Saint-Amadou

Ariège · CC des Portes d'Ariège Pyrénées · INSEE 09254

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

Few services 33.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 86 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Amadou (INSEE 09254) is in Ariège (09), part of CC des Portes d'Ariège Pyrénées. Population 283 (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 33.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 86 % of the 17,659 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	1	10	9.97
Housing mix	0.77	5	3.85

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LE PAIN DE STEPHANIE). ^[3,4]

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

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE SAINT-AMADOU RUE DE L'ÉGLISE). ^[3]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LE PAIN DE STEPHANIE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAITRE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	SAINT AMADOU AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE SAINT-AMADOU RUE DE L'ÉGLISE	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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: 215 2023: 283 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 254 (2012) → 283 (2023): 11.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 189 (1990) → 283 (2023): 49.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 148, of which 11.5 % second homes and 7.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school GP — 2.0 km SFood shop — 6.0 km WPharmacy — 6.0 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 (Saint-Amadou): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (La Tour-du-Crieu): 6 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Les Pujols): 2 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (La Tour-du-Crieu): 6 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Amadou): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 19.1

Days at or below 0 °C 22.6

Muggy days a summer 9.8

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 19 days a year at or above 30 °C and 23 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ARVIGNA weather station, 5.9 km away at 370 m; the village itself is at 276 m. ^[11]

The village sits 94 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 10 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ARVIGNA, 5.9 km away at 370 m, over 15 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 94 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, 5.9 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 — 09254/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09254/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09254/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09254/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09254
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09312
INSEE BPE 2025 — 09238
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
Lesmont	10	627 km N	298	30.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 66 % · humidity 43 %
Coulanges	03	411 km NE	285	26.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 59 % · humidity 50 %
Alaigne	11	30 km E	327	31.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 91 % · humidity 79 %
Malviès	11	38 km E	361	32.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 86 % · humidity 64 %
Savoisy	21	555 km N	194	25.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 35 % · humidity 36 %
Voulaines-les-Templiers	21	575 km NE	270	17.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 35 % · humidity 36 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Alaigne	11	30 km E	327	31.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 91 % · humidity 79 %
Malviès	11	38 km E	361	32.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 86 % · humidity 64 %
Coulanges	03	411 km NE	285	26.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 59 % · humidity 50 %
Savoisy	21	555 km N	194	25.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 35 % · humidity 36 %
Voulaines-les-Templiers	21	575 km NE	270	17.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 35 % · humidity 36 %
Lesmont	10	627 km N	298	30.4	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · 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 Saint-Amadou'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
Riupeyrous	64	161 km W	240	24.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Cenne-Monestiés	11	40 km NE	413	34.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Fours	33	296 km NW	260	18.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Carlipa	11	39 km NE	332	33.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Cabanac	65	122 km W	304	32.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Tourtrol	09	7.7 km SE	238	20.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %

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