Cavanac

Aude · CA Carcassonne Agglo · INSEE 11085

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

Few services 35.9/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 50 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Cavanac (INSEE 11085) is in Aude (11), part of CA Carcassonne Agglo. Population 1,021 (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 35.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 50 % of the 14,187 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	0.39	20	7.77
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.91	5	4.54

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 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

3 × Restaurant (EURL MAMOU · SAVEURS ASIA). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (LES AMIS DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE CAVANAC). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (PERRETTE ET AURELIE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 1 × Hotel.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, 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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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	3	EURL MAMOU · SAVEURS ASIA	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 7 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	1	LES AMIS DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE CAVANAC	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	PERRETTE ET AURELIE	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]
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: 495 2023: 1,021 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 918 (2012) → 1,021 (2023): 11.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 676 (1990) → 1,021 (2023): 51 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 502, of which 4.6 % second homes and 7.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 0.6 km EFood shop — 2.1 km NWBakery — 2.3 km SGP — 2.7 km SPharmacy — 3.2 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 (Leuc): 2.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Carcassonne): 2.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Leuc): 2.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Carcassonne): 3.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Cavanac): 0.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

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, 5.8 km away at 128 m; the village itself is at 145 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at CARCASSONNE, 5.8 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, 5.8 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 — 11085/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11085/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11085/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11085/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11201
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11069
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11085
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
Montjean	53	596 km NW	1,020	30.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 72 % · humidity 43 %
Marpiré	35	622 km NW	1,023	31.8	Few services	no figures
Serres-Morlaàs	64	210 km W	870	40.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %
Ardillières	17	410 km NW	890	42.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %
Péroy-les-Gombries	60	668 km N	1,224	34	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 61 % · humidity 36 %
Caux-et-Sauzens	11	8.6 km NW	1,025	34.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Caux-et-Sauzens	11	8.6 km NW	1,025	34.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Serres-Morlaàs	64	210 km W	870	40.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %
Ardillières	17	410 km NW	890	42.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %
Montjean	53	596 km NW	1,020	30.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 72 % · humidity 43 %
Marpiré	35	622 km NW	1,023	31.8	Few services	no figures
Péroy-les-Gombries	60	668 km N	1,224	34	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 61 % · humidity 36 %

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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 Cavanac'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
Caux-et-Sauzens	11	8.6 km NW	1,025	34.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Espère	46	168 km NW	963	39.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Ventenac-Cabardès	11	11 km N	962	34.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Mas-Saintes-Puelles	11	40 km NW	923	46.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Corbère-les-Cabanes	66	63 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	11 km NW	882	34.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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