Gabaston

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CC du Nord Est Béarn · INSEE 64227

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

Few services 20.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 17 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Gabaston (INSEE 64227) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CC du Nord Est Béarn. Population 673 (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/64227-gabaston

Vitality score

Vitality score 20.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 17 % of the 16,565 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	0.62	10	6.18
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.68

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 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 [3,4]
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: 342 2023: 673 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 611 (2012) → 673 (2023): 10.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 602 (1990) → 673 (2023): 11.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 308, of which 3.2 % second homes and 4.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 3.9 km SWBakery — 4.1 km WPharmacy — 4.1 km WFood shop — 4.2 km W 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 (Morlaàs): 4.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Morlaàs): 4.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Morlaàs): 3.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Morlaàs): 4.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Gabaston): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 20.9

Days at or below 0 °C 19.9

Muggy days a summer 10.7▸

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 20 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LEMBEYE weather station, 12.9 km away at 310 m; the village itself is at 308 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 11 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at GER, 16.8 km away at 410 m, over 18 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 102 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 1,243 mm of rain a year, spread over 133 days — about 9.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ANDOINS, 5.9 km away at 314 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64227/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64227/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64227/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64227/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64405
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64227
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
Auffreville-Brasseuil	78	639 km N	671	21.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 82 % · humidity 29 %
Varambon	01	528 km NE	675	24.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 35 % · humidity 29 %
Averdon	41	495 km N	677	19.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 68 % · humidity 29 %
Thury-sous-Clermont	60	694 km N	667	21.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 46 % · humidity 29 %
La Villeneuve-en-Chevrie	78	643 km N	665	22.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 74 % · humidity 29 %
Anglesqueville-l'Esneval	76	698 km N	678	24.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 80 % · humidity 29 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Averdon	41	495 km N	677	19.6	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 68 % · humidity 29 %
Varambon	01	528 km NE	675	24.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 35 % · humidity 29 %
Auffreville-Brasseuil	78	639 km N	671	21.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 82 % · humidity 29 %
La Villeneuve-en-Chevrie	78	643 km N	665	22.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 74 % · humidity 29 %
Thury-sous-Clermont	60	694 km N	667	21.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 46 % · humidity 29 %
Anglesqueville-l'Esneval	76	698 km N	678	24.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 80 % · humidity 29 %

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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 Gabaston'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
Serres-Sainte-Marie	64	29 km W	581	22.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Barinque	64	7.4 km NW	580	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Armou	64	9.8 km NW	609	28.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Momas	64	22 km NW	604	32.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Escoubès	64	6.9 km NW	416	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Esteben	64	81 km W	442	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

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