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Bassillon-Vauzé

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CC du Nord Est Béarn · INSEE 64098

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 8.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 22 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bassillon-Vauzé (INSEE 64098) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CC du Nord Est Béarn. Population 64 (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/64098-bassillon-vauze

Vitality score

Vitality score 8.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 22 % of the 6,681 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
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.34103.42
Housing mix0.7453.72

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. [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]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [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: 75 peak 1982: 77 2023: 64 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 72 (2012) → 64 (2023): -11.1 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 76 (1990) → 64 (2023): -15.8 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 39, of which 12.8 % second homes and 12.8 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 2.7 km NE (Moncaup)GP — 3.0 km SW (Lembeye)Bakery — 3.5 km SW (Lembeye)Pharmacy — 3.5 km SW (Lembeye)Food shop — 6.2 km N (Lasserre)
Primary school — 2.7 km NEGP — 3.0 km SWBakery — 3.5 km SWPharmacy — 3.5 km SWFood shop — 6.2 km N 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 (Lembeye): 3.5 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Lasserre): 6.2 km to the north (straight line). [9]

GP (Lembeye): 3 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Lembeye): 3.5 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Moncaup): 2.7 km to the north-east (straight line). [10]

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 16 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the LEMBEYE weather station, 3.2 km away at 310 m; the village itself is at 213 m. [11]

The village sits 97 m below 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. [11]

An average of 1,091 mm of rain a year, spread over 133 days — about 8.2 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at LEMBEYE, 3.2 km away at 310 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64098/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64098/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64098/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64098/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64331
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64323
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64390
  11. 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
Castéra-Vignoles3172 km E649.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 51 %
La Haye-Bellefond50620 km N6310.5No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 49 % · winter 95 %
Bassoncourt52673 km NE628No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 12 %
Quincy-sous-le-Mont02707 km N6216.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 53 %
Vaucourt54779 km NE648No daily shopsno figures
Sauvimont3284 km E6516No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Castéra-Vignoles3172 km E649.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 51 %
Sauvimont3284 km E6516No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 93 %
La Haye-Bellefond50620 km N6310.5No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 49 % · winter 95 %
Bassoncourt52673 km NE628No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 12 %
Quincy-sous-le-Mont02707 km N6216.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 53 %
Vaucourt54779 km NE648No daily shopsno figures

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