Cantaous

Hautes-Pyrénées · CC Neste Barousse · INSEE 65482

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

Few services 30.4/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 65 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Cantaous (INSEE 65482) is in Hautes-Pyrénées (65), part of CC Neste Barousse. Population 424 (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 30.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 65 % of the 17,961 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.86	10	8.65
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.4	10	3.98
Housing mix	0.91	5	4.55

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]

2 × Restaurant (LA ROTISSERIE D'AUTREFOIS · LES CREPES A NONO). ^[3,4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINT-JOSEPH). ^[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, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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	2	LA ROTISSERIE D'AUTREFOIS · LES CREPES A NONO	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINT-JOSEPH	INSEE BPE 2 [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: 368 peak 1990: 472 2023: 424 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 441 (2012) → 424 (2023): -3.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 472 (1990) → 424 (2023): -10.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 221, of which 4.5 % second homes and 12.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 1.8 km NFood shop — 1.8 km NGP — 4.2 km SEPharmacy — 4.4 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 (Pinas): 1.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Pinas): 1.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Laurent-de-Neste): 4.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Laurent-de-Neste): 4.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Cantaous): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 10.3

Days at or below 0 °C 33.8

Muggy days a summer 3.6

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 10 days a year at or above 30 °C and 34 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LANNEMEZAN weather station, 2.7 km away at 638 m; the village itself is at 587 m. ^[11]

The village sits 51 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at CAMPISTROUS, 6.8 km away at 593 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,208 mm of rain a year, spread over 135 days — about 8.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LANNEMEZAN, 2.7 km away at 638 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65482/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65482/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65482/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 65482/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 65363
INSEE BPE 2025 — 65389
INSEE BPE 2025 — 65482
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
Rosnay	51	733 km N	423	32	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 53 % · humidity 79 %
Boutervilliers	91	608 km N	429	32.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 78 % · humidity 79 %
Burcin	38	475 km NE	430	26.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 38 % · humidity 71 %
Mennessis	02	764 km N	419	27.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 62 % · humidity 79 %
La Rivière	33	213 km N	409	29.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Igny-Comblizy	51	705 km N	431	27.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 81 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Rivière	33	213 km N	409	29.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Burcin	38	475 km NE	430	26.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 38 % · humidity 71 %
Boutervilliers	91	608 km N	429	32.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 78 % · humidity 79 %
Igny-Comblizy	51	705 km N	431	27.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 81 % · humidity 79 %
Rosnay	51	733 km N	423	32	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 53 % · humidity 79 %
Mennessis	02	764 km N	419	27.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 62 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Cantaous'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
Pézarches	77	657 km N	410	32.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
La Haie-Traversaine	53	591 km N	468	28.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Frévin-Capelle	62	823 km N	400	25.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Berles-Monchel	62	821 km N	482	27.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Loire-les-Marais	17	340 km N	381	28.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Morette	38	467 km NE	358	27.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %

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