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Bétracq

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CC du Nord Est Béarn · INSEE 64118

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

No daily shops 5.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 11 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bétracq (INSEE 64118) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CC du Nord Est Béarn. Population 49 (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/64118-betracq

Vitality score

Vitality score 5.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 11 % of the 4,658 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 trend0.08100.76
Housing mix0.8354.14

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: 88 2023: 49 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 49 (2012) → 49 (2023): 0 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 85 (1990) → 49 (2023): -42.4 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 35, of which 8.6 % second homes and 20 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 2.3 km SE (Lascazères)Food shop — 2.8 km W (Lasserre)Primary school — 3.1 km S (Moncaup)Pharmacy — 7.9 km N (Castelnau-Rivière-Basse)GP — 8.1 km SW (Lembeye)
Bakery — 2.3 km SEFood shop — 2.8 km WPrimary school — 3.1 km SPharmacy — 7.9 km NGP — 8.1 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 (Lascazères): 2.3 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Lasserre): 2.8 km to the west (straight line). [9]

GP (Lembeye): 8.1 km to the south-west (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Castelnau-Rivière-Basse): 7.9 km to the north (straight line). [11]

Primary school (Moncaup): 3.1 km to the south (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 29 days a year at or above 30 °C and 31 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. [13]

Measured at the MONT-DISSE weather station, 7.7 km away at 156 m; the village itself is at 182 m. [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, 7.7 km away at 156 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [13]

What property sold for

No price figures: fewer than five comparable sales were registered here between 2021 and 2025. A median of two sales is not a median. [14]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64118/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64118/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64118/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64118/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 65264
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64323
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64331
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 65130
  12. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64390
  13. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
  14. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Villers-la-Combe25655 km NE4910.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 49 % · winter 1 %
Dommartin-le-Coq10651 km NE497.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 57 %
Parnay18424 km NE4916No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 61 %
Bossugan33142 km N499.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 97 %
Chef-Haut88714 km NE499.8No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 54 % · winter 36 %
Chambroncourt52684 km NE4812.4No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 51 % · winter 54 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Bossugan33142 km N499.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 97 %
Parnay18424 km NE4916No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 61 %
Dommartin-le-Coq10651 km NE497.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 57 %
Villers-la-Combe25655 km NE4910.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 49 % · winter 1 %
Chambroncourt52684 km NE4812.4No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 51 % · winter 54 %
Chef-Haut88714 km NE499.8No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 54 % · winter 36 %

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