Rabastens-de-Bigorre

Hautes-Pyrénées · CC Adour Madiran · INSEE 65375

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

Partly served 56.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 89 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Rabastens-de-Bigorre (INSEE 65375) is in Hautes-Pyrénées (65), part of CC Adour Madiran. Population 1,483 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 56.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 89 % of the 11,710 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	0.47	25	11.83
Social	0.59	20	11.7
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.75	10	7.48
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.65	10	6.55
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.71

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 2 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE ESQUINANCE · MENVIELLE). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (SOC EXPL BOUCHERIE GAILLAT). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (CARREFOUR CONTACT). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (A TABLE). ^[3,4]

3 × Café / bar (LA BELLE EPOQUE · LA VINOTHEQUE · CAFE DE L'UNIVERS). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE JACQUES PREVERT). ^[3]

4 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JEAN-CHRISTOPHE JOULIE, MÉDECIN · LAURENT BARON, MÉDECIN · XAVIER DANIEL, MÉDECIN · JOEL FAUCHE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

2 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE BERDOUES · PHARMACIE GERBET). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (L'UNIV'HAIR DE JESS). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 3 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Nursery school (maternelle). ^[4,3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	BOULANGERIE ESQUINANCE · MENVIELLE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	SOC EXPL BOUCHERIE GAILLAT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Supermarket	1	CARREFOUR CONTACT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	1	A TABLE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	3	LA BELLE EPOQUE · LA VINOTHEQUE · CAFE DE L'UNIVERS	INSEE SIRENE 3 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE JACQUES PREVERT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	4	JEAN-CHRISTOPHE JOULIE, MÉDECIN · LAURENT BARON, MÉDECIN · XAVIER DANIEL, MÉDECIN · JOEL FAUCHE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Pharmacy	2	PHARMACIE BERDOUES · PHARMACIE GERBET	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	3	L'UNIV'HAIR DE JESS	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

Weekly market (reported, unverified): Monday. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 1,083 2023: 1,483 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,465 (2012) → 1,483 (2023): 1.2 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 1,284 (1990) → 1,483 (2023): 15.5 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 792, of which 2.9 % second homes and 11.5 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Rabastens-de-Bigorre): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Rabastens-de-Bigorre): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Rabastens-de-Bigorre): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Rabastens-de-Bigorre): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Rabastens-de-Bigorre): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 25.4

Days at or below 0 °C 47.5

Muggy days a summer 9.6

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 25 days a year at or above 30 °C and 48 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the VIC EN BIGORRE weather station, 8.6 km away at 219 m; the village itself is at 216 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at VIC EN BIGORRE, 8.6 km away at 219 m, over 29 summers. ^[10]

An average of 863 mm of rain a year, spread over 114 days — about 7.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at RABASTENS DE B, 0.1 km away at 217 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

The market day comes from DATAtourisme and has not been confirmed by a second source. ^[5]

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65375/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2026-07— https://data.datatourisme.fr/36/2b6d4573-2888-38b1-ac3c-5c16a04462ce— “Chaque lundi matin, la Halle de Rabastens-de-Bigorre s'anime !”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65375/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65375/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65375/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 65375
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
Bollezeele	59	848 km N	1,445	57.5	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 89 % · humidity 36 %
Briouze	61	592 km N	1,512	64.9	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 93 % · humidity 36 %
Aubigny-en-Artois	62	796 km N	1,489	59.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 80 % · humidity 43 %
Villersexel	70	674 km NE	1,431	61.2	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 68 % · humidity 43 %
Villers-Bocage	80	753 km N	1,545	61	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 100 % · humidity 36 %
Mervans	71	548 km NE	1,485	54.7	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 74 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Mervans	71	548 km NE	1,485	54.7	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 95 % · winter 74 %
Briouze	61	592 km N	1,512	64.9	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 93 % · humidity 36 %
Villersexel	70	674 km NE	1,431	61.2	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 68 % · humidity 43 %
Villers-Bocage	80	753 km N	1,545	61	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 100 % · humidity 36 %
Aubigny-en-Artois	62	796 km N	1,489	59.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 80 % · humidity 43 %
Bollezeele	59	848 km N	1,445	57.5	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 89 % · humidity 36 %

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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 Rabastens-de-Bigorre'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
Soumoulou	64	31 km SW	1,583	61.8	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Caudrot	33	134 km N	1,134	50.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Masseube	32	35 km E	1,511	48.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Seissan	32	38 km E	1,097	46.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Tournay	65	24 km S	1,362	60.4	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Arthez-de-Béarn	64	63 km W	1,837	55.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %

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