Les Pujols

Ariège · CC des Portes d'Ariège Pyrénées · INSEE 09238

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

Partly served 46.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 82 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Les Pujols (INSEE 09238) is in Ariège (09), part of CC des Portes d'Ariège Pyrénées. Population 873 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 46.3/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 82 % of the 15,146 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.78

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (SAS ROUSSEU GUILLAUME · L'ATELIER FERRIGNO). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (MAIRIE). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (GERARD MARGALEJO, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE LES PUJOLS). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	SAS ROUSSEU GUILLAUME · L'ATELIER FERRIGNO	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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	MAIRIE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	GERARD MARGALEJO, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE LES PUJOLS	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	2		INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 387 2023: 873 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 740 (2012) → 873 (2023): 18 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 470 (1990) → 873 (2023): 85.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 410, of which 2.2 % second homes and 5.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school GP — 0.6 km NFood shop — 5.7 km WPharmacy — 5.8 km W 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 (Les Pujols): 0.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Verniolle): 5.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Les Pujols): 0.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (La Tour-du-Crieu): 5.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Les Pujols): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 17.5

Days at or below 0 °C 24

Muggy days a summer 8.9

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 24 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ARVIGNA weather station, 3.4 km away at 370 m; the village itself is at 314 m. ^[11]

The village sits 56 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]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 9 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ARVIGNA, 3.4 km away at 370 m, over 15 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 56 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 829 mm of rain a year, spread over 109 days — about 7.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ARVIGNA, 3.4 km away at 370 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 — 09238/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09238/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09238/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09238/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09238
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09332
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09312
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
Colembert	62	852 km N	907	45.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 96 % · humidity 50 %
Bernoy-le-Château	02	705 km N	825	34.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 64 % · humidity 43 %
Souvigné	79	395 km N	863	35.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Georges-sur-Fontaine	76	719 km N	950	39.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 68 % · humidity 43 %
Bouquehault	62	861 km N	788	42.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 66 % · humidity 43 %
La Merlatière	85	473 km NW	1,009	31.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Souvigné	79	395 km N	863	35.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 57 %
La Merlatière	85	473 km NW	1,009	31.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 50 %
Bernoy-le-Château	02	705 km N	825	34.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 64 % · humidity 43 %
Saint-Georges-sur-Fontaine	76	719 km N	950	39.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 68 % · humidity 43 %
Colembert	62	852 km N	907	45.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 96 % · humidity 50 %
Bouquehault	62	861 km N	788	42.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 66 % · humidity 43 %

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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 Les Pujols'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
Beurlay	17	369 km NW	994	46.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Castin	64	167 km W	862	32.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Sévignacq	64	165 km W	805	58.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Césaire	17	345 km NW	888	36.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Champagne	17	370 km NW	651	37.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Beaugeay	17	377 km NW	794	39.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

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