Bézac

Ariège · CC des Portes d'Ariège Pyrénées · INSEE 09056

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

Few services 32.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 67 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bézac (INSEE 09056) is in Ariège (09), part of CC des Portes d'Ariège Pyrénées. Population 485 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2023-01-01 from 1 former commune: Saint-Amans (09255). ^[3]

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 32.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 67 % of the 17,863 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	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.62

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 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”.

A school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[4,5]

1 × Restaurant (LES DELICES TOEKOER). ^[4,5]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (MAIRIE). ^[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, Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Restaurant	1	LES DELICES TOEKOER	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,5]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	MAIRIE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [5]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 195 2023: 485 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 353 (2012) → 485 (2023): 37.4 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 252 (1990) → 485 (2023): 92.5 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 213, of which 3.8 % second homes and 4.7 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 2.1 km EBakery — 3.0 km SEPharmacy — 3.0 km SEGP — 4.7 km SE 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 (Pamiers): 3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Pamiers): 2.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Pamiers): 4.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Pamiers): 3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Bézac): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

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

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. ^[11]

Measured at the PAMIERS VILLE weather station, 4.1 km away at 283 m; the village itself is at 279 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at MONTAUT, 7.4 km away at 295 m, over 23 summers. ^[11]

An average of 823 mm of rain a year, spread over 112 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at PAMIERS VILLE, 4.1 km away at 283 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 — 09056/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09056/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09056/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09056/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09225
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09056
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
Maine-de-Boixe	16	321 km N	473	33.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 73 % · humidity 79 %
Cléry-en-Vexin	95	665 km N	476	30.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 3 % · winter 74 % · humidity 57 %
Tizac-de-Lapouyade	33	262 km NW	477	28.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 97 % · humidity 43 %
Pisieu	38	373 km NE	524	31.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 42 % · humidity 50 %
Ruvigny	10	605 km N	501	35.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 51 % · humidity 71 %
Ficheux	62	792 km N	496	24.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 85 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Tizac-de-Lapouyade	33	262 km NW	477	28.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 97 % · humidity 43 %
Maine-de-Boixe	16	321 km N	473	33.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 73 % · humidity 79 %
Pisieu	38	373 km NE	524	31.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 42 % · humidity 50 %
Ruvigny	10	605 km N	501	35.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 51 % · humidity 71 %
Cléry-en-Vexin	95	665 km N	476	30.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 3 % · winter 74 % · humidity 57 %
Ficheux	62	792 km N	496	24.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 85 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Bézac'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
Puéchabon	34	177 km E	509	35.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Aumelas	34	171 km E	624	26.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Sixte	47	126 km NW	363	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Moustier	47	195 km NW	324	26.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Monteils	30	234 km NE	692	37.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Roumagne	47	191 km NW	539	31.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

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