Ventenac

Identity

Ventenac (INSEE 09327) is in Ariège (09), part of CA L'Agglo Foix-Varilhes. Population 234 (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/09327-ventenac

Vitality score

Vitality score 27.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 78 % of the 16,894 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

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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

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

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 224 (2012) → 234 (2023): 4.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 182 (1990) → 234 (2023): 28.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 140, of which 13.6 % second homes and 6.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Ventenac): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sautel): 7.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Varilhes): 9.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Varilhes): 9.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Carla-de-Roquefort): 4.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

An average of 20 days a year at or above 30 °C and 29 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the LES CASCADES weather station, 4.9 km away at 530 m; the village itself is at 447 m. ^[12]

The village sits 83 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at ARVIGNA, 5.7 km away at 370 m, over 15 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 77 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 1,100 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 8.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at LES CASCADES, 4.9 km away at 530 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09327/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09327/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09327/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 09327/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 09327
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 09281
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 09324
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 09080
12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024