Ajac

Aude · CC du Limouxin · INSEE 11003

A school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink.

No daily shops 18.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 56 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ajac (INSEE 11003) is in Aude (11), part of CC du Limouxin. Population 196 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/11003-ajac

Vitality score

Vitality score 18.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 56 % of the 15,841 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.44	10	4.38
Housing mix	0.7	5	3.52

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE D'AJAC). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE D'AJAC	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 [3,4]
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: 219 peak 2007: 244 2023: 196 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 196 (2012) → 196 (2023): 0 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 209 (1990) → 196 (2023): -6.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 149, of which 14.8 % second homes and 12.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 3.7 km WBakery — 6.1 km EGP — 6.2 km EPharmacy — 6.2 km E 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 (Limoux): 6.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Villelongue-d'Aude): 3.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Limoux): 6.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Limoux): 6.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Ajac): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 43.7

Days at or below 0 °C 38.2

Muggy days a summer 12.8▸

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 44 days a year at or above 30 °C and 38 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LIMOUX weather station, 5.1 km away at 230 m; the village itself is at 279 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 13 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ALAIGNE, 7.9 km away at 293 m, over 24 summers. ^[11]

An average of 781 mm of rain a year, spread over 109 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at VILLELONGUE-D'AUDE, 3.7 km away at 320 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 — 11003/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11003/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11003/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11003/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11206
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11427
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11003
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
Graffigny-Chemin	52	631 km NE	194	15.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 15 % · winter 42 %
Neuville-sur-Authou	27	695 km N	191	25.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 13 % · winter 80 % · humidity 14 %
Chay	25	531 km NE	194	25.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 47 % · humidity 21 %
Maxey-sur-Meuse	88	661 km NE	213	18.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 76 % · humidity 14 %
Drom	01	435 km NE	215	24.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 59 % · humidity 21 %
Javaugues	43	271 km NE	174	21.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 58 % · humidity 7 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Javaugues	43	271 km NE	174	21.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 58 % · humidity 7 %
Drom	01	435 km NE	215	24.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 59 % · humidity 21 %
Chay	25	531 km NE	194	25.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 47 % · humidity 21 %
Graffigny-Chemin	52	631 km NE	194	15.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 15 % · winter 42 %
Maxey-sur-Meuse	88	661 km NE	213	18.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 76 % · humidity 14 %
Neuville-sur-Authou	27	695 km N	191	25.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 13 % · winter 80 % · humidity 14 %

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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 Ajac'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
Castelreng	11	2.1 km S	207	20.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
La Digne-d'Amont	11	1.9 km SE	286	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Banos	40	236 km W	271	23.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Pauligne	11	3.2 km NE	357	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Pescadoires	46	180 km NW	184	15.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Maignaut-Tauzia	32	168 km NW	220	11.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %

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