Hélette

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CA du Pays Basque · INSEE 64259

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Partly served 57/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 96 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Hélette (INSEE 64259) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CA du Pays Basque. Population 758 (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/64259-helette

Vitality score

Vitality score 57/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 96 % of the 15,957 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.98	20	19.63
Education	0.86	10	8.65
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.79	10	7.89
Housing mix	0.77	5	3.86

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 of 3

Lodging 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (MERKATU TTIPIA). ^[3,4]

4 × Restaurant (IDIART MARIE-ODILE · EZKARATZEAN · LES BOUCHEES EXOTIQUES · BIDOO). ^[3,4]

4 × Café / bar (BANA). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PRIVEE NOTRE DAME). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (HELETTE AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE D'HÉLETTE). ^[3]

1 × Campsite (AIRE NATURELLE OSPITALIA). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[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)	1	MERKATU TTIPIA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	4	IDIART MARIE-ODILE · EZKARATZEAN · LES BOUCHEES EXOTIQUES · BIDOO	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	4	BANA	INSEE SIRENE 4 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PRIVEE NOTRE DAME	INSEE BPE 2 [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	1	HELETTE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE D'HÉLETTE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	AIRE NATURELLE OSPITALIA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 660 2023: 758 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 749 (2012) → 758 (2023): 1.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 588 (1990) → 758 (2023): 28.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 437, of which 11.4 % second homes and 9.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 3.0 km SGP — 4.4 km SEPharmacy — 5.5 km S 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 (Irissarry): 3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Hélette): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Irissarry): 4.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Irissarry): 5.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 19.3

Days at or below 0 °C 35.4

Muggy days a summer 8.8

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 19 days a year at or above 30 °C and 35 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the IRISSARRY weather station, 5.7 km away at 200 m; the village itself is at 264 m. ^[10]

The village sits 64 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 9 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at BUSTINCE - ST JEAN, 15.5 km away at 189 m, over 21 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 75 m below 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 1,460 mm of rain a year, spread over 141 days — about 10.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at IRISSARRY, 5.7 km away at 200 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 — 64259/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64259/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64259/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64259/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64273
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64259
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
Cerdon	01	613 km NE	747	48.2	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 81 % · humidity 43 %
Le Chaffaut-Saint-Jurson	04	600 km E	693	49.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 12 % · humidity 36 %
Roudouallec	56	569 km N	722	47	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 88 %
Confort	01	641 km NE	668	48.6	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 5 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Thois	29	578 km N	703	48.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 77 % · humidity 43 %
Cremeaux	42	501 km NE	914	42.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 5 % · humidity 43 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Cremeaux	42	501 km NE	914	42.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 5 % · humidity 43 %
Roudouallec	56	569 km N	722	47	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 88 %
Saint-Thois	29	578 km N	703	48.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 77 % · humidity 43 %
Le Chaffaut-Saint-Jurson	04	600 km E	693	49.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 12 % · humidity 36 %
Cerdon	01	613 km NE	747	48.2	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 81 % · humidity 43 %
Confort	01	641 km NE	668	48.6	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 5 % · humidity 36 %

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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 Hélette'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
Civrac-en-Médoc	33	227 km N	634	34.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Épargnes	17	251 km N	947	50.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Bosdarros	64	72 km E	962	36.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Champagnolles	17	250 km N	687	31.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Corgnac-sur-l'Isle	24	289 km NE	854	48.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Ance Féas	64	48 km E	624	40.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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