Benagues

Ariège · CC des Portes d'Ariège Pyrénées · INSEE 09050

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

Few services 35.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 74 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Benagues (INSEE 09050) is in Ariège (09), part of CC des Portes d'Ariège Pyrénées. Population 488 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[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/09050-benagues

Vitality score

Vitality score 35.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 74 % of the 17,802 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.86

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 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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

1 × Hairdresser (ELO COIFF). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × 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, 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	2		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE BENAGUES	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	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	1	ELO COIFF	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 143 peak 2017: 514 2023: 488 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 475 (2012) → 488 (2023): 2.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 285 (1990) → 488 (2023): 71.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 218, of which 1.4 % second homes and 7.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 1.7 km NEFood shop — 1.8 km EBakery — 1.9 km NEPharmacy — 2.1 km NE 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-Jean-du-Falga): 1.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Jean-du-Falga): 1.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Jean-du-Falga): 1.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Jean-du-Falga): 2.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Benagues): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 50.3▸

Days at or below 0 °C 30.1

Muggy days a summer 7.6

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 50 days a year at or above 30 °C and 30 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the PAMIERS VILLE weather station, 4.8 km away at 283 m; the village itself is at 325 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 8 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ARVIGNA, 9.9 km away at 370 m, over 15 summers. ^[10]

An average of 811 mm of rain a year, spread over 108 days — about 7.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at PAMIERS, 4.6 km away at 295 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09050/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09050/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09050/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09050/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09265
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09050
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-Jean-de-Beauregard	91	624 km N	471	32.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 80 % · humidity 50 %
Jussy	57	753 km NE	466	27.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 57 % · humidity 50 %
Armancourt	60	706 km N	548	30.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 91 % · humidity 50 %
Monthion	73	472 km NE	520	34.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 0 % · humidity 43 %
Brevilliers	70	644 km NE	626	27.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 18 % · winter 54 %
Vogelgrun	68	718 km NE	628	32.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 46 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Monthion	73	472 km NE	520	34.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 0 % · humidity 43 %
Saint-Jean-de-Beauregard	91	624 km N	471	32.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 80 % · humidity 50 %
Brevilliers	70	644 km NE	626	27.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 18 % · winter 54 %
Armancourt	60	706 km N	548	30.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 91 % · humidity 50 %
Vogelgrun	68	718 km NE	628	32.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 46 % · humidity 57 %
Jussy	57	753 km NE	466	27.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 57 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Benagues'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
Coulobres	34	141 km E	367	25.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Sixte	47	135 km NW	363	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Laurent-de-Carnols	30	267 km NE	553	26	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Roumagne	47	200 km NW	539	31.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Domazan	30	263 km E	960	37.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Lavergne	47	194 km NW	554	26.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

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