Bénac

Ariège · CA L'Agglo Foix-Varilhes · INSEE 09049

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 12.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 31 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bénac (INSEE 09049) is in Ariège (09), part of CA L'Agglo Foix-Varilhes. Population 173 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 12.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 31 % of the 15,096 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	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.88	10	8.84
Housing mix	0.43	5	2.16

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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

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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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 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: 107 peak 2007: 187 2023: 173 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 169 (2012) → 173 (2023): 2.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 125 (1990) → 173 (2023): 38.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 134, of which 28.4 % second homes and 9.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 1.1 km SBakery — 1.6 km NFood shop — 2.5 km EGP — 5.4 km EPharmacy — 5.4 km E 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 (Serres-sur-Arget): 1.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Pierre-de-Rivière): 2.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Foix): 5.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Foix): 5.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Brassac): 1.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 20

Days at or below 0 °C 40

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 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the COS weather station, 3.2 km away at 519 m; the village itself is at 550 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at COS, 3.2 km away at 519 m, over 21 summers. ^[12]

An average of 997 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 8.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at COS, 3.2 km away at 519 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09049/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09049/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09049/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09049/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09293
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09273
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09122
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09066
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
Taizé	71	467 km NE	174	14	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 73 % · humidity 79 %
Furmeyer	05	389 km NE	169	10.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 0 % · humidity 64 %
Chaudon-Norante	04	402 km E	175	14.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 89 % · humidity 64 %
Savigny-sur-Grosne	71	473 km NE	170	8.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 78 % · humidity 86 %
Brandeville	55	772 km N	165	11	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 62 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Germain-en-Brionnais	71	435 km NE	172	9.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 77 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Furmeyer	05	389 km NE	169	10.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 0 % · humidity 64 %
Chaudon-Norante	04	402 km E	175	14.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 89 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Germain-en-Brionnais	71	435 km NE	172	9.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 77 % · humidity 71 %
Taizé	71	467 km NE	174	14	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 73 % · humidity 79 %
Savigny-sur-Grosne	71	473 km NE	170	8.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 78 % · humidity 86 %
Brandeville	55	772 km N	165	11	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 62 % · 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 Bénac'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
Villiers-le-Roux	16	362 km N	171	13.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Lozay	17	381 km NW	165	8.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Preyssac-d'Excideuil	24	267 km N	152	8.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Oradour	16	351 km N	163	6.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Martin-de-Juillers	17	365 km NW	151	8.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Lusseray	79	380 km N	172	9.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

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