Lescure

Ariège · CC Couserans-Pyrénées · INSEE 09164

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

Partly served 41.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 85 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lescure (INSEE 09164) is in Ariège (09), part of CC Couserans-Pyrénées. Population 479 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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/09164-lescure

Vitality score

Vitality score 41.1/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 85 % of the 17,879 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	0.79	20	15.82
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.73	10	7.35
Housing mix	0.77	5	3.86

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (CROQ' EN BOUCHE · BUTTERFLY). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE DE LESCURE). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 1 × Restaurant, 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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]
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	CROQ' EN BOUCHE · BUTTERFLY	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	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	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE DE LESCURE	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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 451 peak 2012: 501 2023: 479 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 501 (2012) → 479 (2023): -4.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 388 (1990) → 479 (2023): 23.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 299, of which 11.4 % second homes and 15.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 0.5 km SEBakery — 3.8 km EFood shop — 4.1 km EGP — 7.1 km WPharmacy — 7.4 km W 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 (Rimont): 3.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Rimont): 4.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Girons): 7.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Girons): 7.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Lescure): 0.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 32.2

Days at or below 0 °C 50.2

Muggy days a summer 4.7

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 32 days a year at or above 30 °C and 50 days at or below 0 °C, over 23 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the SOULAN weather station, 9.6 km away at 638 m; the village itself is at 445 m. ^[11]

The village sits 193 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]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ST GIRONS, 10.4 km away at 414 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 1,279 mm of rain a year, spread over 133 days — about 9.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at SOULAN, 9.6 km away at 638 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 — 09164/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09164/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09164/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09164/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09246
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09261
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09164
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
Anglards-de-Saint-Flour	15	269 km NE	412	43.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 36 % · humidity 64 %
Périgny	03	405 km NE	484	37.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 65 % · humidity 71 %
Castanet	12	166 km NE	533	32.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 82 %
La Couyère	35	584 km N	448	38.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 82 % · humidity 79 %
Lesgor	40	197 km NW	427	41.5	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %
Quantilly	18	479 km N	490	36.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Castanet	12	166 km NE	533	32.9	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 67 % · winter 82 %
Lesgor	40	197 km NW	427	41.5	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %
Anglards-de-Saint-Flour	15	269 km NE	412	43.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 36 % · humidity 64 %
Périgny	03	405 km NE	484	37.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 65 % · humidity 71 %
Quantilly	18	479 km N	490	36.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
La Couyère	35	584 km N	448	38.4	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 82 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Lescure'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
Calignac	47	142 km NW	495	42.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Gensac-sur-Garonne	31	26 km N	451	31.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Peyrole	81	104 km NE	545	31.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Sabonnères	31	54 km N	332	33.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Teyssode	81	92 km NE	382	29.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Biran	32	102 km NW	379	27.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

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