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Fréchet-Aure

Hautes-Pyrénées · CC Aure Louron · INSEE 65180

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

No daily shops 6.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 38 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Fréchet-Aure (INSEE 65180) is in Hautes-Pyrénées (65), part of CC Aure Louron. Population 16 (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/65180-frechet-aure

Vitality score

Vitality score 6.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 38 % of the 567 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 trend0.57105.67
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: 15 2023: 16 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 13 (2012) → 16 (2023): 23.1 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 15 (1990) → 16 (2023): 6.7 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 21, of which 57.1 % second homes and 4.8 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmGP — 2.9 km S (Arreau)Bakery — 3.1 km S (Arreau)Food shop — 3.1 km S (Arreau)Primary school — 3.4 km S (Arreau)Pharmacy — 4.0 km N (Sarrancolin)
GP — 2.9 km SBakery — 3.1 km SFood shop — 3.1 km SPrimary school — 3.4 km SPharmacy — 4.0 km N 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): 3.1 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Arreau): 3.1 km to the south (straight line). [8]

GP (Arreau): 2.9 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Sarrancolin): 4 km to the north (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Arreau): 3.4 km to the south (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 11 days a year at or above 30 °C and 109 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the ARREAU BORDERES weather station, 3.6 km away at 720 m; the village itself is at 749 m. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at BAZUS-AURE, 8.4 km away at 767 m, over 18 summers. [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, 3.6 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 — 65180/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65180/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65180/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65180/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
Monnetay39564 km NE174.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Piano2B740 km E170No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 26 % · humidity 86 %
Voncourt52674 km NE171No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 36 % · humidity 79 %
Menesble21644 km NE179.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 15 %
Beaufin38493 km NE193.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 99 %
Le Mesnil-Durdent76766 km N184.7No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Beaufin38493 km NE193.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 99 %
Monnetay39564 km NE174.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Menesble21644 km NE179.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 15 %
Voncourt52674 km NE171No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 36 % · humidity 79 %
Piano2B740 km E170No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 26 % · humidity 86 %
Le Mesnil-Durdent76766 km N184.7No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 0 % · 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 Fréchet-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
Monnetay39564 km NE174.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Sode3124 km SE185.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Larnat09104 km E199No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Génat0999 km E248.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Champ-Laurent73546 km NE318.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Ens6514 km S2812.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %