Castéra-Lou

Hautes-Pyrénées · CC des Coteaux du Val d'Arros · INSEE 65133

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

No daily shops 15.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 37 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Castéra-Lou (INSEE 65133) is in Hautes-Pyrénées (65), part of CC des Coteaux du Val d'Arros. Population 220 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 15.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 37 % of the 16,584 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	25	0
Social	0	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.85	10	8.5
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.78

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

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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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: 108 peak 2017: 231 2023: 220 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 210 (2012) → 220 (2023): 4.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 163 (1990) → 220 (2023): 35 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 92, of which 2.2 % second homes and 5.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 1.4 km NEFood shop — 3.9 km WBakery — 4.1 km WGP — 5.9 km SPharmacy — 5.9 km S 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 (Tostat): 4.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Tostat): 3.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Pouyastruc): 5.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Pouyastruc): 5.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Lescurry): 1.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 18.9

Days at or below 0 °C 21.3

Muggy days a summer 7.7

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 19 days a year at or above 30 °C and 21 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CASTELVIEILH weather station, 5.8 km away at 355 m; the village itself is at 307 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at VIC EN BIGORRE, 10 km away at 219 m, over 29 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 88 m below 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 942 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 7.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CASTELVIEILH, 5.8 km away at 355 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65133/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65133/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65133/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65133/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 65446
INSEE BPE 2025 — 65369
INSEE BPE 2025 — 65269
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
Loucelles	14	658 km N	221	17.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 91 % · humidity 50 %
Linay	08	800 km NE	220	13.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 31 % · humidity 50 %
Hablainville	54	769 km NE	220	15.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 28 % · humidity 50 %
Wisques	62	837 km N	222	9.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 62 % · winter 89 %
Fouencamps	80	743 km N	216	11.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 57 % · humidity 50 %
Menaucourt	55	716 km NE	221	9.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 39 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Loucelles	14	658 km N	221	17.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 91 % · humidity 50 %
Menaucourt	55	716 km NE	221	9.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 39 % · humidity 50 %
Fouencamps	80	743 km N	216	11.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 57 % · humidity 50 %
Hablainville	54	769 km NE	220	15.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 28 % · humidity 50 %
Linay	08	800 km NE	220	13.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 31 % · humidity 50 %
Wisques	62	837 km N	222	9.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 62 % · winter 89 %

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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-Lou'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
Lonçon	64	49 km W	221	17.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Louit	65	2.6 km S	194	17.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Castelvieilh	65	5.9 km SE	249	13.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Lacassagne	65	3.3 km N	251	14.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Villars-les-Bois	17	279 km N	257	11	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Coussa	09	128 km E	268	17.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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