Borce

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CC du Haut Béarn · INSEE 64136

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

No daily shops 8.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 12 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Borce (INSEE 64136) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CC du Haut Béarn. Population 112 (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/64136-borce

Vitality score

Vitality score 8.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 12 % of the 11,611 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.07	10	0.74
Housing mix	0	5	0

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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”.

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

1 × Café / bar (AUBERGE DE L'OURS). ^[4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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

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 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	AUBERGE DE L'OURS	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 245 2023: 112 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 150 (2012) → 112 (2023): -25.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 195 (1990) → 112 (2023): -42.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 163, of which 64.4 % second homes and 3.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 0.6 km NFood shop — 7.2 km NGP — 10.3 km NBakery — 10.5 km NPharmacy — 16.1 km NW 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 (Bedous): 10.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Accous): 7.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Bedous): 10.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Arette): 16.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Etsaut): 0.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 13

Days at or below 0 °C 56.4

Muggy days a summer 0.5

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 56 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ACCOUS weather station, 5.1 km away at 495 m; the village itself is at 640 m. ^[12]

The village sits 145 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at URDOS RN134, 9.4 km away at 1,074 m, over 13 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 434 m above 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 1,744 mm of rain a year, spread over 154 days — about 11.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ACCOUS, 5.1 km away at 495 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 — 64136/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64136/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64136/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64136/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64104
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64006
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64040
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64223
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
Les Forges	79	406 km N	125	12	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 86 %
Saint-Vert	43	427 km NE	108	14.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 50 % · humidity 93 %
Poggiolo	2A	781 km E	104	17.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Pébrac	43	403 km NE	113	9.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 45 % · humidity 93 %
Beaulieu	15	375 km NE	84	9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 54 %
Sainte-Marguerite-Lafigère	07	406 km NE	111	8.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 50 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Beaulieu	15	375 km NE	84	9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 54 %
Pébrac	43	403 km NE	113	9.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 45 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Marguerite-Lafigère	07	406 km NE	111	8.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 50 % · humidity 93 %
Les Forges	79	406 km N	125	12	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 86 %
Saint-Vert	43	427 km NE	108	14.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 50 % · humidity 93 %
Poggiolo	2A	781 km E	104	17.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Borce'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-Paul-de-Salers	15	350 km NE	105	16.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Gijounet	81	273 km E	115	6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Le Roux	07	429 km NE	67	19.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Agnan-en-Morvan	58	612 km NE	143	3.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Malons-et-Elze	30	406 km NE	111	16.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Berlats	81	269 km E	119	7.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

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