Val-du-Faby

Aude · CC Pyrénées audoises · INSEE 11131

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

Partly served 43.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 85 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Val-du-Faby (INSEE 11131) is in Aude (11), part of CC Pyrénées audoises. Population 580 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2019-01-01 from 1 former commune: Rouvenac (11329). ^[3]

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

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Vitality score

Vitality score 43.1/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 85 % of the 17,296 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	0.86	20	17.29
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.88	10	8.84
Housing mix	0.53	5	2.63

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 1 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[4,5]

2 × Restaurant (AUBERGE DU FABY). ^[4,5]

2 × Café / bar (LA GRANGE DU SOLEIL · LE CAFE DE FA). ^[5]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE). ^[4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE ROUVENAC). ^[4]

1 × Hairdresser (FANNY COIFFURE). ^[4,5]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 2 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Restaurant	2	AUBERGE DU FABY	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [4,5]
Café / bar	2	LA GRANGE DU SOLEIL · LE CAFE DE FA	INSEE SIRENE 2 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE ROUVENAC	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	1	FANNY COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 499 peak 2012: 603 2023: 580 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 603 (2012) → 580 (2023): -3.8 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 419 (1990) → 580 (2023): 38.4 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 464, of which 23.7 % second homes and 10.1 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.3 km EFood shop — 2.3 km EGP — 2.3 km EPharmacy — 5.0 km E 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 (Espéraza): 2.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Espéraza): 2.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Espéraza): 2.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Couiza): 5 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Val-du-Faby): 0.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 38.2

Days at or below 0 °C 20.9

Muggy days a summer 5.9

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 21 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the GRANES weather station, 5.7 km away at 420 m; the village itself is at 291 m. ^[12]

The village sits 129 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at GRANES, 5.7 km away at 420 m, over 25 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 129 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 702 mm of rain a year, spread over 95 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at GRANES, 5.7 km away at 420 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11131/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11131/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11131/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11131/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11129
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11103
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11131
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
Tréogat	29	751 km NW	573	43.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 10 % · winter 81 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Aignan	56	710 km NW	637	37.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 78 % · humidity 64 %
Peypin-d'Aigues	84	289 km E	664	42.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 64 % · humidity 57 %
Carnas	30	176 km NE	537	39.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 47 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Nathalène	24	230 km N	648	42.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 64 % · humidity 64 %
Le Pin	30	229 km NE	474	42.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Carnas	30	176 km NE	537	39.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 36 % · winter 47 % · humidity 100 %
Le Pin	30	229 km NE	474	42.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Nathalène	24	230 km N	648	42.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 64 % · humidity 64 %
Peypin-d'Aigues	84	289 km E	664	42.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 64 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Aignan	56	710 km NW	637	37.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 78 % · humidity 64 %
Tréogat	29	751 km NW	573	43.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 10 % · winter 81 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Val-du-Faby'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
Moncaut	47	191 km NW	589	38.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Villemagne-l'Argentière	34	107 km NE	415	45.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Aragon	11	41 km N	487	35.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Caprais-de-Lerm	47	184 km NW	713	33.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Arras-sur-Rhône	07	322 km NE	529	44.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Pechs-de-l'Espérance	24	225 km N	796	31.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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