Serres-Morlaàs

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CC du Nord Est Béarn · INSEE 64520

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Partly served 40.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 69 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Serres-Morlaàs (INSEE 64520) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CC du Nord Est Béarn. Population 870 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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 40.3/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 69 % of the 15,190 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.8

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 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”.

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (BOIS & VERRES). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (BOX JEAN PIERRE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE SERRES-MORLAÀS). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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)	1	BOIS & VERRES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	BOX JEAN PIERRE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE SERRES-MORLAÀS	INSEE BPE 1 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 282 2023: 870 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 727 (2012) → 870 (2023): 19.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 554 (1990) → 870 (2023): 57 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 409, of which 2 % second homes and 8.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 1.9 km NGP — 2.0 km NPharmacy — 2.1 km N 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): 1.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Serres-Morlaàs): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Morlaàs): 2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Morlaàs): 2.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Serres-Morlaàs): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 24.5

Days at or below 0 °C 28.2

Muggy days a summer 5.8

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 25 days a year at or above 30 °C and 28 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the PAU-(CIMETIERE) weather station, 10.6 km away at 202 m; the village itself is at 340 m. ^[10]

The village sits 138 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at PAU-UZEIN, 14.3 km away at 183 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 157 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 1,243 mm of rain a year, spread over 133 days — about 9.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ANDOINS, 2.2 km away at 314 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64520/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64520/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64520/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64520/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64405
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64520
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
Ardillières	17	308 km N	890	42.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Montjean	53	523 km N	1,020	30.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 82 % · humidity 71 %
Marpiré	35	542 km N	1,023	31.8	Few services	no figures
Brains-sur-Gée	72	522 km N	757	40.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 84 % · humidity 64 %
Cavanac	11	210 km E	1,021	35.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Marcel-de-Careiret	30	392 km E	870	42.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 78 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Cavanac	11	210 km E	1,021	35.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %
Ardillières	17	308 km N	890	42.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Marcel-de-Careiret	30	392 km E	870	42.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 78 % · humidity 79 %
Brains-sur-Gée	72	522 km N	757	40.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 84 % · humidity 64 %
Montjean	53	523 km N	1,020	30.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 82 % · humidity 71 %
Marpiré	35	542 km N	1,023	31.8	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 Serres-Morlaàs'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
Le Tourne	33	154 km N	833	44.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Chermignac	17	264 km N	1,265	36.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Capian	33	154 km N	809	38.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Lancié	69	504 km NE	1,101	27.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Baurech	33	156 km N	907	41.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Lamarque-Pontacq	65	20 km SE	862	26.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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