Montseron

Ariège · CC Couserans-Pyrénées · INSEE 09212

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

Few services 21.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 87 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Montseron (INSEE 09212) is in Ariège (09), part of CC Couserans-Pyrénées. Population 100 (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/09212-montseron

Vitality score

Vitality score 21.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 87 % of the 10,643 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.91	10	9.08
Housing mix	0.47	5	2.35

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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”.

A food shop, but no school and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: 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	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	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 [3,4]
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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 105 2023: 100 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 79 (2012) → 100 (2023): 26.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 71 (1990) → 100 (2023): 40.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 83, of which 26.5 % second homes and 9.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 0.7 km SPrimary school — 2.3 km SEFood shop — 3.9 km NEGP — 7.4 km NEPharmacy — 8.7 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 (Montseron): 0.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Allières): 3.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Le Mas-d'Azil): 7.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (La Bastide-de-Sérou): 8.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Castelnau-Durban): 2.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[12]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 17.9

Days at or below 0 °C 85.2

Muggy days a summer 3.9

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 18 days a year at or above 30 °C and 85 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the LA BASTIDE DE S weather station, 5.3 km away at 420 m; the village itself is at 474 m. ^[13]

The village sits 54 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. ^[13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at ST GIRONS, 17.7 km away at 414 m, over 30 summers. ^[13]

That station sits 60 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[13]

An average of 1,090 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 8.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at LA BASTIDE DE S, 5.3 km away at 420 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09212/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09212/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09212/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09212/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09212
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09007
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09181
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09042
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09082
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
Azat-Châtenet	23	342 km N	108	12.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 77 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Hérent	63	308 km NE	111	14.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 71 %
Lupsault	16	343 km N	109	11.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 50 % · humidity 86 %
Signy-Montlibert	08	791 km N	93	13.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 88 %
Sarlabous	65	85 km W	79	14.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Varenne-l'Arconce	71	432 km NE	110	11.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 51 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sarlabous	65	85 km W	79	14.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Hérent	63	308 km NE	111	14.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 71 %
Azat-Châtenet	23	342 km N	108	12.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 77 % · humidity 86 %
Lupsault	16	343 km N	109	11.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 50 % · humidity 86 %
Varenne-l'Arconce	71	432 km NE	110	11.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 51 % · humidity 79 %
Signy-Montlibert	08	791 km N	93	13.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 88 %

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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 Montseron'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
Thou	18	501 km N	77	9.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Renaucourt	70	620 km NE	116	9.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Pont-du-Bois	70	665 km NE	115	6.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Diennes-Aubigny	58	469 km N	88	6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Beaumont-Sardolles	58	464 km N	114	9.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Montfalcon	38	395 km NE	127	12.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %

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