Ferrals-les-Corbières

Aude · CC Région Lézignanaise, Corbières et Minervois · INSEE 11140

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

Partly served 45.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 69 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ferrals-les-Corbières (INSEE 11140) is in Aude (11), part of CC Région Lézignanaise, Corbières et Minervois. Population 1,275 (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/11140-ferrals-les-corbieres

Vitality score

Vitality score 45.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 69 % of the 12,855 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.66	20	13.11
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.2	10	1.97
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.75	10	7.51
Housing mix	0.7	5	3.51

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LES PAINS DE VILLA FERRAE). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LES BELLES SOEURS). ^[3,4]

5 × Restaurant (B.S · LE BURGER DES CORBIERES · L'APARTE · VILLOU TRAITEUR). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (CHEZ BEMBE). ^[4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ERIC GUIU, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE FERRALS-LES-CORBIÈRES). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (SANDRINE COIFFURE · HAIR CONCEPT BY MARJORIE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LES PAINS DE VILLA FERRAE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	LES BELLES SOEURS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	5	B.S · LE BURGER DES CORBIERES · L'APARTE · VILLOU TRAITEUR	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 10 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	CHEZ BEMBE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	ERIC GUIU, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE FERRALS-LES-CORBIÈRES	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	2	SANDRINE COIFFURE · HAIR CONCEPT BY MARJORIE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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 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: 1,080 2023: 1,275 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,174 (2012) → 1,275 (2023): 8.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,019 (1990) → 1,275 (2023): 25.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 786, of which 14.9 % second homes and 8.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 5.1 km NE 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 (Ferrals-les-Corbières): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

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

GP (Ferrals-les-Corbières): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Lézignan-Corbières): 5.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Ferrals-les-Corbières): 0.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 43.9

Days at or below 0 °C 15.8▸

Muggy days a summer 11.8▸

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

Measured at the LEZIGNAN-CORBIERES weather station, 2.8 km away at 60 m; the village itself is at 64 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 12 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at LEZIGNAN-CORBIERES, 2.8 km away at 60 m, over 29 summers. ^[10]

An average of 632 mm of rain a year, spread over 67 days — about 9.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at FERRALS-LES-CORBIERES, 0.4 km away at 65 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 — 11140/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11140/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11140/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11140/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11140
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11203
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
Villes-sur-Auzon	84	226 km NE	1,306	49.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 65 % · humidity 21 %
Saint-Julien-de-Peyrolas	30	195 km NE	1,531	49.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 76 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Joseph-de-Rivière	38	342 km NE	1,254	47.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 16 % · humidity 29 %
Les Échelles	73	350 km NE	1,286	44.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 38 % · humidity 29 %
Nancray	25	530 km NE	1,308	49.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 0 % · humidity 21 %
Bogève	74	448 km NE	1,200	46.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 0 % · humidity 14 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Julien-de-Peyrolas	30	195 km NE	1,531	49.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 76 % · humidity 64 %
Villes-sur-Auzon	84	226 km NE	1,306	49.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 65 % · humidity 21 %
Saint-Joseph-de-Rivière	38	342 km NE	1,254	47.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 16 % · humidity 29 %
Les Échelles	73	350 km NE	1,286	44.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 38 % · humidity 29 %
Bogève	74	448 km NE	1,200	46.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 0 % · humidity 14 %
Nancray	25	530 km NE	1,308	49.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 0 % · humidity 21 %

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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 Ferrals-les-Corbières'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
Fabrezan	11	2.5 km SW	1,306	51.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Pinet	34	70 km NE	2,049	48.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Lézignan-la-Cèbe	34	69 km NE	1,580	47.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Pépieux	11	17 km N	1,118	43.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Nézignan-l'Évêque	34	63 km NE	1,718	47.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Ornaisons	11	9.9 km NE	1,161	45.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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