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Portet

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CC des Luys en Béarn · INSEE 64455

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

No daily shops 13.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 35 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Portet (INSEE 64455) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CC des Luys en Béarn. Population 161 (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/64455-portet

Vitality score

Vitality score 13.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 35 % of the 14,590 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 & culture0.6353.16
Population trend0.41104.1
Housing mix0.7953.93

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 1 of 1
Culture 1 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]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE PORTET). [3]

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. [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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 postale1PORTET APINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library1BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE PORTETINSEE BPE 1 [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: 200 peak 1975: 215 2023: 161 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 169 (2012) → 161 (2023): -4.7 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 177 (1990) → 161 (2023): -9 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 112, of which 10.7 % second homes and 15.2 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 2.3 km SE (Diusse)Food shop — 3.9 km NE (Viella)Bakery — 4.3 km NE (Viella)GP — 7.4 km W (Garlin)Pharmacy — 7.5 km W (Garlin)
Primary school — 2.3 km SEFood shop — 3.9 km NEBakery — 4.3 km NEGP — 7.4 km WPharmacy — 7.5 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): 4.3 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Viella): 3.9 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

GP (Garlin): 7.4 km to the west (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Garlin): 7.5 km to the west (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Diusse): 2.3 km to the south-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 23 days a year at or above 30 °C and 33 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the MONT-DISSE weather station, 5.1 km away at 156 m; the village itself is at 240 m. [11]

The village sits 84 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 1,004 mm of rain a year, spread over 127 days — about 7.9 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at MONT-DISSE, 5.1 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 — 64455/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64455/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64455/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64455/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
Ligardes3274 km NE20811.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 95 %
Ménoire19231 km NE13219.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 23 %
Escueillens-et-Saint-Just-de-Bélengard11186 km E16014.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 77 %
Monlaur-Bernet3262 km SE16310.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 80 %
Conchez-de-Béarn643.9 km S11614.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 100 % · winter 100 %
Dammarie-en-Puisaye45509 km NE17111.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 70 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Conchez-de-Béarn643.9 km S11614.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 100 % · winter 100 %
Monlaur-Bernet3262 km SE16310.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 80 %
Ligardes3274 km NE20811.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 95 %
Escueillens-et-Saint-Just-de-Bélengard11186 km E16014.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 87 % · winter 77 %
Ménoire19231 km NE13219.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 23 %
Dammarie-en-Puisaye45509 km NE17111.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 70 %

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