Ponson-Dessus

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CC du Nord Est Béarn · INSEE 64452

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school.

Few services 20.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 53 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ponson-Dessus (INSEE 64452) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CC du Nord Est Béarn. Population 261 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 20.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 53 % of the 17,386 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	25	0
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.65	10	6.5
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.84

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 1 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Hairdresser (KARINE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1	KARINE COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 207 2023: 261 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 246 (2012) → 261 (2023): 6.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 227 (1990) → 261 (2023): 15 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 124, of which 1.6 % second homes and 6.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.7 km WFood shop — 5.4 km NWBakery — 6.9 km SPharmacy — 7.2 km SGP — 7.3 km S 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 (Ger): 6.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bédeille): 5.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Ger): 7.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Ger): 7.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Séron): 3.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 15.4

Days at or below 0 °C 43.4

Muggy days a summer 6.8

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 43 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the GER weather station, 8.7 km away at 410 m; the village itself is at 364 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at GER, 8.7 km away at 410 m, over 18 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,024 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 8.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MONTANER, 5.9 km away at 325 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64452/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64452/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64452/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64452/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64238
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64103
INSEE BPE 2025 — 65422
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
Claville-Motteville	76	706 km N	260	19.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 97 %
Anneux	59	798 km N	258	20.9	Few services	no figures
Tartigny	60	727 km N	250	24.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 57 %
Sancourt	80	756 km N	269	17.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 100 % · humidity 57 %
Souain-Perthes-lès-Hurlus	51	742 km NE	263	22.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 76 % · humidity 57 %
Frais	90	730 km NE	249	21.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 61 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Claville-Motteville	76	706 km N	260	19.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 79 % · winter 97 %
Tartigny	60	727 km N	250	24.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 57 %
Frais	90	730 km NE	249	21.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 61 % · humidity 57 %
Souain-Perthes-lès-Hurlus	51	742 km NE	263	22.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 76 % · humidity 57 %
Sancourt	80	756 km N	269	17.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 100 % · humidity 57 %
Anneux	59	798 km N	258	20.9	Few services	no figures

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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 Ponson-Dessus'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
Pamplie	79	360 km N	249	9.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Lapan	18	442 km NE	229	16.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Arrien	64	8.6 km W	197	16.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Bernac-Dessus	65	22 km SE	282	19	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Cours	79	355 km N	521	22.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Cos	09	137 km E	350	16.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %

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