Montaut

Ariège · CC des Portes d'Ariège Pyrénées · INSEE 09199

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

Few services 34/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 59 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Montaut (INSEE 09199) is in Ariège (09), part of CC des Portes d'Ariège Pyrénées. Population 707 (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/09199-montaut

Vitality score

Vitality score 34/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 59 % of the 16,367 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	0.29	25	7.21
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.78	10	7.76
Housing mix	0.89	5	4.47

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 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 1 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AU COIN DU FEU · EVASIONS SUCREES BY SANDRINE). ^[3,4]

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

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

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

1 × Campsite (LE DOMAINE DE MONTAUT). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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)	2	AU COIN DU FEU · EVASIONS SUCREES BY SANDRINE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	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)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE MONTAUT	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	MONTAUT AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE DE MONTAUT	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 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	1	LE DOMAINE DE MONTAUT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 646 peak 2017: 715 2023: 707 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 691 (2012) → 707 (2023): 2.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 554 (1990) → 707 (2023): 27.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 393, of which 5.3 % second homes and 16.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 1.1 km EFood shop — 3.5 km WPharmacy — 6.8 km SWGP — 7.4 km N 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 (Montaut): 1.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Le Vernet): 3.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Mazères): 7.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Pamiers): 6.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Montaut): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 28.1

Days at or below 0 °C 23.6

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 28 days a year at or above 30 °C and 24 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the MONTAUT weather station, 0.5 km away at 295 m; the village itself is at 297 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at MONTAUT, 0.5 km away at 295 m, over 23 summers. ^[12]

An average of 665 mm of rain a year, spread over 99 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at MONTAUT, 0.5 km away at 295 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 — 09199/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09199/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09199/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09199/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09199
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09331
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09185
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09225
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
Boudou	82	113 km NW	757	33.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 65 % · humidity 86 %
Malrevers	43	282 km NE	763	31.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 30 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Lubin-en-Vergonnois	41	493 km N	774	28	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 73 % · humidity 57 %
Budelière	23	344 km N	718	27.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 1 %
Le Loroux	35	616 km N	621	30.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 85 % · humidity 57 %
Metz-en-Couture	62	773 km N	620	29	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 72 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Boudou	82	113 km NW	757	33.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 65 % · humidity 86 %
Malrevers	43	282 km NE	763	31.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 30 % · humidity 50 %
Budelière	23	344 km N	718	27.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 1 %
Saint-Lubin-en-Vergonnois	41	493 km N	774	28	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 73 % · humidity 57 %
Le Loroux	35	616 km N	621	30.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 85 % · humidity 57 %
Metz-en-Couture	62	773 km N	620	29	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 72 % · 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 Montaut'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
Saint-Ciers-de-Canesse	33	277 km NW	746	22.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Montbrun-Lauragais	31	32 km N	730	33	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Césaire	17	333 km NW	888	36.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Chantérac	24	241 km NW	652	30.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Labécède-Lauragais	11	37 km NE	420	31.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-Gonaguet	24	242 km N	1,049	35.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %

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