Couffoulens

Aude · CA Carcassonne Agglo · INSEE 11102

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

Few services 22.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 31 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Couffoulens (INSEE 11102) is in Aude (11), part of CA Carcassonne Agglo. Population 533 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/11102-couffoulens

Vitality score

Vitality score 22.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 31 % of the 17,580 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.47	10	4.71
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.64

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 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”.

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

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

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE COUFFOULENS). ^[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, 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)	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]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	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	COUFFOULENS AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE COUFFOULENS	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: 527 peak 2012: 627 2023: 533 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 627 (2012) → 533 (2023): -15 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 549 (1990) → 533 (2023): -2.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 308, of which 3.6 % second homes and 13 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 1.4 km SEBakery — 1.5 km SEGP — 2.1 km SEPharmacy — 4.7 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): 1.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Leuc): 1.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Leuc): 2.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Carcassonne): 4.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Couffoulens): 0.2 km to the west (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, 6.7 km away at 128 m; the village itself is at 124 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at CARCASSONNE, 6.7 km away at 128 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 719 mm of rain a year, spread over 98 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MONTCLAR, 5.3 km away at 220 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 — 11102/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11102/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11102/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11102/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11201
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11069
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11102
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
Messincourt	08	757 km N	580	23.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 30 % · humidity 29 %
Mondicourt	62	781 km N	600	21.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 72 % · humidity 36 %
Brousseval	52	628 km N	615	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 43 % · humidity 50 %
Champdôtre	21	505 km NE	600	24.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 43 % · humidity 43 %
Fresne-Léguillon	60	679 km N	440	23.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 61 % · humidity 36 %
Maillé	86	429 km NW	637	28.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 62 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Maillé	86	429 km NW	637	28.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 62 % · humidity 57 %
Champdôtre	21	505 km NE	600	24.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 43 % · humidity 43 %
Brousseval	52	628 km N	615	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 43 % · humidity 50 %
Fresne-Léguillon	60	679 km N	440	23.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 61 % · humidity 36 %
Messincourt	08	757 km N	580	23.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 30 % · humidity 29 %
Mondicourt	62	781 km N	600	21.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 72 % · 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 Couffoulens'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
Aumes	34	100 km E	498	27.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Preixan	11	2.0 km SW	637	33.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
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 %
Ventenac-Cabardès	11	12 km N	962	34.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Douzens	11	24 km E	784	39.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Fontiès-d'Aude	11	12 km E	560	36	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

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