Brassac

Ariège · CA L'Agglo Foix-Varilhes · INSEE 09066

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Few services 31.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 55 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Brassac (INSEE 09066) is in Ariège (09), part of CA L'Agglo Foix-Varilhes. Population 633 (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/09066-brassac

Vitality score

Vitality score 31.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 55 % of the 16,798 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.64	10	6.41
Housing mix	0.47	5	2.34

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: 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)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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		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 ELEMENTAIRE	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	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: 408 peak 2012: 640 2023: 633 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 640 (2012) → 633 (2023): -1.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 555 (1990) → 633 (2023): 14.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 473, of which 26.6 % second homes and 8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.6 km NFood shop — 2.8 km NEGP — 5.3 km EPharmacy — 5.5 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 (Serres-sur-Arget): 2.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Pierre-de-Rivière): 2.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Foix): 5.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Foix): 5.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Brassac): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 17

Days at or below 0 °C 46.4

Muggy days a summer 3.1

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 17 days a year at or above 30 °C and 46 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the COS weather station, 3.7 km away at 519 m; the village itself is at 593 m. ^[12]

The village sits 74 m above 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at COS, 3.7 km away at 519 m, over 21 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 74 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[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, 3.7 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 — 09066/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09066/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09066/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09066/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
Verfeuil	30	271 km NE	591	32.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Beauvoir-en-Lyons	76	729 km N	663	36	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 78 %
Adainville	78	643 km N	673	21.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Langatte	57	771 km NE	627	36.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 61 % · humidity 86 %
Philippsbourg	57	817 km NE	613	38.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 32 %
Le Tilleul	76	756 km N	656	37.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Verfeuil	30	271 km NE	591	32.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Adainville	78	643 km N	673	21.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Beauvoir-en-Lyons	76	729 km N	663	36	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 78 %
Le Tilleul	76	756 km N	656	37.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Langatte	57	771 km NE	627	36.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 61 % · humidity 86 %
Philippsbourg	57	817 km NE	613	38.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 32 %

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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 Brassac'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
Adainville	78	643 km N	673	21.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Montacher-Villegardin	89	593 km N	719	35.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Tilly	78	660 km N	530	37.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Ceaulmont	36	399 km N	670	25.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
La Chapelle-sur-Aveyron	45	557 km N	623	43.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Vaudeurs	89	598 km N	469	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

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