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Mont-Disse

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CC des Luys en Béarn · INSEE 64401

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

No daily shops 10.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 37 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Mont-Disse (INSEE 64401) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CC des Luys en Béarn. Population 81 (2023). [1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). [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/64401-mont-disse

Vitality score

Vitality score 10.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 37 % of the 8,579 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 trend0.49104.88
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: 106 2023: 81 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 79 (2012) → 81 (2023): 2.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 82 (1990) → 81 (2023): -1.2 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 44, of which 6.8 % second homes and 9.1 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 1.2 km NW (Diusse)Food shop — 4.3 km N (Viella)Bakery — 4.6 km N (Viella)GP — 9.8 km W (Garlin)Pharmacy — 9.9 km W (Garlin)
Primary school — 1.2 km NWFood shop — 4.3 km NBakery — 4.6 km NGP — 9.8 km WPharmacy — 9.9 km W 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 (Viella): 4.6 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Viella): 4.3 km to the north (straight line). [8]

GP (Garlin): 9.8 km to the west (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Garlin): 9.9 km to the west (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Diusse): 1.2 km to the north-west (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 31 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the MONT-DISSE weather station, 1.6 km away at 156 m; the village itself is at 172 m. [11]

An average of 1,004 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 7.9 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at MONT-DISSE, 1.6 km away at 156 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 — 64401/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64401/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64401/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64401/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 32463
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64233
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64199
  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
Lizeray36413 km N818.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 47 %
Ségalas6528 km SE818No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 77 %
Lussagnet4025 km N8010.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 86 %
Jauzé72519 km N8011.7No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 74 %
Avillers-Sainte-Croix55756 km NE8013.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 53 %
Pierrepont14592 km N839.8No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 44 % · winter 95 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Lussagnet4025 km N8010.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 86 %
Ségalas6528 km SE818No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 77 %
Lizeray36413 km N818.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 47 %
Jauzé72519 km N8011.7No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 67 % · winter 74 %
Pierrepont14592 km N839.8No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 44 % · winter 95 %
Avillers-Sainte-Croix55756 km NE8013.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 53 %

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