Cépie

Aude · CC du Limouxin · INSEE 11090

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

Partly served 42.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 83 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Cépie (INSEE 11090) is in Aude (11), part of CC du Limouxin. Population 598 (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 42.2/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 83 % of the 17,075 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	0.5	25	12.47
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.95	10	9.48
Housing mix	0.88	5	4.42

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

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (SARL BERNARD BERAIL). ^[3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (ARCADIE 11 · AL'OUSTALET). ^[3,4]

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

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

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

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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)	1	SARL BERNARD BERAIL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	ARCADIE 11 · AL'OUSTALET	INSEE BPE 2 / 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 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE	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	CEPIE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE CÉPIE	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		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: 292 peak 2012: 657 2023: 598 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 657 (2012) → 598 (2023): -9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 413 (1990) → 598 (2023): 44.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 313, of which 5.8 % second homes and 7.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 4.4 km SWPharmacy — 4.7 km SWGP — 4.8 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 (Limoux): 4.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Cépie): 0 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Limoux): 4.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Limoux): 4.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 44.4▸

Days at or below 0 °C 31.6

Muggy days a summer 15.9▸

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 32 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LIMOUX weather station, 7.3 km away at 230 m; the village itself is at 154 m. ^[10]

The village sits 76 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.7 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 16 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ALAIGNE, 11.9 km away at 293 m, over 24 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 139 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 719 mm of rain a year, spread over 98 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at MONTCLAR, 3.6 km away at 220 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11090/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11090/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11090/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11090/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11206
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11090
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
Vouzailles	86	435 km N	566	38.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 78 % · humidity 14 %
Saint-Gengoux-de-Scissé	71	424 km NE	592	32.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 76 % · humidity 0 %
Échouboulains	77	599 km N	555	29.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 61 % · humidity 7 %
Morizès	33	251 km NW	527	31.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 92 % · humidity 43 %
Chepniers	17	314 km NW	697	48	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 56 % · winter 93 %
Plottes	71	434 km NE	558	26.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 76 % · humidity 0 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Morizès	33	251 km NW	527	31.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 92 % · humidity 43 %
Chepniers	17	314 km NW	697	48	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 56 % · winter 93 %
Saint-Gengoux-de-Scissé	71	424 km NE	592	32.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 76 % · humidity 0 %
Plottes	71	434 km NE	558	26.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 76 % · humidity 0 %
Vouzailles	86	435 km N	566	38.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 78 % · humidity 14 %
Échouboulains	77	599 km N	555	29.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 61 % · 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 Cépie'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
Lauraguel	11	5.8 km W	622	28.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Horsarrieu	40	239 km W	717	14.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Montsoué	40	233 km W	566	26.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Colombe	40	235 km W	633	37	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
La Digne-d'Amont	11	9.7 km SW	286	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Banos	40	242 km W	271	23.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %

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