Tostat

Hautes-Pyrénées · CC Adour Madiran · INSEE 65446

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

Few services 34.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 70 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Tostat (INSEE 65446) is in Hautes-Pyrénées (65), part of CC Adour Madiran. Population 550 (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 34.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 70 % of the 17,522 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.6	10	6.02
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.84

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 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 1 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 food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (MARIE ERNESTINE DAVID). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (LE FERME DU PORC SAIN). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	MARIE ERNESTINE DAVID	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	LE FERME DU PORC SAIN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 338 2023: 550 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 473 (2012) → 550 (2023): 16.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 499 (1990) → 550 (2023): 10.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 248, of which 1.6 % second homes and 8.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 2.8 km SWPharmacy — 3.1 km W 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 (Tostat): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Tostat): 0.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Andrest): 2.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Andrest): 3.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Tostat): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

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, 6.8 km away at 219 m; the village itself is at 248 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at VIC EN BIGORRE, 6.8 km away at 219 m, over 29 summers. ^[10]

An average of 911 mm of rain a year, spread over 116 days — about 7.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at VIC EN BIGORRE, 6.8 km away at 219 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65446/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65446/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65446/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65446/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 65446
INSEE BPE 2025 — 65007
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
Moncel-sur-Seille	54	776 km NE	548	28.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 81 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Albain	71	510 km NE	550	49.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 93 % · humidity 50 %
Coulommes	77	656 km N	542	33	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 100 % · humidity 36 %
Ouilly-le-Tesson	14	630 km N	571	28.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 81 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Clément-de-Régnat	63	390 km NE	516	30.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 72 % · humidity 43 %
Fresne-le-Plan	76	683 km N	554	32.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 89 % · humidity 36 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Clément-de-Régnat	63	390 km NE	516	30.6	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 72 % · humidity 43 %
Saint-Albain	71	510 km NE	550	49.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 93 % · humidity 50 %
Ouilly-le-Tesson	14	630 km N	571	28.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 81 % · humidity 36 %
Coulommes	77	656 km N	542	33	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 100 % · humidity 36 %
Fresne-le-Plan	76	683 km N	554	32.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 89 % · humidity 36 %
Moncel-sur-Seille	54	776 km NE	548	28.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 81 % · 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 Tostat'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
Lagarde	65	6.0 km SW	530	22.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Bieujac	33	136 km N	654	31.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-de-Sescas	33	140 km N	558	22.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Loupiac-de-la-Réole	33	136 km N	527	34.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Fontet	33	137 km N	746	34.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Moragne	17	303 km N	536	22.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %

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