Castelnau-Durban

Ariège · CC Couserans-Pyrénées · INSEE 09082

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

Few services 37.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 81 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Castelnau-Durban (INSEE 09082) is in Ariège (09), part of CC Couserans-Pyrénées. Population 458 (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 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 37.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 81 % of the 17,923 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	0.48	20	9.5
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.55	10	5.48
Housing mix	0.5	5	2.51

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 1 of 1

Culture 1 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) (UN PAIN C'EST TOUT.). ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (FIDDELAERS GODELIEVE · LA P'TITE BOUTIK · CHEZ VICTOR). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (CASTELNAU DURBAN AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE CASTELNAU DURBAN ECOLE). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	UN PAIN C'EST TOUT.	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	3	FIDDELAERS GODELIEVE · LA P'TITE BOUTIK · CHEZ VICTOR	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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	1	CASTELNAU DURBAN AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE CASTELNAU DURBAN ECOLE	INSEE BPE 1 [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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

A market is recorded here, but no source gives the day. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 550 2023: 458 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 438 (2012) → 458 (2023): 4.6 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 437 (1990) → 458 (2023): 4.8 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 354, of which 24.9 % second homes and 5.1 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 4.5 km NEPharmacy — 7.6 km EGP — 7.9 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 (Castelnau-Durban): 0.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Allières): 4.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

GP (La Bastide-de-Sérou): 7.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Pharmacy (La Bastide-de-Sérou): 7.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Castelnau-Durban): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 25.8

Days at or below 0 °C 85

Muggy days a summer 5.9

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 26 days a year at or above 30 °C and 85 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the LA BASTIDE DE S weather station, 4.9 km away at 420 m; the village itself is at 406 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at COS, 18.7 km away at 519 m, over 21 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 113 m above 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 1,090 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 8.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at LA BASTIDE DE S, 4.9 km away at 420 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 — 09082/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2026-08— https://data.datatourisme.fr/13/e5e27b06-c7ad-397d-bd5c-955cecad930f— “Marché de Castelnau-Durban”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09082/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09082/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09082/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09082
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09007
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09042
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
Gy-en-Sologne	41	483 km N	475	35.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 66 % · humidity 64 %
Thannenkirch	68	743 km NE	451	38.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 70 % · humidity 64 %
Prémian	34	134 km NE	479	41.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Thoiry	73	471 km NE	456	39.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 74 % · humidity 57 %
Lizant	86	353 km N	393	34.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 34 % · humidity 71 %
Azillanet	34	119 km E	357	39.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 15 % · winter 14 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Azillanet	34	119 km E	357	39.6	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 15 % · winter 14 % · humidity 86 %
Prémian	34	134 km NE	479	41.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Lizant	86	353 km N	393	34.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 34 % · humidity 71 %
Thoiry	73	471 km NE	456	39.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 74 % · humidity 57 %
Gy-en-Sologne	41	483 km N	475	35.2	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 66 % · humidity 64 %
Thannenkirch	68	743 km NE	451	38.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 70 % · 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 Castelnau-Durban'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
Vailly-sur-Sauldre	18	506 km N	649	48.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
La Bastide-de-Sérou	09	7.5 km E	965	71.3	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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