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Artigues

Ariège · CC de la Haute Ariège · INSEE 09020

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

No daily shops 18.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 95 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Artigues (INSEE 09020) is in Ariège (09), part of CC de la Haute Ariège. Population 30 (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/09020-artigues

Vitality score

Vitality score 18.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 95 % of the 2,079 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0.32206.32
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.93109.29
Housing mix050

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 1 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 0 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant (LE SAPIN ROUGE). [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant1LE SAPIN ROUGEINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 60 peak 2007: 69 2023: 30 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 48 (2012) → 30 (2023): -37.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 21 (1990) → 30 (2023): 42.9 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 108, of which 80.6 % second homes and 0.9 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

10 km20 kmPrimary school — 3.1 km SE (Quérigut)Food shop — 3.2 km SE (Quérigut)GP — 3.3 km SE (Quérigut)Bakery — 11.9 km S (Formiguères)Pharmacy — 12.4 km N (Espezel)
Primary school — 3.1 km SEFood shop — 3.2 km SEGP — 3.3 km SEBakery — 11.9 km SPharmacy — 12.4 km N 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 (Formiguères): 11.9 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Quérigut): 3.2 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

GP (Quérigut): 3.3 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Espezel): 12.4 km to the north (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Quérigut): 3.1 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 85 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the CARCANIERES weather station, 5.1 km away at 1,360 m; the village itself is at 1,165 m. [11]

The village sits 195 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]

An average of 945 mm of rain a year, spread over 115 days — about 8.2 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at CARCANIERES, 5.1 km away at 1,360 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09020/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09020/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09020/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09020/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 66082
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 09239
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 11130
  11. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Tramezaïgues65146 km W3014.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 73 %
Montgreleix15299 km N310.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 45 %
Villar-Loubière05403 km NE310.3No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 31 %
Razecueillé31107 km W293.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 54 % · winter 74 %
Aiti2B589 km E276.3No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 38 % · winter 14 %
Comus1118 km NW332.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 80 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Comus1118 km NW332.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 80 %
Razecueillé31107 km W293.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 54 % · winter 74 %
Tramezaïgues65146 km W3014.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 73 %
Montgreleix15299 km N310.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 45 %
Villar-Loubière05403 km NE310.3No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 31 %
Aiti2B589 km E276.3No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.summer 38 % · winter 14 %

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