Arignac

Ariège · CC du Pays de Tarascon · INSEE 09015

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

Few services 28.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 39 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Arignac (INSEE 09015) is in Ariège (09), part of CC du Pays de Tarascon. Population 719 (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/09015-arignac

Vitality score

Vitality score 28.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 39 % of the 16,282 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.65	10	6.49
Housing mix	0.63	5	3.14

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 1 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”.

A school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (CAMPING LA BERNIERE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE INTERCOMMUNALE D'ARIGNAC). ^[3]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING LA BERNIERE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × 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. ^[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	1	CAMPING LA BERNIERE	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 PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE INTERCOMMUNALE D'ARIGNAC	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	CAMPING LA BERNIERE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 502 peak 2012: 723 2023: 719 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 723 (2012) → 719 (2023): -0.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 626 (1990) → 719 (2023): 14.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 458, of which 18.6 % second homes and 8.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.2 km SGP — 2.4 km EFood shop — 2.5 km SPharmacy — 2.6 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 (Tarascon-sur-Ariège): 2.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Tarascon-sur-Ariège): 2.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Mercus-Garrabet): 2.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Tarascon-sur-Ariège): 2.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Arignac): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 19.6

Days at or below 0 °C 71.5

Muggy days a summer 4.5

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 72 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the TARASCON SUR AR weather station, 2.2 km away at 475 m; the village itself is at 511 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at COS, 11.4 km away at 519 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

An average of 803 mm of rain a year, spread over 108 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at TARASCON SUR AR, 2.2 km away at 475 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 — 09015/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09015/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09015/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09015/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09306
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09188
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09015
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
Bazoches-sur-Guyonne	78	657 km N	721	32.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 54 % · humidity 71 %
Marolles	14	703 km N	749	33.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 66 %
Buthiers	77	606 km N	792	32.2	Few services	no figures
Béduer	46	192 km N	749	29.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 47 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Philbert-des-Champs	14	712 km N	639	27.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 66 % · humidity 86 %
Ronno	69	411 km NE	658	32.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 70 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Béduer	46	192 km N	749	29.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 47 % · humidity 86 %
Ronno	69	411 km NE	658	32.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 70 % · humidity 71 %
Buthiers	77	606 km N	792	32.2	Few services	no figures
Bazoches-sur-Guyonne	78	657 km N	721	32.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 54 % · humidity 71 %
Marolles	14	703 km N	749	33.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 66 %
Saint-Philbert-des-Champs	14	712 km N	639	27.7	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 66 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Arignac'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
Saint-Martin-le-Châtel	01	471 km NE	796	33.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Moussey	10	625 km N	656	34.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Martin-Terressus	87	339 km N	593	28.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Mesnil-Sellières	10	641 km N	568	34.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Illhaeusern	68	745 km NE	717	32.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Ormes	71	496 km NE	507	30	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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