Permanent database of facilities 

BPE

The permanent database of facilities (BPE) is a statistical database. It lists a wide range of facilities and services, whether commercial or not, accessible to the public throughout France on January, 1st each year.

In 2023, it covers 209 different types of services and facilities, divided into seven main groups : services for individuals, businesses, education, health and social services, transport-travel, sports-leisure-culture and tourism. 

The BPE is based on various administrative sources. It collects data on access points to services intended for the population, or facilities, located at fine geographical levels : municipalities, sub-municipal areas (Iris) and coordinates (x,y).

Thanks to the detailed knowledge of the territories it provides, BPE is a decision-making aid tool. In particular, it makes it possible to study the structure of service provision in a territory: the volume of facilities, presence or absence, concentration or dispersion, identification of service centres or areas without service, calculation of distances between equipped and not equipped municipalities, calculation of facilities rates by bringing together facilities and its potential users, setting up of facilities baskets on a particular topic, etc.

The BPE also offers a grid for reading the territories by grouping certain types of facilities into sets called ranges : the ranges bring together facilities that present similar logics of implantation, in the sense that they are frequently present in the same municipalities. These groupings make it possible to develop synthetic indicators reflecting the hierarchical organization of the territories in terms of services to the population.

Since September 2018, data on BPE have been released in evolution throughout the territory, except for Mayotte. They cover a limited number of types of facilities and two years at five-year intervals : 2012-2017, 2013-2018, 2014-2019, 2015-2020, 2016-2021, 2018-2023.

The permanent database of facilities replaces the municipal inventory, which was last carried out in 1998. Its first diffusion concerns data from 2007. It is updated each year, instead of every 8 to 10 years with the municipal inventory. The BPE also lists a greater variety of equipment (209 in 2023 instead of 36 in 1998) ; their location is also more accurate, in Iris or even in coordinates (x, y).

It covers the Metropolitan France and the five overseas departments.

Since 2018, an evolution database on a five-year period has been uploaded each year, covering a limited number of types of equipment, determined each year following a valuation.

Municipality Inventory

Administrative data

Annual