Béthines

Vienne · CC Vienne et Gartempe · INSEE 86025

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

Few services 31.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 65 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Béthines (INSEE 86025) is in Vienne (86), part of CC Vienne et Gartempe. Population 467 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/86025-bethines

Vitality score

Vitality score 31.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 65 % of the 17,931 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.36	10	3.63
Housing mix	0.69	5	3.45

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (CHEZ ANNETTE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (BETHINES RP). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	CHEZ ANNETTE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DE BETHINES	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	1	BETHINES RP	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 758 2023: 467 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 480 (2012) → 467 (2023): -2.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 541 (1990) → 467 (2023): -13.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 304, of which 15.5 % second homes and 17.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 8.2 km WPharmacy — 8.5 km WBakery — 8.6 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 (Saint-Savin): 8.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Béthines): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Germain): 8.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Savin): 8.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Béthines): 0.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 19.9

Days at or below 0 °C 51.4

Muggy days a summer 4.8

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 20 days a year at or above 30 °C and 51 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the JOURNET weather station, 7.6 km away at 120 m; the village itself is at 108 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at JOURNET, 7.6 km away at 120 m, over 10 summers. ^[11]

An average of 762 mm of rain a year, spread over 120 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at JOURNET, 7.6 km away at 120 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 — 86025/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86025/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86025/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 86025/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 86246
INSEE BPE 2025 — 86025
INSEE BPE 2025 — 86223
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-Mars-sur-la-Futaie	53	257 km NW	522	30.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 80 % · humidity 71 %
Échourgnac	24	168 km S	395	32.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 93 % · humidity 71 %
Campsegret	24	182 km S	407	36.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Diéry	63	193 km SE	546	38.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 82 % · humidity 64 %
La Sauvetat	32	302 km S	403	35.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 70 % · humidity 57 %
Villars	24	127 km S	470	24.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Villars	24	127 km S	470	24.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Échourgnac	24	168 km S	395	32.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 93 % · humidity 71 %
Campsegret	24	182 km S	407	36.5	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Diéry	63	193 km SE	546	38.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 82 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Mars-sur-la-Futaie	53	257 km NW	522	30.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 80 % · humidity 71 %
La Sauvetat	32	302 km S	403	35.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 70 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Béthines'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
Le Breuil	03	210 km E	524	25.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Neuvy-Bouin	79	111 km W	487	26.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Monléon-Magnoac	65	368 km S	405	31.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Millac	86	45 km SW	462	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Sauveterre-de-Comminges	31	392 km S	702	26.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Lesterps	16	62 km S	439	15	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %

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