Prades

Identity

Prades (INSEE 09232) is in Ariège (09), part of CC de la Haute Ariège. Population 54 (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/09232-prades

Vitality score

Vitality score 18.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 90 % of the 5,372 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.

Services

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

2 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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

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

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

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 43 (2012) → 54 (2023): 25.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 53 (1990) → 54 (2023): 1.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 168, of which 79.2 % second homes and 4.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Belcaire): 7.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Camurac): 3.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Belcaire): 7.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Ax-les-Thermes): 8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Belcaire): 7.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

An average of 11 days a year at or above 30 °C and 139 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ASCOU LAVAIL weather station, 6.8 km away at 1,090 m; the village itself is at 1,244 m. ^[11]

The village sits 154 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ASTON, 16.8 km away at 1,781 m, over 20 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 537 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 1,244 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 9.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ASCOU LAVAIL, 6.8 km away at 1,090 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09232/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09232/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09232/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09232/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 11028
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 11066
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 09032
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024