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Ferrère

Hautes-Pyrénées · CC Neste Barousse · INSEE 65175

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

No daily shops 3.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 4 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ferrère (INSEE 65175) is in Hautes-Pyrénées (65), part of CC Neste Barousse. Population 38 (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/65175-ferrere

Vitality score

Vitality score 3.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 4 % of the 3,112 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 trend0.26102.6
Housing mix050

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: 100 2023: 38 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 57 (2012) → 38 (2023): -33.3 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 50 (1990) → 38 (2023): -24 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 89, of which 68.5 % second homes and 4.5 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 2.3 km E (Mauléon-Barousse)Food shop — 6.3 km NE (Anla)Primary school — 6.5 km E (Siradan)GP — 9.5 km NE (Loures-Barousse)Pharmacy — 9.6 km NE (Loures-Barousse)
Bakery — 2.3 km EFood shop — 6.3 km NEPrimary school — 6.5 km EGP — 9.5 km NEPharmacy — 9.6 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 (Mauléon-Barousse): 2.3 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Anla): 6.3 km to the north-east (straight line). [9]

GP (Loures-Barousse): 9.5 km to the north-east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Loures-Barousse): 9.6 km to the north-east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Siradan): 6.5 km to the east (straight line). [11]

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 13 days a year at or above 30 °C and 53 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the MAUL weather station, 2.9 km away at 565 m; the village itself is at 684 m. [12]

The village sits 119 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. [12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. [12]

Humidity measured at BAZUS-AURE, 18.8 km away at 767 m, over 18 summers. [12]

That station sits 83 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [12]

An average of 1,144 mm of rain a year, spread over 135 days — about 8.5 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at MAUL, 2.9 km away at 565 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65175/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65175/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65175/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65175/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 65305
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 65012
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 65287
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 65427
  12. 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
Stazzona2B725 km E386.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %
Bareilles6511 km SW392.2No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 0 % · humidity 100 %
Revens30256 km NE378.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Illier-et-Laramade0984 km E398.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %
Castiglione2B704 km E4011.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 13 % · winter 31 % · humidity 100 %
Vaychis09106 km E3610.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 9 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Bareilles6511 km SW392.2No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 0 % · humidity 100 %
Illier-et-Laramade0984 km E398.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %
Vaychis09106 km E3610.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 9 % · humidity 100 %
Revens30256 km NE378.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Castiglione2B704 km E4011.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 13 % · winter 31 % · humidity 100 %
Stazzona2B725 km E386.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 64 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Ferrère'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
Revens30256 km NE378.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Signac319.3 km SE400.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Niort-de-Sault11121 km E341.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Lacapelle-Escroux81191 km NE483.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Lège3110 km SE321No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Vira66154 km E294.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %