Loubajac

Hautes-Pyrénées · CA Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées · INSEE 65280

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

Few services 21.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 35 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Loubajac (INSEE 65280) 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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 21.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 35 % 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	5	0
Population trend	0.7	10	7.03
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.84

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 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”.

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

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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)	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	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: 260 2023: 445 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 411 (2012) → 445 (2023): 8.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 370 (1990) → 445 (2023): 20.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 192, of which 1.6 % second homes and 7.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.3 km SGP — 3.3 km SEPharmacy — 3.5 km SEFood shop — 4.2 km E 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 (Poueyferré): 2.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Adé): 4.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Lourdes): 3.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Lourdes): 3.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Loubajac): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 27.6

Days at or below 0 °C 34.1

Muggy days a summer 5.2

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 28 days a year at or above 30 °C and 34 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the LOURDES weather station, 3.5 km away at 410 m; the village itself is at 417 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at TARBES-LOURDES-PYRENEES, 8.9 km away at 360 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 57 m below 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 1,385 mm of rain a year, spread over 145 days — about 9.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at LOURDES, 3.5 km away at 410 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65280/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65280/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65280/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65280/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 65366
INSEE BPE 2025 — 65002
INSEE BPE 2025 — 65286
INSEE BPE 2025 — 65280
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
Goupillières	76	722 km N	443	21.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 100 % · humidity 71 %
Fouqueville	27	682 km N	444	19.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 54 % · winter 69 %
Grainville-sur-Ry	76	713 km N	438	20.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 97 % · humidity 71 %
Bantouzelle	59	810 km N	441	21.9	Few services	no figures
Siarrouy	65	23 km NE	453	20.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 81 % · humidity 64 %
Tournedos-Bois-Hubert	27	666 km N	451	25	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 69 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Siarrouy	65	23 km NE	453	20.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 92 % · winter 81 % · humidity 64 %
Tournedos-Bois-Hubert	27	666 km N	451	25	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 69 % · humidity 71 %
Fouqueville	27	682 km N	444	19.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 54 % · winter 69 %
Grainville-sur-Ry	76	713 km N	438	20.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 97 % · humidity 71 %
Goupillières	76	722 km N	443	21.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 100 % · humidity 71 %
Bantouzelle	59	810 km N	441	21.9	Few services	no figures

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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 Loubajac'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
Gauré	31	149 km E	464	22.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Chalagnac	24	226 km N	442	22.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Bunzac	16	288 km N	447	22.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Faleyras	33	183 km N	430	23.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Vallesvilles	31	149 km E	462	23.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Seurin-de-Bourg	33	217 km N	414	23.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %

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