Citou

Aude · CA Carcassonne Agglo · INSEE 11092

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

Few services 20.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 83 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Citou (INSEE 11092) is in Aude (11), part of CA Carcassonne Agglo. Population 101 (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/11092-citou

Vitality score

Vitality score 20.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 83 % of the 10,687 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.62	10	6.22
Housing mix	0.15	5	0.73

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 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]

2 × Restaurant (MBT CONSULT). ^[3,4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE CITOU MAIRIE DE CITOU). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	2	MBT CONSULT	INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE CITOU MAIRIE DE CITOU	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: 137 2023: 101 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 80 (2012) → 101 (2023): 26.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 90 (1990) → 101 (2023): 12.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 103, of which 42.7 % second homes and 4.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 5.5 km SGP — 5.6 km SPrimary school — 6.1 km SBakery — 9.2 km SWPharmacy — 9.3 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 (Villeneuve-Minervois): 9.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Caunes-Minervois): 5.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Caunes-Minervois): 5.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Villeneuve-Minervois): 9.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Caunes-Minervois): 6.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 18.2

Days at or below 0 °C 19.1

Muggy days a summer 6.1

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 18 days a year at or above 30 °C and 19 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CASTANS weather station, 5 km away at 650 m; the village itself is at 359 m. ^[10]

The village sits 291 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 6 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at CAUNES-MINERVOIS, 6.7 km away at 371 m, over 19 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,430 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 11.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CASTANS, 5 km away at 650 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 — 11092/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11092/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11092/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11092/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11433
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11081
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
Montambert	58	388 km N	114	13	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 43 % · humidity 71 %
Ally	43	208 km N	123	10.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 0 % · humidity 57 %
Aix-la-Fayette	63	251 km N	97	14.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 4 % · humidity 57 %
Maurines	15	172 km N	102	7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 11 % · humidity 57 %
Cras	46	155 km NW	97	19.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 53 % · humidity 71 %
Savennes	63	246 km N	96	11.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 38 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Cras	46	155 km NW	97	19.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 53 % · humidity 71 %
Maurines	15	172 km N	102	7	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 11 % · humidity 57 %
Ally	43	208 km N	123	10.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 0 % · humidity 57 %
Savennes	63	246 km N	96	11.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 38 % · humidity 57 %
Aix-la-Fayette	63	251 km N	97	14.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 4 % · humidity 57 %
Montambert	58	388 km N	114	13	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 43 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Citou'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
Hosta	64	295 km W	100	15.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Verneuil	16	305 km NW	92	14.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Roquefère	11	13 km W	69	18.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Tournefort	06	376 km E	147	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Maisons	11	50 km S	59	7.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Lustar	65	179 km W	95	7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

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