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Lacommande

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CC de Lacq-Orthez · INSEE 64299

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

No daily shops 9.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 11 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lacommande (INSEE 64299) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CC de Lacq-Orthez. Population 172 (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/64299-lacommande

Vitality score

Vitality score 9.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 11 % of the 15,091 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 & culture050
Population trend0.35103.51
Housing mix0.8654.32

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 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [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, Library. [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]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 187 peak 2007: 247 2023: 172 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 225 (2012) → 172 (2023): -23.6 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 202 (1990) → 172 (2023): -14.9 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 103, of which 6.8 % second homes and 11.7 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 2.1 km E (Aubertin)GP — 4.1 km SE (Lasseube)Food shop — 5.2 km NE (Artiguelouve)Bakery — 5.8 km NE (Artiguelouve)Pharmacy — 5.8 km NE (Artiguelouve)
Primary school — 2.1 km EGP — 4.1 km SEFood shop — 5.2 km NEBakery — 5.8 km NEPharmacy — 5.8 km NE 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 (Artiguelouve): 5.8 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Artiguelouve): 5.2 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

GP (Lasseube): 4.1 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Artiguelouve): 5.8 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Aubertin): 2.1 km to the east (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 29 days a year at or above 30 °C and 17 days at or below 0 °C, over 28 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the MONEIN weather station, 2.8 km away at 241 m; the village itself is at 161 m. [11]

The village sits 80 m below 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. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 19 days a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at HERRERE, 13.1 km away at 294 m, over 12 summers. [11]

That station sits 133 m above 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 1,219 mm of rain a year, spread over 132 days — about 9.2 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at MONEIN, 2.8 km away at 241 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 — 64299/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64299/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64299/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64299/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64060
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64324
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64072
  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
Loisy-en-Brie51710 km NE17110.3No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 49 % · humidity 0 %
Harponville80786 km N17014.6No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 58 % · humidity 0 %
Flavigny51725 km NE1729.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 50 % · humidity 0 %
Le Troncq27667 km N17115.4No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 51 % · winter 46 %
Pocancy51725 km NE17510No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 50 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Germain-des-Angles27659 km N1729.2No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 58 % · humidity 0 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Germain-des-Angles27659 km N1729.2No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 58 % · humidity 0 %
Le Troncq27667 km N17115.4No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 51 % · winter 46 %
Loisy-en-Brie51710 km NE17110.3No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 49 % · humidity 0 %
Flavigny51725 km NE1729.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 50 % · humidity 0 %
Pocancy51725 km NE17510No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 50 % · humidity 0 %
Harponville80786 km N17014.6No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 58 % · humidity 0 %

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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 Lacommande'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
Lacadée6431 km N14514.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Méritein6422 km W27912No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Dognen6419 km W22519.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Sarpourenx6426 km NW28515.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Lanneplaà6433 km NW30113.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Abidos6416 km NW22221.1Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %