Carcanières

Ariège · CC de la Haute Ariège · INSEE 09078

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

No daily shops 11.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 44 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Carcanières (INSEE 09078) is in Ariège (09), part of CC de la Haute Ariège. Population 70 (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 11.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 44 % of the 7,423 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	0.96	10	9.58
Housing mix	0	5	0

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: 60 peak 2012: 82 2023: 70 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 82 (2012) → 70 (2023): -14.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 48 (1990) → 70 (2023): 45.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 127, of which 72.4 % second homes and 0.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 1.9 km SWGP — 1.9 km SPrimary school — 2.0 km SWBakery — 11.2 km SPharmacy — 14.1 km NW 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): 11.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Quérigut): 1.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Quérigut): 1.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Espezel): 14.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Quérigut): 2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 6.8

Days at or below 0 °C 84.6

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 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, 2.4 km away at 1,360 m; the village itself is at 1,168 m. ^[11]

The village sits 192 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, 2.4 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

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09078/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09078/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09078/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09078/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66082
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09239
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11130
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
Nahuja	66	34 km S	74	11.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 92 %
Vielle-Louron	65	140 km W	80	11.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 42 %
Cazenave-Serres-et-Allens	09	38 km W	66	11.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 50 %
Aunat	11	8.7 km N	61	7.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 85 %
Gouaux	65	144 km W	54	4.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 51 %
Soleilhas	04	389 km E	95	6.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 0 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Aunat	11	8.7 km N	61	7.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 85 %
Nahuja	66	34 km S	74	11.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 92 %
Cazenave-Serres-et-Allens	09	38 km W	66	11.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 50 %
Vielle-Louron	65	140 km W	80	11.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 42 %
Gouaux	65	144 km W	54	4.4	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 51 %
Soleilhas	04	389 km E	95	6.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 0 %

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