Badens

Aude · CA Carcassonne Agglo · INSEE 11023

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

Partly served 43.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 80 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Badens (INSEE 11023) is in Aude (11), part of CA Carcassonne Agglo. Population 749 (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 43.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 80 % of the 16,052 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.81	10	8.14
Housing mix	0.9	5	4.49

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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 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]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (CHEZ STEPH). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (GIANLUCA & LILLY PIZZA CUCINA ITALIANA). ^[3,4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ALIN STANASEL, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE BADENS). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	CHEZ STEPH	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	1	GIANLUCA & LILLY PIZZA CUCINA ITALIANA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	ALIN STANASEL, 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	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE BADENS	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		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 662 peak 2017: 785 2023: 749 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 763 (2012) → 749 (2023): -1.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 570 (1990) → 749 (2023): 31.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 373, of which 5.1 % second homes and 10.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP Food shop — 3.7 km SPharmacy — 4.8 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 (Badens): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Barbaira): 3.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Badens): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Trèbes): 4.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Badens): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 45.3▸

Days at or below 0 °C 20.7

Muggy days a summer 10.7▸

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 45 days a year at or above 30 °C and 21 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LAURE-MINERVOIS weather station, 5.6 km away at 80 m; the village itself is at 79 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at CAUNES-MINERVOIS, 13 km away at 371 m, over 19 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 292 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 700 mm of rain a year, spread over 80 days — about 8.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CAPENDU, 4.9 km away at 79 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 — 11023/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11023/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11023/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11023/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11027
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11397
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
Lavoûte-sur-Loire	43	239 km NE	805	42.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 35 % · humidity 21 %
Bouniagues	24	233 km NW	578	45.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 53 % · humidity 43 %
Neuillé-le-Lierre	37	494 km N	753	41.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 70 % · humidity 29 %
Trébons	65	194 km W	760	38.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 80 % · humidity 50 %
La Ferrière-en-Parthenay	79	433 km NW	774	37.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 62 % · humidity 29 %
Les Maillys	21	489 km NE	803	37	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 45 % · humidity 36 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Trébons	65	194 km W	760	38.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 80 % · humidity 50 %
Bouniagues	24	233 km NW	578	45.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 53 % · humidity 43 %
Lavoûte-sur-Loire	43	239 km NE	805	42.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 35 % · humidity 21 %
La Ferrière-en-Parthenay	79	433 km NW	774	37.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 62 % · humidity 29 %
Les Maillys	21	489 km NE	803	37	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 45 % · humidity 36 %
Neuillé-le-Lierre	37	494 km N	753	41.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 70 % · humidity 29 %

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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 Badens'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
Douelle	46	167 km NW	830	53.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Antoine-de-Ficalba	47	190 km NW	721	36.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Conilhac-Corbières	11	17 km E	954	35.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Aigues-Vives	11	2.5 km NE	532	34.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Montséret	11	28 km SE	616	43.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Rustiques	11	2.8 km W	538	33.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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