Cailhau

Aude · CC du Limouxin · INSEE 11058

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

Few services 21.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 59 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Cailhau (INSEE 11058) is in Aude (11), part of CC du Limouxin. Population 247 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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/11058-cailhau

Vitality score

Vitality score 21.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 59 % of the 17,181 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.63	10	6.28
Housing mix	0.55	5	2.73

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), 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)	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	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	CAILHAU AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE CAILHAU	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: 282 2023: 247 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 263 (2012) → 247 (2023): -6.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 219 (1990) → 247 (2023): 12.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 176, of which 22.7 % second homes and 9.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.3 km SGP — 3.7 km SWBakery — 4.0 km SWPharmacy — 4.0 km SWFood shop — 5.9 km N 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 (Belvèze-du-Razès): 4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Montréal): 5.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Belvèze-du-Razès): 3.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Belvèze-du-Razès): 4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Cambieure): 2.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 27.7

Days at or below 0 °C 15.8▸

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 28 days a year at or above 30 °C and 16 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ALAIGNE weather station, 4.9 km away at 293 m; the village itself is at 251 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at ALAIGNE, 4.9 km away at 293 m, over 24 summers. ^[11]

An average of 659 mm of rain a year, spread over 95 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ALAIGNE, 4.9 km away at 293 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 — 11058/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11058/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11058/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11058/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11034
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11254
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11061
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
Latouille-Lentillac	46	190 km N	247	15.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 70 % · humidity 43 %
Champsanglard	23	348 km N	253	15.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 47 % · humidity 7 %
Saint-Maur	18	382 km N	253	17.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 42 % · humidity 50 %
Reterre	23	330 km N	258	15	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 28 % · humidity 14 %
Kerien	22	715 km NW	245	16.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 95 % · humidity 7 %
Leynhac	15	178 km N	297	15.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 12 % · humidity 14 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Leynhac	15	178 km N	297	15.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 12 % · humidity 14 %
Latouille-Lentillac	46	190 km N	247	15.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 70 % · humidity 43 %
Reterre	23	330 km N	258	15	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 28 % · humidity 14 %
Champsanglard	23	348 km N	253	15.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 47 % · humidity 7 %
Saint-Maur	18	382 km N	253	17.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 42 % · humidity 50 %
Kerien	22	715 km NW	245	16.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 95 % · humidity 7 %

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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 Cailhau'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
Escueillens-et-Saint-Just-de-Bélengard	11	10 km SW	160	14.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Mauléon-d'Armagnac	32	203 km NW	265	19.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Just-Ibarre	64	259 km W	197	22.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Bernède	32	199 km W	182	11.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Sorbets	32	185 km W	203	12.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Buanes	40	216 km W	236	14.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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