Soumoulou

Pyrénées-Atlantiques · CC du Nord Est Béarn · INSEE 64526

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

Served 61.8/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 95 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Soumoulou (INSEE 64526) is in Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64), part of CC du Nord Est Béarn. Population 1,583 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/64526-soumoulou

Vitality score

Vitality score 61.8/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 95 % of the 11,224 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0.7	20	14.09
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.66	10	6.56
Public & culture	0.51	5	2.56
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.87

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 2 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (CUYALA · EURL FAURE). ^[3,4]

2 × Supermarket (INTERMARCHE · ALDI MARCHE). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LE NAVARRE · PIZZA COSTA). ^[3,4]

3 × Café / bar (L'UNIVERS). ^[4]

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

5 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ÉTIENNE GUITTON, MÉDECIN · ANAIS DUPARD, MÉDECIN · MARGAUX ASTIÉ, MÉDECIN · MARGOT JUIN, MÉDECIN · ELODIE SOUNTHONE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE GELIZE BERNES HEUGA). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

2 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE SOUMOULOU · RÉSEAU DES BIBLIOTHÈQUES DE L'OUSSE ET DU GABAS COORDINATION DU RÉSEAU DE LECTURE PUBLIQUE DE LA CC OUSSE-GA). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (HALL DES SPORTS). ^[3]

1 × Bank (CREDIT AGRICOLE). ^[3]

5 × Hairdresser (INGRID SARRAILH COIFFURE · SARAH COIFFURE ESTHETIQUE · STUDIO 16 · DISCOPAR). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	CUYALA · EURL FAURE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	2	INTERMARCHE · ALDI MARCHE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	2	LE NAVARRE · PIZZA COSTA	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	3	L'UNIVERS	INSEE SIRENE 3 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE RENE FRYDMAN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	5	ÉTIENNE GUITTON, MÉDECIN · ANAIS DUPARD, MÉDECIN · MARGAUX ASTIÉ, MÉDECIN · MARGOT JUIN, MÉDECIN · ELODIE SOUNTHONE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 5 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE GELIZE BERNES HEUGA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	2	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE SOUMOULOU · RÉSEAU DES BIBLIOTHÈQUES DE L'OUSSE ET DU GABAS COORDINATION DU RÉSEAU DE LECTURE PUBLIQUE DE LA CC OUSSE-GA	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	HALL DES SPORTS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	1	CREDIT AGRICOLE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Hairdresser	5	INGRID SARRAILH COIFFURE · SARAH COIFFURE ESTHETIQUE · STUDIO 16 · DISCOPAR	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [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: 638 peak 2017: 1,584 2023: 1,583 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,516 (2012) → 1,583 (2023): 4.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,022 (1990) → 1,583 (2023): 54.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 744, of which 1.3 % second homes and 6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Soumoulou): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Soumoulou): 0.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Soumoulou): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Soumoulou): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Soumoulou): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 27

Days at or below 0 °C 47.6

Muggy days a summer 11▸

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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 48 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the BENEJACQ weather station, 8.5 km away at 255 m; the village itself is at 296 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 11 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at GER, 9.1 km away at 410 m, over 18 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 114 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.46 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 1,284 mm of rain a year, spread over 137 days — about 9.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at ESPOEY, 3.3 km away at 309 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64526/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64526/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64526/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 64526/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64526
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
Herzeele	59	872 km N	1,638	53.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 72 % · humidity 29 %
Landser	68	768 km NE	1,633	47.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 73 % · humidity 29 %
Pargny-sur-Saulx	51	724 km NE	1,654	44.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 96 % · humidity 36 %
Cirey-sur-Vezouze	54	808 km NE	1,555	40.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 51 % · humidity 29 %
Saint-Loup-Géanges	71	572 km NE	1,633	54.6	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 97 % · humidity 36 %
Cormicy	51	747 km NE	1,500	53.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 92 % · humidity 21 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Loup-Géanges	71	572 km NE	1,633	54.6	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 97 % · humidity 36 %
Pargny-sur-Saulx	51	724 km NE	1,654	44.7	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 96 % · humidity 36 %
Cormicy	51	747 km NE	1,500	53.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 92 % · humidity 21 %
Landser	68	768 km NE	1,633	47.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 73 % · humidity 29 %
Cirey-sur-Vezouze	54	808 km NE	1,555	40.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 51 % · humidity 29 %
Herzeele	59	872 km N	1,638	53.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 72 % · humidity 29 %

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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 Soumoulou'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
Rabastens-de-Bigorre	65	31 km NE	1,483	56.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Masseube	32	65 km E	1,511	48.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Symphorien-de-Lay	42	459 km NE	1,979	61.4	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Seissan	32	68 km E	1,097	46.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Arzacq-Arraziguet	64	35 km NW	1,077	54	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saint Aulaye-Puymangou	24	217 km N	1,450	49.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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