Axat

Aude · CC Pyrénées audoises · INSEE 11021

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

Partly served 52.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 95 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Axat (INSEE 11021) is in Aude (11), part of CC Pyrénées audoises. Population 479 (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/11021-axat

Vitality score

Vitality score 52.1/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 95 % of the 17,879 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	0.63	25	15.8
Social	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.48	10	4.75
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.02	10	0.21
Housing mix	0.28	5	1.39

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 2 of 3

Lodging 2 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]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (EURL BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE PEREZ). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (MAISON RIGONI DAMIEN). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (L'EPICERIE D'AXAT). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (IL SOGNO). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (CAFE LE CENTRAL). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE J-JAURES). ^[3]

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CATHERINE HARRISON, MÉDECIN · MARIE JULIE TROMME, MÉDECIN · MARC RIHA, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (AXAT LPAC AP). ^[3]

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

1 × Hairdresser (CREATION COIFFURE LS). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (HOTEL AXAT). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING LA CREMADE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie), 1 × Restaurant, 1 × Pharmacy.

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	EURL BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE PEREZ	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	MAISON RIGONI DAMIEN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	L'EPICERIE D'AXAT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	IL SOGNO	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	CAFE LE CENTRAL	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE J-JAURES	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	CATHERINE HARRISON, MÉDECIN · MARIE JULIE TROMME, MÉDECIN · MARC RIHA, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	AXAT LPAC AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE D'AXAT	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	1	CREATION COIFFURE LS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Hotel	1	HOTEL AXAT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Campsite	1	CAMPING LA CREMADE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 997 peak 1982: 1,021 2023: 479 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 623 (2012) → 479 (2023): -23.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 919 (1990) → 479 (2023): -47.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 490, of which 36.1 % second homes and 14.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 8.9 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 (Axat): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Axat): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Axat): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Quillan): 8.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Axat): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 24.5

Days at or below 0 °C 26

Muggy days a summer 4

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 25 days a year at or above 30 °C and 26 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ST LOUIS-ET-PARAHOU weather station, 10 km away at 684 m; the village itself is at 403 m. ^[10]

The village sits 281 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at GRANES, 11.7 km away at 420 m, over 25 summers. ^[10]

An average of 850 mm of rain a year, spread over 104 days — about 8.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at AXAT-GARE, 0.4 km away at 415 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11021/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11021/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11021/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11021/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11021
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11304
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
Saint-Pierreville	07	288 km NE	510	56.7	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 54 % · humidity 71 %
Revest-du-Bion	04	303 km NE	480	54.4	Partly served	no figures
Burzet	07	269 km NE	536	58	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
La Pesse	39	481 km NE	334	64.3	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
Nasbinals	48	217 km N	571	74	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
Beaufort-sur-Gervanne	26	320 km NE	494	56.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 68 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Nasbinals	48	217 km N	571	74	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
Burzet	07	269 km NE	536	58	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Pierreville	07	288 km NE	510	56.7	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 54 % · humidity 71 %
Revest-du-Bion	04	303 km NE	480	54.4	Partly served	no figures
Beaufort-sur-Gervanne	26	320 km NE	494	56.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 68 % · humidity 86 %
La Pesse	39	481 km NE	334	64.3	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Axat'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
Villefranche-du-Périgord	24	223 km NW	674	63.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Montsoreau	49	519 km N	408	54.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Montagrier	24	308 km NW	511	48.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Pietralba	2B	569 km E	507	55.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Chamassy	24	253 km NW	512	41.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Vabre	81	100 km N	726	54.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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