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Gerderest

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CC du Nord Est Béarn · INSEE 64239

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

No daily shops 14.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 46 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Gerderest (INSEE 64239) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CC du Nord Est Béarn. Population 141 (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/64239-gerderest

Vitality score

Vitality score 14.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 46 % of the 13,583 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 trend0.64106.37
Housing mix0.8854.4

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 1 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 GERDEREST). [3]

1 × Hairdresser (E & L COIFFURE). [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. [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 GERDERESTINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser1E & L COIFFUREINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 104 2023: 141 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 124 (2012) → 141 (2023): 13.7 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 124 (1990) → 141 (2023): 13.7 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 67, of which 6 % second homes and 14.9 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 2.0 km NW (Monassut-Audiracq)Bakery — 6.8 km NE (Lembeye)Pharmacy — 6.8 km NE (Lembeye)GP — 7.3 km NE (Lembeye)Food shop — 7.8 km NW (Sévignacq)
Primary school — 2.0 km NWBakery — 6.8 km NEPharmacy — 6.8 km NEGP — 7.3 km NEFood shop — 7.8 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 (Lembeye): 6.8 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Sévignacq): 7.8 km to the north-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Lembeye): 7.3 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Lembeye): 6.8 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Monassut-Audiracq): 2 km to the north-west (straight line). [10]

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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 20 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the LEMBEYE weather station, 7.2 km away at 310 m; the village itself is at 322 m. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at PAU-UZEIN, 19.5 km away at 183 m, over 30 summers. [11]

That station sits 139 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [11]

An average of 1,091 mm of rain a year, spread over 133 days — about 8.2 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at LEMBEYE, 7.2 km away at 310 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64239/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64239/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64239/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64239/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64331
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64523
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64389
  11. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Arville77572 km N14515.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 62 % · humidity 57 %
Pessoulens3298 km NE13710.8No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Arblade-le-Bas3233 km N13415No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 71 %
Solemont25693 km NE1318.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 46 % · humidity 57 %
Lourties-Monbrun3258 km E15018.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Bassercles4039 km NW15115.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 72 % · humidity 50 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Arblade-le-Bas3233 km N13415No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 71 %
Bassercles4039 km NW15115.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 72 % · humidity 50 %
Lourties-Monbrun3258 km E15018.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Pessoulens3298 km NE13710.8No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Arville77572 km N14515.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 62 % · humidity 57 %
Solemont25693 km NE1318.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 46 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Gerderest'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Falga31164 km E14117.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Neulles17234 km N16511.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Agudelle17221 km N13114.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Mortiers17222 km N17310.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Fontrailles6544 km E16812.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Lespourcy645.7 km S17815.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %