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Saint-Jean-Poudge

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CC des Luys en Béarn · INSEE 64486

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

No daily shops 12.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 51 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Jean-Poudge (INSEE 64486) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CC des Luys en Béarn. Population 79 (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/64486-saint-jean-poudge

Vitality score

Vitality score 12.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 51 % of the 8,383 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 trend0.68106.79
Housing mix0.7753.86

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: 85 peak 1975: 90 2023: 79 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 80 (2012) → 79 (2023): -1.2 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 67 (1990) → 79 (2023): 17.9 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 44, of which 11.4 % second homes and 6.8 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 3.9 km E (Aurions-Idernes)Food shop — 7.8 km E (Lasserre)Bakery — 8.0 km NW (Garlin)GP — 8.0 km NW (Garlin)Pharmacy — 8.1 km NW (Garlin)
Primary school — 3.9 km EFood shop — 7.8 km EBakery — 8.0 km NWGP — 8.0 km NWPharmacy — 8.1 km NW 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 (Garlin): 8 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Lasserre): 7.8 km to the east (straight line). [9]

GP (Garlin): 8 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Garlin): 8.1 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Aurions-Idernes): 3.9 km to the 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 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, 4.6 km away at 156 m; the village itself is at 175 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, 4.6 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 — 64486/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64486/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64486/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64486/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64233
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64323
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64079
  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
Driencourt80755 km N7810.4No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 44 % · winter 78 %
Barville88710 km NE798.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 64 %
Ancienville02684 km N7816.3No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 49 % · winter 74 %
Vaudrivillers25663 km NE7711No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 56 % · winter 14 %
Vernancourt51707 km NE8011.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 73 %
Lespiteau3192 km SE7812.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 65 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Lespiteau3192 km SE7812.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 65 %
Vaudrivillers25663 km NE7711No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 56 % · winter 14 %
Ancienville02684 km N7816.3No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 49 % · winter 74 %
Vernancourt51707 km NE8011.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 73 %
Barville88710 km NE798.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 64 %
Driencourt80755 km N7810.4No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 44 % · winter 78 %

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