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Viscos

Hautes-Pyrénées · CC Pyrénées Vallées des Gaves · INSEE 65478

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

No daily shops 7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 23 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Viscos (INSEE 65478) is in Hautes-Pyrénées (65), part of CC Pyrénées Vallées des Gaves. Population 35 (2023). [1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). [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 7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 23 % of the 2,719 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 trend0.59105.94
Housing mix050

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 × Hotel (LA GRANGE AUX MARMOTTES). [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]
Hotel1LA GRANGE AUX MARMOTTESINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 63 2023: 35 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 43 (2012) → 35 (2023): -18.6 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 32 (1990) → 35 (2023): 9.4 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 57, of which 66.7 % second homes and 1.8 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 3.3 km SE (Saligos)Food shop — 4.6 km W (Cauterets)Primary school — 5.1 km N (Villelongue)GP — 5.1 km SE (Luz-Saint-Sauveur)Pharmacy — 5.2 km SE (Esquièze-Sère)
Bakery — 3.3 km SEFood shop — 4.6 km WPrimary school — 5.1 km NGP — 5.1 km SEPharmacy — 5.2 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 (Saligos): 3.3 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Cauterets): 4.6 km to the west (straight line). [9]

GP (Luz-Saint-Sauveur): 5.1 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Esquièze-Sère): 5.2 km to the south-east (straight line). [11]

Primary school (Villelongue): 5.1 km to the north (straight line). [12]

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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 60 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. [13]

Measured at the CAUTERETS - CENTRE VILLE weather station, 6.1 km away at 911 m; the village itself is at 856 m. [13]

The village sits 55 m below 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. [13]

An average of 1,565 mm of rain a year, spread over 145 days — about 10.8 mm on a day it rains. [13]

Rainfall measured at CAUTERETS CATTARABES, 5.8 km away at 1,057 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65478/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65478/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65478/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65478/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 65399
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 65138
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 65295
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 65168
  12. INSEE BPE 2025 — 65473
  13. 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
Vaychis09152 km E3610.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 19 %
Mantet66198 km E3510No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 0 %
Tauriac-de-Camarès12267 km E351.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 56 % · winter 49 %
La Montagne70760 km NE378.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 47 %
Revens30300 km NE378.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 95 %
Ferrère6548 km E383.1No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 82 % · winter 91 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Ferrère6548 km E383.1No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 82 % · winter 91 %
Vaychis09152 km E3610.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 19 %
Mantet66198 km E3510No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 0 %
Tauriac-de-Camarès12267 km E351.5No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 56 % · winter 49 %
Revens30300 km NE378.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 95 %
La Montagne70760 km NE378.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 97 % · winter 47 %

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