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Escouloubre

Aude · CC Pyrénées audoises · INSEE 11127

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 3.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 2 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Escouloubre (INSEE 11127) is in Aude (11), part of CC Pyrénées audoises. Population 71 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/11127-escouloubre

Vitality score

Vitality score 3.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 2 % of the 7,494 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture0.3251.58
Population trend0.12101.23
Housing mix050

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 0 of 3
Health 0 of 4
Public services 1 of 1
Culture 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale1ESCOULOUBRE APINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 71 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 89 (2012) → 71 (2023): -20.2 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 114 (1990) → 71 (2023): -37.7 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 207, of which 78.7 % second homes and 0.5 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

10 km20 kmFood shop — 2.9 km E (Le Bousquet)GP — 4.9 km SW (Quérigut)Primary school — 5.0 km SW (Quérigut)Bakery — 11.3 km NE (Axat)Pharmacy — 12.7 km NW (Espezel)
Food shop — 2.9 km EGP — 4.9 km SWPrimary school — 5.0 km SWBakery — 11.3 km NEPharmacy — 12.7 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 (Axat): 11.3 km to the north-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Le Bousquet): 2.9 km to the east (straight line). [9]

GP (Quérigut): 4.9 km to the south-west (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Espezel): 12.7 km to the north-west (straight line). [11]

Primary school (Quérigut): 5 km to the south-west (straight line). [10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 74 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the BELCAIRE weather station, 15.7 km away at 980 m; the village itself is at 988 m. [12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. [12]

Humidity measured at BELCAIRE, 15.7 km away at 980 m, over 30 summers. [12]

An average of 1,032 mm of rain a year, spread over 114 days — about 9.1 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at ROQUEFORT-DE-SAULT, 5.5 km away at 1,017 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11127/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11127/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11127/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11127/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 11021
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 11047
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 09239
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 11130
  12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

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CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Carcanières093.0 km SW7011.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 85 %
Vielle-Louron65141 km W8011.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 57 % · humidity 100 %
Urdos64219 km W711.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 55 % · humidity 100 %
Avajan65141 km W8210.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 41 % · humidity 100 %
Nahuja6637 km S7411.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Cazenave-Serres-et-Allens0939 km W6611.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Carcanières093.0 km SW7011.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 85 %
Nahuja6637 km S7411.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Cazenave-Serres-et-Allens0939 km W6611.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 65 % · humidity 100 %
Avajan65141 km W8210.8No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 41 % · humidity 100 %
Vielle-Louron65141 km W8011.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 57 % · humidity 100 %
Urdos64219 km W711.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 55 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Escouloubre'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Aunat116.4 km N617.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Espinchal63301 km N7212No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Rodome118.0 km NW966.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Belfahy70667 km NE838.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Goudet43279 km NE859.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Castillon-de-Larboust31130 km W8415.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %