Hèches

Hautes-Pyrénées · CC du Plateau de Lannemezan · INSEE 65218

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Few services 34.1/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 67 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Hèches (INSEE 65218) is in Hautes-Pyrénées (65), part of CC du Plateau de Lannemezan. Population 577 (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/65218-heches

Vitality score

Vitality score 34.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 67 % of the 17,303 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.54	10	5.43
Housing mix	0.04	5	0.19

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 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 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (NATURAL SHOP 65). ^[4,3]

2 × Restaurant (METI'SAJ). ^[4,3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (HECHES AP). ^[4]

1 × Library (LE RELAIS DE LA POSTE). ^[4]

1 × Hairdresser (PLEIN'HAIR). ^[4,3]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING LA BOURIE). ^[4,3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	NATURAL SHOP 65	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	2	METI'SAJ	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [4,3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	1	HECHES AP	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	1	LE RELAIS DE LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	1	PLEIN'HAIR	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	1	CAMPING LA BOURIE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,3]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 627 2023: 577 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 597 (2012) → 577 (2023): -3.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 553 (1990) → 577 (2023): 4.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 592, of which 48.1 % second homes and 2.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 5.5 km SPharmacy — 5.5 km SGP — 5.7 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 (Sarrancolin): 5.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Hèches): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

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

Pharmacy (Sarrancolin): 5.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Hèches): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 18.9

Days at or below 0 °C 80.3

Muggy days a summer 3.6

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 80 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LOMNE_SAPC weather station, 6.7 km away at 447 m; the village itself is at 637 m. ^[10]

The village sits 190 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at CAMPISTROUS, 12.4 km away at 593 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,226 mm of rain a year, spread over 138 days — about 8.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LOMNE_SAPC, 6.7 km away at 447 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65218/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65218/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65218/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65218/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 65408
INSEE BPE 2025 — 65218
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
Saint-Martin-aux-Buneaux	76	757 km N	633	31.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 56 % · winter 16 %
Lacoste	84	406 km E	468	36.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 59 % · humidity 79 %
Le Barroux	84	401 km E	662	42.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Valbonnais	38	490 km NE	520	37	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 53 % · humidity 71 %
Mialet	30	312 km NE	628	47.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Michel-en-Grève	22	700 km NW	447	38.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 8 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Mialet	30	312 km NE	628	47.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Le Barroux	84	401 km E	662	42.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Lacoste	84	406 km E	468	36.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 59 % · humidity 79 %
Valbonnais	38	490 km NE	520	37	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 53 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Michel-en-Grève	22	700 km NW	447	38.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 8 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Martin-aux-Buneaux	76	757 km N	633	31.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 56 % · winter 16 %

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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 Hèches'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
Soing-Cubry-Charentenay	70	665 km NE	555	36.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Rabat-les-Trois-Seigneurs	09	98 km E	379	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Le Vaudoué	77	617 km N	731	42	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Navour-sur-Grosne	71	499 km NE	660	36.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Betchat	09	53 km E	355	31.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Rouy	58	510 km NE	628	37.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %

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