Boutenac

Aude · CC Région Lézignanaise, Corbières et Minervois · INSEE 11048

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

Few services 36.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 65 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Boutenac (INSEE 11048) is in Aude (11), part of CC Région Lézignanaise, Corbières et Minervois. Population 747 (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 36.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 65 % of the 16,065 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.94	10	9.39
Housing mix	0.67	5	3.36

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 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 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (QUEMENEUR CLAUDIE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE DE BOUTENAC). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (COLOR COIFFURE · CYRIELLE · JEN COIFFURE A DOMICILE). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), 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)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	QUEMENEUR CLAUDIE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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]
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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE DE BOUTENAC	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	3	COLOR COIFFURE · CYRIELLE · JEN COIFFURE A DOMICILE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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: 622 2023: 747 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 704 (2012) → 747 (2023): 6.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 519 (1990) → 747 (2023): 43.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 469, of which 16.4 % second homes and 11.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 2.8 km NPharmacy — 3.1 km NBakery — 5.1 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 (Lézignan-Corbières): 5.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Boutenac): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Luc-sur-Orbieu): 2.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Luc-sur-Orbieu): 3.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Boutenac): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 43.9

Days at or below 0 °C 15.8▸

Muggy days a summer 11.8▸

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 16 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LEZIGNAN-CORBIERES weather station, 5.7 km away at 60 m; the village itself is at 73 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 12 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at LEZIGNAN-CORBIERES, 5.7 km away at 60 m, over 29 summers. ^[11]

An average of 632 mm of rain a year, spread over 67 days — about 9.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at FERRALS-LES-CORBIERES, 4.8 km away at 65 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 — 11048/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11048/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11048/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11048/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11203
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11048
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11210
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-Simon-de-Bordes	17	359 km NW	762	30.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 82 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Étienne-de-Gourgas	34	84 km NE	517	37	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 50 %
Guilligomarc'h	29	719 km NW	803	31.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 3 % · winter 86 % · humidity 29 %
Montailleur	73	390 km NE	671	31	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 38 % · winter 46 %
Sainte-Sabine-sur-Longève	72	593 km N	743	30.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 13 % · winter 57 %
Assé-le-Boisne	72	615 km N	881	28.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 18 % · winter 61 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Étienne-de-Gourgas	34	84 km NE	517	37	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Simon-de-Bordes	17	359 km NW	762	30.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 82 % · humidity 57 %
Montailleur	73	390 km NE	671	31	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 38 % · winter 46 %
Sainte-Sabine-sur-Longève	72	593 km N	743	30.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 13 % · winter 57 %
Assé-le-Boisne	72	615 km N	881	28.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 18 % · winter 61 %
Guilligomarc'h	29	719 km NW	803	31.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 3 % · winter 86 % · 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 Boutenac'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
Montséret	11	5.5 km S	616	43.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Trausse	11	26 km NW	614	39.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Thézan-des-Corbières	11	5.4 km S	573	35.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Rustiques	11	27 km W	538	33.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Bajamont	47	209 km NW	1,034	22.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Calamane	46	190 km NW	471	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %

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