Gardères

Hautes-Pyrénées · CA Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées · INSEE 65185

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

Few services 24.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 45 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Gardères (INSEE 65185) is in Hautes-Pyrénées (65), part of CA Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées. Population 445 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/65185-garderes

Vitality score

Vitality score 24.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 45 % of the 17,952 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.62	10	6.24
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.82

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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”.

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

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (GARDERES AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (IMPRO'TIFS). ^[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, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[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]
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)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	GARDERES AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	IMPRO'TIFS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 363 2023: 445 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 432 (2012) → 445 (2023): 3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 396 (1990) → 445 (2023): 12.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 228, of which 1.8 % second homes and 8.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 5.6 km SEPharmacy — 5.6 km SEBakery — 5.7 km SEGP — 5.7 km SE 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 (Ger): 5.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Ger): 5.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Ger): 5.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Ger): 5.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Gardères): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 16.8

Days at or below 0 °C 38.1

Muggy days a summer 6.5

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 17 days a year at or above 30 °C and 38 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the TARBES-LOURDES-PYRENEES weather station, 13.6 km away at 360 m; the village itself is at 403 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at TARBES-LOURDES-PYRENEES, 13.6 km away at 360 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,064 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 8.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at TARBES-LOURDES-PYRENEES, 13.6 km away at 360 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65185/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65185/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65185/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65185/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 64238
INSEE BPE 2025 — 65185
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
Pondaurat	33	140 km N	455	25.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Bucy-lès-Pierrepont	02	771 km N	410	22	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 68 % · humidity 57 %
Savonnières-en-Perthois	55	717 km NE	398	21.2	Few services	no figures
Vallant-Saint-Georges	10	655 km NE	408	23.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 72 % · humidity 57 %
Simacourbe	64	19 km N	424	27	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 76 %
Amifontaine	02	756 km NE	391	24.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 74 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Simacourbe	64	19 km N	424	27	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 76 %
Pondaurat	33	140 km N	455	25.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Vallant-Saint-Georges	10	655 km NE	408	23.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 72 % · humidity 57 %
Savonnières-en-Perthois	55	717 km NE	398	21.2	Few services	no figures
Amifontaine	02	756 km NE	391	24.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 74 % · humidity 57 %
Bucy-lès-Pierrepont	02	771 km N	410	22	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 68 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Gardères'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
Écurat	17	282 km N	438	26.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Félix-de-Rieutord	09	147 km E	468	26.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Maigrin	17	238 km N	534	21.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Uzay-le-Venon	18	442 km NE	414	30	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Luquet	65	1.8 km SW	426	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Guitinières	17	242 km N	479	24.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %

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