km NE	317	23.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Paulhiac	47	238 km NE	304	21	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Ahaxe-Alciette-Bascassan	64	17 km E	261	16.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %

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