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Sedzère

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CC du Nord Est Béarn · INSEE 64516

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

Few services 20.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 36 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sedzère (INSEE 64516) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CC du Nord Est Béarn. Population 406 (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/64516-sedzere

Vitality score

Vitality score 20.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 36 % of the 17,989 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
Education0.63106.32
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.63106.31
Housing mix0.9954.94

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 1 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”.

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

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE). [3]

1 × Hairdresser (DU PINCEAU AUX CISEAUX). [3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)1ECOLE PRIMAIREINSEE BPE 1 [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]
Hairdresser1DU PINCEAU AUX CISEAUXINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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: 212 peak 2012: 408 2023: 406 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 408 (2012) → 406 (2023): -0.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 359 (1990) → 406 (2023): 13.1 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 177, of which 0.6 % second homes and 4.5 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmFood shop — 6.0 km E (Bédeille)GP — 6.4 km W (Morlaàs)Pharmacy — 6.6 km W (Morlaàs)Bakery — 6.7 km W (Morlaàs)
In the commune Primary school Food shop — 6.0 km EGP — 6.4 km WPharmacy — 6.6 km WBakery — 6.7 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 (Morlaàs): 6.7 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Bédeille): 6 km to the east (straight line). [9]

GP (Morlaàs): 6.4 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Morlaàs): 6.6 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Sedzère): 0 km to the south (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 21 days a year at or above 30 °C and 20 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the LEMBEYE weather station, 13.4 km away at 310 m; the village itself is at 357 m. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 8 days a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at GER, 13.5 km away at 410 m, over 18 summers. [11]

That station sits 53 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [11]

An average of 1,243 mm of rain a year, spread over 133 days — about 9.3 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at ANDOINS, 6.2 km away at 314 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 — 64516/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64516/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64516/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64516/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64405
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64103
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 64516
  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
Frichemesnil76706 km N41119.3No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 62 %
Obermorschwiller68754 km NE40920.4Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 39 % · humidity 50 %
Aigleville27642 km N41425Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 49 % · humidity 50 %
Alzing57838 km NE40519.2No daily shopsno figures
Bailleul-lès-Pernes62820 km N40823.3Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 73 % · humidity 43 %
Chailly-lès-Ennery57817 km NE39425Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 65 % · humidity 50 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Aigleville27642 km N41425Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 49 % · humidity 50 %
Frichemesnil76706 km N41119.3No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 62 %
Obermorschwiller68754 km NE40920.4Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 39 % · humidity 50 %
Chailly-lès-Ennery57817 km NE39425Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 65 % · humidity 50 %
Bailleul-lès-Pernes62820 km N40823.3Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 73 % · humidity 43 %
Alzing57838 km NE40519.2No daily shopsno 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 Sedzère'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
Escoubès6410 km NW41624.9Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Seurin-de-Bourg33193 km N41423.5Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Villeneuve33197 km N40722Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Lusignan-Petit47118 km NE35322.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Georges-Antignac17241 km N41620.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Sénac6529 km E29424Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %