Caux-et-Sauzens

Aude · CA Carcassonne Agglo · INSEE 11084

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

Few services 34.9/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 47 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Caux-et-Sauzens (INSEE 11084) is in Aude (11), part of CA Carcassonne Agglo. Population 1,025 (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 34.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 47 % of the 14,155 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.95	10	9.54
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.61

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) (L'EPI-CAUX). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LE PLATANE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (CAUX ET SAUZENS AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE CAUX-ET-SAUZENS). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (NAT COIFFURE ESTHETIQUE · LES CISEAUX D'EMILIE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 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	L'EPI-CAUX	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	2	LE PLATANE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [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	CAUX ET SAUZENS AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE CAUX-ET-SAUZENS	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	2	NAT COIFFURE ESTHETIQUE · LES CISEAUX D'EMILIE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 429 2023: 1,025 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 821 (2012) → 1,025 (2023): 24.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 705 (1990) → 1,025 (2023): 45.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 491, of which 3.9 % second homes and 8.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 3.1 km NPharmacy — 3.4 km NGP — 4.3 km SW 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 (Pezens): 3.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Caux-et-Sauzens): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Arzens): 4.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Pezens): 3.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Caux-et-Sauzens): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 37.6

Days at or below 0 °C 19.9

Muggy days a summer 9.7

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 38 days a year at or above 30 °C and 20 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CARCASSONNE weather station, 3.4 km away at 128 m; the village itself is at 153 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 10 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at CARCASSONNE, 3.4 km away at 128 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 637 mm of rain a year, spread over 88 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CARCASSONNE, 3.4 km away at 128 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11084/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11084/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11084/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11084/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11288
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11084
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11018
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
Hostun	26	310 km NE	1,037	38.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 76 % · humidity 50 %
La Rivière-Drugeon	25	511 km NE	933	41.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 0 % · humidity 29 %
Tercé	86	389 km N	1,135	29.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 58 % · humidity 43 %
Fleuré	86	387 km N	1,137	35.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 58 % · humidity 43 %
Cruscades	11	46 km E	936	41.7	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Salins	77	581 km N	1,165	35.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 73 % · humidity 43 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Cruscades	11	46 km E	936	41.7	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Hostun	26	310 km NE	1,037	38.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 76 % · humidity 50 %
Fleuré	86	387 km N	1,137	35.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 58 % · humidity 43 %
Tercé	86	389 km N	1,135	29.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 58 % · humidity 43 %
La Rivière-Drugeon	25	511 km NE	933	41.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 0 % · humidity 29 %
Salins	77	581 km N	1,165	35.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 73 % · humidity 43 %

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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 Caux-et-Sauzens'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
Cavanac	11	8.6 km SE	1,021	35.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Ventenac-Cabardès	11	5.2 km NE	962	34.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Mas-Saintes-Puelles	11	32 km W	923	46.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Corbère-les-Cabanes	66	72 km SE	1,213	39.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Villesèquelande	11	2.3 km NW	882	34.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Valros	34	93 km E	1,685	36.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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