Igon

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CC Pays de Nay · INSEE 64270

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

Few services 36.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 51 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Igon (INSEE 64270) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CC Pays de Nay. Population 1,028 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Petites villes (level 3). ^[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/64270-igon

Vitality score

Vitality score 36.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 51 % of the 14,125 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	0.34	25	8.55
Social	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.2	10	1.97
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.8	10	7.98
Housing mix	0.88	5	4.4

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 2 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (PATISSERIE GASPE). ^[3]

2 × Butcher (boucherie) (HOURCQ). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE MARLIN BLEU). ^[3,4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CARMEN MESNARD, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE DES SPORTS). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Primary school (élémentaire).

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	PATISSERIE GASPE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	2	HOURCQ	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	LE MARLIN BLEU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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)	1	CARMEN MESNARD, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	SALLE DES SPORTS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 752 2023: 1,028 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 939 (2012) → 1,028 (2023): 9.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 792 (1990) → 1,028 (2023): 29.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 447, of which 6 % second homes and 4.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 0.9 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 (Igon): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Igon): 0.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Igon): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Coarraze): 0.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Igon): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 27

Days at or below 0 °C 47.6

Muggy days a summer 11.6▸

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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 48 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the BENEJACQ weather station, 3.7 km away at 255 m; the village itself is at 282 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 12 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at GER, 14.8 km away at 410 m, over 18 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 128 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 1,230 mm of rain a year, spread over 132 days — about 9.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BENEJACQ, 3.7 km away at 255 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 — 64270/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64270/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64270/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64270/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64270
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64191
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
Marcy	69	495 km NE	916	43.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · humidity 43 %
Chaux	90	748 km NE	1,184	31.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 77 % · humidity 21 %
Torpes	25	655 km NE	995	38.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 74 % · humidity 21 %
Heiligenstein	67	834 km NE	925	35.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 99 % · humidity 29 %
Laveyron	26	462 km NE	1,253	41	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 100 % · humidity 29 %
Ferrières-sur-Ariège	09	152 km E	788	34.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 80 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Ferrières-sur-Ariège	09	152 km E	788	34.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 80 % · humidity 57 %
Laveyron	26	462 km NE	1,253	41	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 100 % · humidity 29 %
Marcy	69	495 km NE	916	43.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · humidity 43 %
Torpes	25	655 km NE	995	38.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 74 % · humidity 21 %
Chaux	90	748 km NE	1,184	31.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 77 % · humidity 21 %
Heiligenstein	67	834 km NE	925	35.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 99 % · 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 Igon'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
Bénéjacq	64	3.8 km NE	2,013	53.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Bordères	64	4.7 km N	694	21.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Mirepeix	64	3.4 km NW	1,255	30.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Coarraze	64	1.0 km N	2,177	55.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Artigueloutan	64	13 km N	1,105	32.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Verdelais	33	159 km N	1,045	40	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

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