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Burosse-Mendousse

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CC des Luys en Béarn · INSEE 64153

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

No daily shops 12.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 50 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Burosse-Mendousse (INSEE 64153) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CC des Luys en Béarn. Population 81 (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/64153-burosse-mendousse

Vitality score

Vitality score 12.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 50 % of the 8,579 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 & culture0.3251.58
Population trend0.53105.25
Housing mix0.7653.81

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 1 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]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE BUROSSE-MENDOUSSE). [3]

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. [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]
Library1BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE BUROSSE-MENDOUSSEINSEE BPE 1 [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: 76 peak 1982: 85 2023: 81 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 55 (2012) → 81 (2023): 47.3 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 79 (1990) → 81 (2023): 2.5 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 42, of which 11.9 % second homes and 11.9 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 3.1 km S (Lannecaube)Bakery — 6.4 km SW (Coslédaà-Lube-Boast)Food shop — 7.2 km SW (Carrère)GP — 7.2 km NW (Garlin)Pharmacy — 7.2 km NW (Garlin)
Primary school — 3.1 km SBakery — 6.4 km SWFood shop — 7.2 km SWGP — 7.2 km NWPharmacy — 7.2 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 (Coslédaà-Lube-Boast): 6.4 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Carrère): 7.2 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Garlin): 7.2 km to the north-west (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Garlin): 7.2 km to the north-west (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Lannecaube): 3.1 km to the south (straight line). [11]

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. [12]

Measured at the MONT-DISSE weather station, 7.3 km away at 156 m; the village itself is at 200 m. [12]

An average of 1,065 mm of rain a year, spread over 128 days — about 8.3 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at GARLIN, 6.6 km away at 209 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [12]

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. [13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64153/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64153/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64153/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64153/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64194
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64167
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64233
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64311
  12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
  13. 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
Peyrolles11214 km E9118.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 96 %
Lavernoy52664 km NE748.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 38 %
Saint-Brès3284 km E7010.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 88 %
Ponsan-Soubiran3259 km E807.5No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 82 % · winter 89 %
Prusy10596 km NE849.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 41 %
Aujan-Mournède3259 km E8910.2No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 82 % · winter 89 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Ponsan-Soubiran3259 km E807.5No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 82 % · winter 89 %
Aujan-Mournède3259 km E8910.2No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 82 % · winter 89 %
Saint-Brès3284 km E7010.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 88 %
Peyrolles11214 km E9118.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 96 %
Prusy10596 km NE849.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 41 %
Lavernoy52664 km NE748.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 38 %

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