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Castéra-Lanusse

Hautes-Pyrénées · CC des Coteaux du Val d'Arros · INSEE 65132

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

No daily shops 17.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 89 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Castéra-Lanusse (INSEE 65132) is in Hautes-Pyrénées (65), part of CC des Coteaux du Val d'Arros. Population 45 (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/65132-castera-lanusse

Vitality score

Vitality score 17.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 89 % of the 4,093 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 trend11010
Housing mix0.9154.57

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: 34 peak 2012: 48 2023: 45 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 48 (2012) → 45 (2023): -6.2 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 30 (1990) → 45 (2023): 50 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 23, of which 4.3 % second homes and 4.3 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 2.0 km W (Lanespède)Primary school — 3.3 km NE (Burg)Pharmacy — 4.1 km W (Tournay)Bakery — 4.3 km W (Tournay)GP — 4.6 km W (Tournay)
Food shop — 2.0 km WPrimary school — 3.3 km NEPharmacy — 4.1 km WBakery — 4.3 km WGP — 4.6 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 (Tournay): 4.3 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Lanespède): 2 km to the west (straight line). [9]

GP (Tournay): 4.6 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Tournay): 4.1 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Burg): 3.3 km to the north-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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 61 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the TOURNAY weather station, 4.1 km away at 267 m; the village itself is at 517 m. [11]

The village sits 250 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. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at CAMPISTROUS, 7.8 km away at 593 m, over 30 summers. [11]

That station sits 76 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [11]

An average of 1,046 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 8.5 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at TOURNAY, 4.1 km away at 267 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

What property sold for

No price figures: fewer than five comparable sales were registered here between 2021 and 2025. A median of two sales is not a median. [12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65132/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65132/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65132/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65132/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 65447
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 65256
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 65113
  11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
  12. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Chapelaine51683 km NE4514.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Marcellois21574 km NE4517.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 71 %
Montépreux51684 km NE459No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 88 % · humidity 79 %
Courbette39563 km NE4411.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Bratte54776 km NE4612.3No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 66 % · humidity 71 %
Duzey55801 km NE4615.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 79 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Courbette39563 km NE4411.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Marcellois21574 km NE4517.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 71 %
Chapelaine51683 km NE4514.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Montépreux51684 km NE459No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 88 % · humidity 79 %
Bratte54776 km NE4612.3No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 66 % · humidity 71 %
Duzey55801 km NE4615.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Castéra-Lanusse'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
Chapelaine51683 km NE4514.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Fresnay10668 km NE4910.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Paroy-sur-Saulx52707 km NE439.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Germay52702 km NE497.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Dommartin-le-Coq10671 km NE497.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Laran6517 km NE4610.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %