Lahonce

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CA du Pays Basque · INSEE 64304

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

Few services 39/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 27 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lahonce (INSEE 64304) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CA du Pays Basque. Population 2,740 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/64304-lahonce

Vitality score

Vitality score 39/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 27 % of the 7,713 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.62

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 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 1 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 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE DE LAHONCE). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (BIOMONDE KIMUA). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (IZARLILIA). ^[3,4]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (EMMANUEL MARTINEZ, MÉDECIN · GAETAN COUFFINHAL, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

1 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE POLYVALENTE KIROLDEGI). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (L'ETERNEL BIEN ETRE). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (ADONIS HOTEL BAYONNE). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	BOULANGERIE DE LAHONCE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	BIOMONDE KIMUA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	IZARLILIA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [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)	2	EMMANUEL MARTINEZ, MÉDECIN · GAETAN COUFFINHAL, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [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	LAHONCE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	SALLE POLYVALENTE KIROLDEGI	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	2	L'ETERNEL BIEN ETRE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	ADONIS HOTEL BAYONNE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 616 2023: 2,740 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,041 (2012) → 2,740 (2023): 34.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,496 (1990) → 2,740 (2023): 83.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,277, of which 3.8 % second homes and 3.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 1.0 km NWPharmacy — 3.3 km SW 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 (Lahonce): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lahonce): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Lahonce): 1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Mouguerre): 3.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Lahonce): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 12.8

Days at or below 0 °C 14.3▸

Muggy days a summer 16.3▸

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 14 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the BIARRITZ-PAYS-BASQUE weather station, 12.1 km away at 71 m; the village itself is at 33 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 16 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at BIARRITZ-PAYS-BASQUE, 12.1 km away at 71 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,468 mm of rain a year, spread over 140 days — about 10.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at BIARRITZ-PAYS-BASQUE, 12.1 km away at 71 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64304/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64304/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64304/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64304/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64304
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64407
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
Scy-Chazelles	57	850 km NE	2,753	46.9	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 35 % · humidity 0 %
La Jarne	17	295 km N	2,637	48.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 36 %
Alsting	57	902 km NE	2,480	34.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 15 % · humidity 0 %
Camphin-en-Pévèle	59	865 km N	2,518	46.6	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 72 % · humidity 0 %
Kaltenhouse	67	922 km NE	2,412	52.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 32 % · humidity 14 %
Oberschaeffolsheim	67	898 km NE	2,597	40.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 41 % · humidity 0 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Jarne	17	295 km N	2,637	48.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 36 %
Scy-Chazelles	57	850 km NE	2,753	46.9	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 35 % · humidity 0 %
Camphin-en-Pévèle	59	865 km N	2,518	46.6	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 72 % · humidity 0 %
Oberschaeffolsheim	67	898 km NE	2,597	40.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 41 % · humidity 0 %
Alsting	57	902 km NE	2,480	34.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 15 % · humidity 0 %
Kaltenhouse	67	922 km NE	2,412	52.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 32 % · humidity 14 %

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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 Lahonce'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
Arbonne	64	15 km SW	2,447	54.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Arcangues	64	12 km SW	3,657	35.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Ahetze	64	17 km SW	2,104	45.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Bassussarry	64	11 km SW	3,414	48.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Mouguerre	64	3.6 km SW	5,428	51.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pierre-d'Irube	64	5.5 km W	5,900	61.4	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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