Escos

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CC du Béarn des Gaves · INSEE 64205

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

No daily shops 15.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 33 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Escos (INSEE 64205) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CC du Béarn des Gaves. Population 237 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[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/64205-escos

Vitality score

Vitality score 15.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 33 % of the 16,965 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.48	10	4.83
Housing mix	0.4	5	1.98

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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 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”.

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

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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]
Restaurant	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 282 2023: 237 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 253 (2012) → 237 (2023): -6.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 241 (1990) → 237 (2023): -1.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 182, of which 30.2 % second homes and 8.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 1.8 km WFood shop — 2.0 km NPharmacy — 3.5 km NGP — 3.8 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 (Labastide-Villefranche): 1.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Auterrive): 2 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Carresse-Cassaber): 3.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Carresse-Cassaber): 3.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Escos): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 37.6

Days at or below 0 °C 35.8

Muggy days a summer 15.9▸

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 38 days a year at or above 30 °C and 36 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ST-GLADIE weather station, 9.1 km away at 73 m; the village itself is at 50 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 16 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at AICIRITS, 12.5 km away at 75 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 1,300 mm of rain a year, spread over 143 days — about 9.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ST-GLADIE, 9.1 km away at 73 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 — 64205/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64205/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64205/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64205/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64291
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64082
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64168
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64205
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
Prunières	48	379 km NE	226	19.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 26 % · winter 0 %
Saint-Pierre-Colamine	63	391 km NE	247	16.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 62 % · humidity 0 %
La Puisaye	28	594 km N	248	18.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 64 % · humidity 0 %
Arnave	09	225 km E	208	19.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 43 % · humidity 7 %
Butot-Vénesville	76	718 km N	230	16	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 8 % · winter 76 %
Alzen	09	207 km E	262	21.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 58 % · humidity 0 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Alzen	09	207 km E	262	21.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 58 % · humidity 0 %
Arnave	09	225 km E	208	19.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 43 % · humidity 7 %
Prunières	48	379 km NE	226	19.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 26 % · winter 0 %
Saint-Pierre-Colamine	63	391 km NE	247	16.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 62 % · humidity 0 %
La Puisaye	28	594 km N	248	18.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 64 % · humidity 0 %
Butot-Vénesville	76	718 km N	230	16	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 8 % · winter 76 %

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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 Escos'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
Charritte-de-Bas	64	20 km SE	242	17.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Garrey	40	26 km N	215	20.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Autevielle-Saint-Martin-Bideren	64	6.7 km S	219	10.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Dumes	40	44 km NE	265	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Oraàs	64	1.4 km SE	184	9.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Lacrabe	40	38 km NE	287	24.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %

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