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Préchac

Hautes-Pyrénées · CC Pyrénées Vallées des Gaves · INSEE 65371

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

No daily shops 10.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 13 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Préchac (INSEE 65371) is in Hautes-Pyrénées (65), part of CC Pyrénées Vallées des Gaves. Population 235 (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/65371-prechac

Vitality score

Vitality score 10.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 13 % of the 16,924 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 trend0.62106.24
Housing mix0.5752.87

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 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING HAUTACAM). [3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

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]
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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite1CAMPING HAUTACAMINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 127 peak 2012: 237 2023: 235 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 237 (2012) → 235 (2023): -0.8 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 209 (1990) → 235 (2023): 12.4 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 150, of which 21.3 % second homes and 4.7 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 1.3 km S (Beaucens)Primary school — 1.6 km NE (Ayros-Arbouix)Pharmacy — 2.2 km NW (Argelès-Gazost)Bakery — 2.7 km NW (Argelès-Gazost)GP — 2.7 km NW (Argelès-Gazost)
Food shop — 1.3 km SPrimary school — 1.6 km NEPharmacy — 2.2 km NWBakery — 2.7 km NWGP — 2.7 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 (Argelès-Gazost): 2.7 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Beaucens): 1.3 km to the south (straight line). [9]

GP (Argelès-Gazost): 2.7 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Argelès-Gazost): 2.2 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Ayros-Arbouix): 1.6 km to the north-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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 32 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the AYROS ARBOUIX weather station, 0.9 km away at 478 m; the village itself is at 436 m. [11]

An average of 1,085 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 8.6 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at AYROS ARBOUIX, 0.9 km away at 478 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 — 65371/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65371/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65371/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65371/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 65025
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 65077
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 65055
  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
Ville-Langy58521 km NE2366.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 42 %
Sainte-Marie-du-Mont38550 km NE24315.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 0 %
Ouzouer-le-Doyen41561 km N22610.3No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 82 %
Troguéry22686 km N2279.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 49 % · winter 74 %
Camboulit46242 km NE24510.5No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 97 %
Bournazel81205 km NE22315.1No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 88 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Bournazel81205 km NE22315.1No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 88 %
Camboulit46242 km NE24510.5No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 64 % · winter 97 %
Ville-Langy58521 km NE2366.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 42 %
Sainte-Marie-du-Mont38550 km NE24315.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 0 %
Ouzouer-le-Doyen41561 km N22610.3No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 82 %
Troguéry22686 km N2279.5No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.summer 49 % · winter 74 %

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Elsewhere

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