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Pradettes

Ariège · CC du Pays de Mirepoix · INSEE 09233

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 11/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 54 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Pradettes (INSEE 09233) is in Ariège (09), part of CC du Pays de Mirepoix. Population 43 (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/09233-pradettes

Vitality score

Vitality score 11/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 54 % of the 3,790 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.52105.24
Housing mix0.8254.09

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), 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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 11 peak 2017: 50 2023: 43 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 41 (2012) → 43 (2023): 4.9 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 42 (1990) → 43 (2023): 2.4 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 22, of which 9.1 % second homes and 0 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 1.7 km SW (Sautel)Primary school — 4.3 km N (Dun)Bakery — 4.4 km SE (Laroque-d'Olmes)GP — 4.4 km SE (Laroque-d'Olmes)Pharmacy — 4.5 km SE (Laroque-d'Olmes)
Food shop — 1.7 km SWPrimary school — 4.3 km NBakery — 4.4 km SEGP — 4.4 km SEPharmacy — 4.5 km SE 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 (Laroque-d'Olmes): 4.4 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Sautel): 1.7 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Laroque-d'Olmes): 4.4 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Laroque-d'Olmes): 4.5 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Dun): 4.3 km to the north (straight line). [10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 36 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the LES CASCADES weather station, 6.5 km away at 530 m; the village itself is at 506 m. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at LERAN, 8.1 km away at 391 m, over 23 summers. [11]

That station sits 115 m below 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 1,100 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 8.7 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at LES CASCADES, 6.5 km away at 530 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 — 09233/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09233/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09233/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09233/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 09157
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 09281
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 09107
  11. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Paroy-sur-Saulx52669 km N439.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 51 % · humidity 93 %
Massiges51725 km N436No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 66 % · humidity 86 %
Blanquefort32112 km NW4210.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 28 % · winter 81 % · humidity 57 %
Houéville88674 km NE4314.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 69 % · humidity 79 %
Imécourt08750 km N426.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 82 %
Remennecourt55689 km N435.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Blanquefort32112 km NW4210.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 28 % · winter 81 % · humidity 57 %
Paroy-sur-Saulx52669 km N439.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 51 % · humidity 93 %
Houéville88674 km NE4314.4No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 69 % · humidity 79 %
Remennecourt55689 km N435.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Massiges51725 km N436No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 66 % · humidity 86 %
Imécourt08750 km N426.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 82 %

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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 Pradettes'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Remennecourt55689 km N435.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Horville-en-Ornois55674 km NE458.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Georges16354 km N446.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Tréban81130 km N5911No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Chaumont18435 km N4511.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Montauriol81128 km N558.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %