Le Puch

Ariège · CC de la Haute Ariège · INSEE 09237

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

No daily shops 7.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 36 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Puch (INSEE 09237) is in Ariège (09), part of CC de la Haute Ariège. Population 27 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 7.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 36 % of the 1,678 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	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.67	10	6.74
Housing mix	0	5	0

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

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 [3,4]
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 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)	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: 37 peak 2012: 41 2023: 27 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 41 (2012) → 27 (2023): -34.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 23 (1990) → 27 (2023): 17.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 67, of which 68.7 % second homes and 3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 2.0 km SPrimary school — 2.1 km SGP — 2.1 km SBakery — 11.6 km SPharmacy — 13.4 km NW 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 (Formiguères): 11.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Quérigut): 2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Quérigut): 2.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Espezel): 13.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Quérigut): 2.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 6.8

Days at or below 0 °C 86

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 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 86 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CARCANIERES weather station, 3.1 km away at 1,360 m; the village itself is at 1,177 m. ^[11]

The village sits 183 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]

An average of 945 mm of rain a year, spread over 115 days — about 8.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CARCANIERES, 3.1 km away at 1,360 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 — 09237/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09237/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09237/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09237/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66082
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09239
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11130
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
Mérial	11	13 km NW	28	6.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 97 % · winter 84 %
Oreilla	66	22 km SE	28	6.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 100 %
Appy	09	31 km W	28	11.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 54 %
Brette	26	331 km NE	29	6.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 66 %
Pradelle	26	332 km NE	26	4.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 44 % · winter 89 %
Benque-Dessous-et-Dessus	31	127 km W	30	4.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 73 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Mérial	11	13 km NW	28	6.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 97 % · winter 84 %
Oreilla	66	22 km SE	28	6.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 100 %
Appy	09	31 km W	28	11.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 92 % · winter 54 %
Benque-Dessous-et-Dessus	31	127 km W	30	4.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 73 %
Brette	26	331 km NE	29	6.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 62 % · winter 66 %
Pradelle	26	332 km NE	26	4.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 44 % · winter 89 %

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