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Pouliacq

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CC des Luys en Béarn · INSEE 64456

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

No daily shops 15.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 79 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Pouliacq (INSEE 64456) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CC des Luys en Béarn. Population 49 (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/64456-pouliacq

Vitality score

Vitality score 15.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 79 % of the 4,658 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 trend0.79107.89
Housing mix155

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: 48 peak 1975: 62 2023: 49 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 49 (2012) → 49 (2023): 0 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 38 (1990) → 49 (2023): 28.9 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 25, of which 0 % second homes and 8 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmPrimary school — 2.7 km SE (Garlède-Mondebat)Food shop — 2.8 km NW (Poursiugues-Boucoue)Bakery — 4.3 km W (Arzacq-Arraziguet)Pharmacy — 4.3 km W (Arzacq-Arraziguet)GP — 4.6 km W (Arzacq-Arraziguet)
Primary school — 2.7 km SEFood shop — 2.8 km NWBakery — 4.3 km WPharmacy — 4.3 km WGP — 4.6 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 (Arzacq-Arraziguet): 4.3 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Poursiugues-Boucoue): 2.8 km to the north-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Arzacq-Arraziguet): 4.6 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Arzacq-Arraziguet): 4.3 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Garlède-Mondebat): 2.7 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 30 days a year at or above 30 °C and 37 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the POMPS weather station, 15.5 km away at 130 m; the village itself is at 198 m. [11]

The village sits 68 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]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 13 days a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at PAU-UZEIN, 16.5 km away at 183 m, over 30 summers. [11]

An average of 1,065 mm of rain a year, spread over 128 days — about 8.3 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at GARLIN, 7.4 km away at 209 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 — 64456/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64456/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64456/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64456/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64063
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64457
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64232
  11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

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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
Voilemont51730 km NE4715.4No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 68 % · humidity 14 %
Levoncourt55735 km NE5213.3No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 49 % · humidity 7 %
Thonville57806 km NE5212.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 58 % · humidity 14 %
Lanhères55784 km NE5414.8No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 69 % · humidity 14 %
Rouécourt52679 km NE489.7No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 85 % · humidity 21 %
Mont-Laurent08757 km NE517.3No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 82 % · humidity 14 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Rouécourt52679 km NE489.7No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 85 % · humidity 21 %
Voilemont51730 km NE4715.4No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 68 % · humidity 14 %
Levoncourt55735 km NE5213.3No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 49 % · humidity 7 %
Mont-Laurent08757 km NE517.3No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 82 % · humidity 14 %
Lanhères55784 km NE5414.8No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 69 % · humidity 14 %
Thonville57806 km NE5212.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 58 % · 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 Pouliacq'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Izotges3231 km NE8613.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Sarron4010 km NE10412.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Beyries4023 km W12114No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Mansencôme3268 km NE455.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Lagardère3265 km NE7715No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Mouchès3262 km E8211.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %