Salles

Hautes-Pyrénées · CC Pyrénées Vallées des Gaves · INSEE 65400

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

Few services 25.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 72 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Salles (INSEE 65400) is in Hautes-Pyrénées (65), part of CC Pyrénées Vallées des Gaves. Population 258 (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/65400-salles

Vitality score

Vitality score 25.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 72 % of the 17,323 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.86	10	8.58
Housing mix	0.16	5	0.8

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (AUBERGE DU BERGONS). ^[3,4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), 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	1	AUBERGE DU BERGONS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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: 225 2023: 258 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 205 (2012) → 258 (2023): 25.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 190 (1990) → 258 (2023): 35.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 219, of which 42 % second homes and 3.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 2.1 km EFood shop — 2.2 km SEBakery — 2.9 km SEPharmacy — 3.5 km SE 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): 2.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Ayzac-Ost): 2.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Ayzac-Ost): 2.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Argelès-Gazost): 3.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Salles): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 15.2

Days at or below 0 °C 37.3

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 37 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the AYROS ARBOUIX weather station, 5.4 km away at 478 m; the village itself is at 627 m. ^[11]

The village sits 149 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 1,085 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 8.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at AYROS ARBOUIX, 5.4 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

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65400/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65400/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65400/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65400/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 65025
INSEE BPE 2025 — 65056
INSEE BPE 2025 — 65400
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
Issirac	30	395 km E	321	27.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 3 % · winter 54 %
Niozelles	04	491 km E	274	32.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 0 % · winter 32 %
Aiguebelette-le-Lac	73	548 km NE	255	23.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 66 %
Lanloup	22	669 km N	252	20.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 69 % · winter 78 %
Saint-Vincent-de-Durfort	07	430 km NE	274	23.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 69 %
Lées-Athas	64	41 km W	229	13.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 97 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Lées-Athas	64	41 km W	229	13.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 92 % · winter 97 %
Issirac	30	395 km E	321	27.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 3 % · winter 54 %
Saint-Vincent-de-Durfort	07	430 km NE	274	23.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 69 %
Niozelles	04	491 km E	274	32.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 0 % · winter 32 %
Aiguebelette-le-Lac	73	548 km NE	255	23.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 66 %
Lanloup	22	669 km N	252	20.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 69 % · winter 78 %

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