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Ourdis-Cotdoussan

Hautes-Pyrénées · CA Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées · INSEE 65348

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

No daily shops 3.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 4 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ourdis-Cotdoussan (INSEE 65348) is in Hautes-Pyrénées (65), part of CA Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées. Population 41 (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/65348-ourdis-cotdoussan

Vitality score

Vitality score 3.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 4 % of the 3,513 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 trend0.27102.74
Housing mix0.0350.13

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: 47 peak 1990: 53 2023: 41 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 49 (2012) → 41 (2023): -16.3 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 53 (1990) → 41 (2023): -22.6 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 39, of which 48.7 % second homes and 2.6 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 2.7 km E (Germs-sur-l'Oussouet)Food shop — 3.8 km E (Bagnères-de-Bigorre)Bakery — 6.9 km NW (Lourdes)Pharmacy — 6.9 km NW (Lourdes)GP — 7.0 km NW (Lourdes)
Primary school — 2.7 km EFood shop — 3.8 km EBakery — 6.9 km NWPharmacy — 6.9 km NWGP — 7.0 km NW 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 (Lourdes): 6.9 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Bagnères-de-Bigorre): 3.8 km to the east (straight line). [9]

GP (Lourdes): 7 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Lourdes): 6.9 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Germs-sur-l'Oussouet): 2.7 km to the east (straight line). [10]

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 43 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the AYROS ARBOUIX weather station, 9.3 km away at 478 m; the village itself is at 666 m. [11]

The village sits 188 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. [11]

An average of 1,439 mm of rain a year, spread over 140 days — about 10.3 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at LOURDES-SERRES, 7.3 km away at 415 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65348/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65348/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65348/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65348/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 65286
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 65059
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 65200
  11. 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
Villeneuve0979 km E429.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 73 %
Gaudent6545 km E419.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 93 %
Quincerot89632 km NE462.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 85 %
Vernaux09145 km E365.3No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 16 %
Châtas88803 km NE344No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 73 %
Sère-Lanso652.7 km NW371.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 89 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Sère-Lanso652.7 km NW371.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 95 % · winter 89 %
Gaudent6545 km E419.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 93 %
Villeneuve0979 km E429.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 73 %
Vernaux09145 km E365.3No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 16 %
Quincerot89632 km NE462.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 85 %
Châtas88803 km NE344No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 73 %

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