Cournanel

Aude · CC du Limouxin · INSEE 11105

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

Few services 34.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 62 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Cournanel (INSEE 11105) is in Aude (11), part of CC du Limouxin. Population 659 (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/11105-cournanel

Vitality score

Vitality score 34.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 62 % of the 16,687 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.81	10	8.13
Housing mix	0.86	5	4.3

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 0 of 3

Lodging 1 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LA TERRASSE DES CH'TIS · BOUQUET DES SAVEURS). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE COURNANEL). ^[3]

1 × Hotel (AUBERGE DE LA CORNEILLA). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 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)	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	LA TERRASSE DES CH'TIS · BOUQUET DES SAVEURS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE ROBERT BADOC	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	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE COURNANEL	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	1	AUBERGE DE LA CORNEILLA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 246 peak 2017: 714 2023: 659 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 665 (2012) → 659 (2023): -0.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 502 (1990) → 659 (2023): 31.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 371, of which 7 % second homes and 9.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 1.4 km NBakery — 2.4 km NWGP — 2.5 km NWPharmacy — 2.5 km NW 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): 2.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Limoux): 1.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Limoux): 2.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Limoux): 2.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Cournanel): 0.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 43.7

Days at or below 0 °C 38.2

Muggy days a summer 7.3

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

Measured at the LIMOUX weather station, 3.1 km away at 230 m; the village itself is at 203 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at GRANES, 13.7 km away at 420 m, over 25 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 217 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 646 mm of rain a year, spread over 93 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LIMOUX, 3.1 km away at 230 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 — 11105/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11105/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11105/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11105/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11206
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11105
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
Thérouldeville	76	759 km N	664	34	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 0 % · winter 73 %
Ernolsheim-lès-Saverne	67	754 km NE	601	32.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 82 % · humidity 64 %
Cosswiller	67	740 km NE	610	33	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 81 % · humidity 64 %
Limersheim	67	735 km NE	681	33.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 73 % · humidity 64 %
Boullay-les-Troux	91	628 km N	624	33.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 91 % · humidity 57 %
Gennes	25	559 km NE	669	32.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 20 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Gennes	25	559 km NE	669	32.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 20 % · humidity 57 %
Boullay-les-Troux	91	628 km N	624	33.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 91 % · humidity 57 %
Limersheim	67	735 km NE	681	33.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 73 % · humidity 64 %
Cosswiller	67	740 km NE	610	33	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 81 % · humidity 64 %
Ernolsheim-lès-Saverne	67	754 km NE	601	32.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 82 % · humidity 64 %
Thérouldeville	76	759 km N	664	34	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 0 % · winter 73 %

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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 Cournanel'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
Saint-Désirat	07	320 km NE	891	33.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Les Aires	34	93 km NE	618	38	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Lavergne	47	227 km NW	554	26.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Roumagne	47	233 km NW	539	31.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Barry-d'Islemade	82	141 km NW	940	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Argelliers	34	138 km NE	1,002	31.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %

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