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Louvie-Soubiron

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CC de la Vallée d'Ossau · INSEE 64354

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

No daily shops 6.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 4 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Louvie-Soubiron (INSEE 64354) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CC de la Vallée d'Ossau. Population 133 (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/64354-louvie-soubiron

Vitality score

Vitality score 6.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 4 % of the 13,086 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 trend0.55105.47
Housing mix050

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 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

1 × Campsite. [3,4]

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

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]
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]
Campsite1INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 128 2023: 133 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 119 (2012) → 133 (2023): 11.8 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 127 (1990) → 133 (2023): 4.7 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 140, of which 51.4 % second homes and 1.4 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 0.6 km S (Béost)Food shop — 1.1 km SW (Laruns)GP — 1.4 km SW (Laruns)Bakery — 1.5 km SW (Laruns)Pharmacy — 8.0 km SE (Eaux-Bonnes)
Primary school — 0.6 km SFood shop — 1.1 km SWGP — 1.4 km SWBakery — 1.5 km SWPharmacy — 8.0 km SE 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 (Laruns): 1.5 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Laruns): 1.1 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

GP (Laruns): 1.4 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Eaux-Bonnes): 8 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Béost): 0.6 km to the south (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 17 days a year at or above 30 °C and 50 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the LARUNS-HOURAT weather station, 2.1 km away at 522 m; the village itself is at 582 m. [11]

The village sits 60 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. [11]

An average of 1,653 mm of rain a year, spread over 143 days — about 11.6 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at LARUNS-HOURAT, 2.1 km away at 522 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 — 64354/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64354/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64354/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64354/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64320
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64204
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64110
  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
Olmeta-di-Capocorso2B797 km E1238No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 82 % · winter 34 %
Castans11239 km E1247.3No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 85 % · winter 80 %
Le Vey14658 km N13912No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 66 %
Gaillagos6519 km E12511.8No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 80 %
Burgalays3186 km E1247.3No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 84 %
Escaro66229 km E1288.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 51 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Gaillagos6519 km E12511.8No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 80 %
Burgalays3186 km E1247.3No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 84 %
Escaro66229 km E1288.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 51 %
Castans11239 km E1247.3No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 85 % · winter 80 %
Le Vey14658 km N13912No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 66 %
Olmeta-di-Capocorso2B797 km E1238No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 82 % · winter 34 %

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