Barbaira

Aude · CA Carcassonne Agglo · INSEE 11027

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

Partly served 41.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 75 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Barbaira (INSEE 11027) is in Aude (11), part of CA Carcassonne Agglo. Population 805 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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 41.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 75 % of the 15,626 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	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.89	5	4.45

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 0 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 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (SAS RELAIS DU BARRY). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (TELLE MERE, TEL FILS...). ^[3,4]

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

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

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

1 × Hairdresser (ACTIV'COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, 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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	SAS RELAIS DU BARRY	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	TELLE MERE, TEL FILS...	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)	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	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE BARBAIRA	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	ACTIV'COIFFURE	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: 512 2023: 805 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 745 (2012) → 805 (2023): 8.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 474 (1990) → 805 (2023): 69.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 438, of which 5.5 % second homes and 13.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 3.3 km NEBakery — 3.7 km NPharmacy — 4.0 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 (Badens): 3.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Barbaira): 0 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Marseillette): 3.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Capendu): 4 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Barbaira): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

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 12.1▸

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. ^[12]

Measured at the LAURE-MINERVOIS weather station, 9.3 km away at 80 m; the village itself is at 76 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at ARQUETTES-EN-VAL, 9.4 km away at 240 m, over 18 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 164 m above 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 700 mm of rain a year, spread over 80 days — about 8.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at CAPENDU, 3.2 km away at 79 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11027/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11027/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11027/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11027/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11027
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11220
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11068
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
Cruscades	11	25 km E	936	41.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
La Rivière-Drugeon	25	502 km NE	933	41.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 0 % · humidity 14 %
Étuz	70	535 km NE	713	42.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 38 % · humidity 29 %
Caux-et-Sauzens	11	21 km W	1,025	34.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Hostun	26	298 km NE	1,037	38.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 77 % · humidity 36 %
Bélarga	34	89 km NE	664	44	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 88 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Caux-et-Sauzens	11	21 km W	1,025	34.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Cruscades	11	25 km E	936	41.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Bélarga	34	89 km NE	664	44	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 88 % · humidity 71 %
Hostun	26	298 km NE	1,037	38.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 77 % · humidity 36 %
La Rivière-Drugeon	25	502 km NE	933	41.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 0 % · humidity 14 %
Étuz	70	535 km NE	713	42.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 38 % · 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 Barbaira'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
Cruscades	11	25 km E	936	41.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Pomas	11	20 km SW	1,017	37.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Valros	34	74 km E	1,685	36.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Espère	46	173 km NW	963	39.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Marseillette	11	3.2 km NE	697	47.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Tourouzelle	11	19 km NE	494	30	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %

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