Bessens

Tarn-et-Garonne · CC Grand Sud Tarn-et-Garonne · INSEE 82017

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

Few services 36.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 39 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bessens (INSEE 82017) is in Tarn-et-Garonne (82), part of CC Grand Sud Tarn-et-Garonne. Population 1,470 (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/82017-bessens

Vitality score

Vitality score 36.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 39 % of the 11,804 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	0.34	25	8.55
Social	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.86

Services

What is here, at a glance

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

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (MADEMOISELLE A. PATISSERIE · LA BOULANGE DE BESSENS). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (CHEZ JAMIE). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (L'OLIVIER DE BESSENS). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE PIERRE GAMARRA). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: 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)	2	MADEMOISELLE A. PATISSERIE · LA BOULANGE DE BESSENS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	CHEZ JAMIE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	L'OLIVIER DE BESSENS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE PIERRE GAMARRA	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	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 SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 444 peak 2017: 1,506 2023: 1,470 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,449 (2012) → 1,470 (2023): 1.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 585 (1990) → 1,470 (2023): 151.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 581, of which 1.4 % second homes and 2.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 0.5 km EBakery — 0.8 km NGP — 3.5 km SWPharmacy — 3.5 km S 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 (Bessens): 0.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bessens): 0.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Verdun-sur-Garonne): 3.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Verdun-sur-Garonne): 3.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 35

Days at or below 0 °C 45.7

Muggy days a summer 5.9

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 35 days a year at or above 30 °C and 46 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the SAVENES_MAN weather station, 6 km away at 117 m; the village itself is at 100 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at SAVENES, 8.7 km away at 156 m, over 23 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 56 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 678 mm of rain a year, spread over 97 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at MONBEQUI, 2 km away at 99 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 — 82017/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 82017/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 82017/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 82017/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 82017
INSEE BPE 2025 — 82190
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
Saint-Pierre-du-Regard	61	569 km N	1,321	26.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 96 % · humidity 64 %
Montagnieu	38	379 km NE	1,179	34.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 28 % · humidity 64 %
Beaumont-Monteux	26	318 km NE	1,394	43.8	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 80 % · humidity 86 %
Les Magnils-Reigniers	85	348 km NW	1,486	28.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 59 % · winter 77 %
Taponnat-Fleurignac	16	222 km N	1,593	28.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Boutiers-Saint-Trojan	16	238 km NW	1,387	23	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 77 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Taponnat-Fleurignac	16	222 km N	1,593	28.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Boutiers-Saint-Trojan	16	238 km NW	1,387	23	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 77 % · humidity 86 %
Beaumont-Monteux	26	318 km NE	1,394	43.8	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 80 % · humidity 86 %
Les Magnils-Reigniers	85	348 km NW	1,486	28.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 59 % · winter 77 %
Montagnieu	38	379 km NE	1,179	34.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 28 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Pierre-du-Regard	61	569 km N	1,321	26.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 96 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Bessens'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
Lédat	47	79 km NW	1,431	35	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Ambres	81	48 km E	1,033	32.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Bonrepos-sur-Aussonnelle	31	38 km S	1,241	38.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Beauchalot	31	91 km S	662	44.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Chassors	16	234 km NW	1,123	20.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Gironde-sur-Dropt	33	133 km NW	1,333	45.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %

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