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Aspin-Aure

Hautes-Pyrénées · CC Aure Louron · INSEE 65039

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

No daily shops 12.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 65 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Aspin-Aure (INSEE 65039) is in Hautes-Pyrénées (65), part of CC Aure Louron. Population 43 (2023). [1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). [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/65039-aspin-aure

Vitality score

Vitality score 12.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 65 % of the 3,790 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
Social0.32206.32
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.34103.43
Housing mix0.1550.77

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 1 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant (LE COMPTOIR DE MALIA). [3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant1LE COMPTOIR DE MALIAINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 82 2023: 43 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 54 (2012) → 43 (2023): -20.4 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 51 (1990) → 43 (2023): -15.7 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 52, of which 42.3 % second homes and 17.3 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmGP — 3.1 km SE (Arreau)Food shop — 3.2 km SE (Arreau)Bakery — 3.3 km SE (Arreau)Primary school — 3.5 km SE (Arreau)Pharmacy — 5.0 km NE (Sarrancolin)
GP — 3.1 km SEFood shop — 3.2 km SEBakery — 3.3 km SEPrimary school — 3.5 km SEPharmacy — 5.0 km NE 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 (Arreau): 3.3 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Arreau): 3.2 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

GP (Arreau): 3.1 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Sarrancolin): 5 km to the north-east (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Arreau): 3.5 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 131 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the ARREAU BORDERES weather station, 4.1 km away at 720 m; the village itself is at 941 m. [10]

The village sits 221 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.7 °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 0 days a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at BAZUS-AURE, 8.2 km away at 767 m, over 18 summers. [10]

That station sits 174 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [10]

An average of 941 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 7.5 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at ARREAU BORDERES, 4.1 km away at 720 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65039/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65039/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65039/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65039/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 65031
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 65408
  10. 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
La Frasnée39591 km NE4115No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 28 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Bonnet-les-Tours-de-Merle19274 km NE418.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 9 % · humidity 100 %
Lichères-sur-Yonne89569 km NE4910.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 1 % · humidity 86 %
Julianges48325 km NE509.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 38 %
Riboux83442 km E5119.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 3 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Le Bourguet83508 km E4219.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Saint-Bonnet-les-Tours-de-Merle19274 km NE418.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 9 % · humidity 100 %
Julianges48325 km NE509.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 38 %
Riboux83442 km E5119.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 3 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Le Bourguet83508 km E4219.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Lichères-sur-Yonne89569 km NE4910.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 1 % · humidity 86 %
La Frasnée39591 km NE4115No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 28 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Aspin-Aure'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
Lagarde-d'Apt84430 km E3012.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Châtel-de-Joux39588 km NE475.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Barrancoueu652.5 km S409.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Collat43367 km NE7712.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Chastanier48339 km NE769.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Camparan6510 km S516.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %