Coursan

Aude · CA Le Grand Narbonne · INSEE 11106

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

Partly served 50.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 40 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Coursan (INSEE 11106) is in Aude (11), part of CA Le Grand Narbonne. Population 5,737 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Petites villes (level 3). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/11106-coursan

Vitality score

Vitality score 50.1/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 40 % of the 4,101 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	0.34	25	8.55
Social	0.68	20	13.54
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.47	10	4.67
Public & culture	0.22	5	1.11
Population trend	0.62	10	6.17
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.63

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 3 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 3 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LES DUNES). ^[3,4]

4 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (ANDUZE DISTRIBUTION · PERIS · LE PANIER DE MARIE). ^[3,4]

2 × Supermarket (SUPER U · LIDL). ^[3,4]

7 × Restaurant (CHEZ MANU · SAVEURS DU SOLEIL · CHEZ JOJO · PIZZERIA CHEZ BRUNO). ^[3,4]

3 × Café / bar (LES FONTAINES · LA TABATIERE). ^[4]

2 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOL MATE DANIELLE CASANOVA · ECOLE MATERNELLE ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY). ^[3]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUB JEANNE MIQUEL · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE RICHARD CHAVERNAC). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE LES MAILHEULS). ^[3]

5 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JULIEN JAUVERT, MÉDECIN · MURIEL KOUNDE-BEAUHAIRE, MÉDECIN · LAURENT BATTIN, MÉDECIN · LAURENCE SANTINI-GARCIA, MÉDECIN · GILLES DYBEK, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE D OCCITANIE). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

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

2 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF MARCEL FAURE · COLLEGE DE COURSAN). ^[3]

4 × Bank (CAISSE EPARGNE PREVOYANCE LANGUEDOC ROUSSILLON · CIC SOCIETE BORDELAISE · CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL DU LANGUEDOC · BPS COURSAN). ^[3]

9 × Hairdresser (MIL'COUPE · RICHARD COIFFURE · AUDACE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 4 × Restaurant, 1 × Pharmacy, 2 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie). ^[4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	LES DUNES	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	4	ANDUZE DISTRIBUTION · PERIS · LE PANIER DE MARIE	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [3,4]
Supermarket	2	SUPER U · LIDL	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	7	CHEZ MANU · SAVEURS DU SOLEIL · CHEZ JOJO · PIZZERIA CHEZ BRUNO	INSEE BPE 7 / INSEE SIRENE 14 [3,4]
Café / bar	3	LES FONTAINES · LA TABATIERE	INSEE SIRENE 3 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	2	ECOL MATE DANIELLE CASANOVA · ECOLE MATERNELLE ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUB JEANNE MIQUEL · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE RICHARD CHAVERNAC	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE LES MAILHEULS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	5	JULIEN JAUVERT, MÉDECIN · MURIEL KOUNDE-BEAUHAIRE, MÉDECIN · LAURENT BATTIN, MÉDECIN · LAURENCE SANTINI-GARCIA, MÉDECIN · GILLES DYBEK, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 5 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE D OCCITANIE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE COURSAN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	2	COMPLEXE SPORTIF MARCEL FAURE · COLLEGE DE COURSAN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	4	CAISSE EPARGNE PREVOYANCE LANGUEDOC ROUSSILLON · CIC SOCIETE BORDELAISE · CAISSE REGIONALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL DU LANGUEDOC · BPS COURSAN	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Hairdresser	9	MIL'COUPE · RICHARD COIFFURE · AUDACE COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 9 / INSEE SIRENE 12 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 3,366 peak 2007: 6,166 2023: 5,737 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 6,056 (2012) → 5,737 (2023): -5.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 5,137 (1990) → 5,737 (2023): 11.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 3,205, of which 3.7 % second homes and 12.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, Pharmacy GP — 0.5 km SE 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 (Coursan): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Coursan): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Coursan): 0.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Coursan): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Coursan): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 41.6

Days at or below 0 °C 11.3▸

Muggy days a summer 19.2▸

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 42 days a year at or above 30 °C and 11 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the NARBONNE-EGASSIAIRAL weather station, 6.8 km away at 5 m; the village itself is at 6 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 19 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at NARBONNE, 12.4 km away at 110 m, over 30 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 104 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 614 mm of rain a year, spread over 60 days — about 10.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at FLEURY, 6.6 km away at 19 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11106/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11106/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11106/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11106/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11106
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
Mourenx	64	299 km W	5,695	48.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 80 % · humidity 71 %
Beauvoisin	30	116 km NE	6,066	49.2	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 85 % · humidity 21 %
Mer	41	511 km N	6,250	52.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 46 % · winter 49 %
Blaye	33	364 km NW	5,066	58.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 86 % · humidity 36 %
Izon	33	331 km NW	6,374	40.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 61 % · humidity 7 %
Luzarches	95	656 km N	5,008	52.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 73 % · humidity 0 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Beauvoisin	30	116 km NE	6,066	49.2	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 85 % · humidity 21 %
Mourenx	64	299 km W	5,695	48.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 80 % · humidity 71 %
Izon	33	331 km NW	6,374	40.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 61 % · humidity 7 %
Blaye	33	364 km NW	5,066	58.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 86 % · humidity 36 %
Mer	41	511 km N	6,250	52.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 46 % · winter 49 %
Luzarches	95	656 km N	5,008	52.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 73 % · humidity 0 %

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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 Coursan'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
Salles-d'Aude	11	5.0 km E	3,369	38.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Aigues-Mortes	30	99 km E	8,699	71.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Biguglia	2B	524 km E	7,642	73.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Furiani	2B	523 km E	6,585	61.3	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Fleury	11	6.4 km E	4,246	63.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Alénya	66	67 km S	3,782	47.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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