Lacombe

Aude · CC de la Montagne Noire · INSEE 11182

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

No daily shops 17.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 54 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lacombe (INSEE 11182) is in Aude (11), part of CC de la Montagne Noire. Population 188 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[2]

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 17.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 54 % of the 15,585 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.85	10	8.53
Housing mix	0.01	5	0.07

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (RESTAURANT LA PRISE D'ALZEAU). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[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	1	RESTAURANT LA PRISE D'ALZEAU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 153 2023: 188 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 168 (2012) → 188 (2023): 11.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 139 (1990) → 188 (2023): 35.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 205, of which 49.3 % second homes and 3.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 3.2 km SPrimary school — 3.4 km SPharmacy — 4.9 km SEBakery — 5.0 km SEGP — 5.1 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 (Cuxac-Cabardès): 5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Fontiers-Cabardès): 3.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Cuxac-Cabardès): 5.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Cuxac-Cabardès): 4.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Fontiers-Cabardès): 3.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 6

Days at or below 0 °C 60.8

Muggy days a summer 0.9

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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 61 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LES MARTYS weather station, 4.9 km away at 760 m; the village itself is at 721 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at LES MARTYS, 4.9 km away at 760 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 1,313 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 10.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LES MARTYS, 4.9 km away at 760 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 — 11182/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11182/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11182/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11182/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11115
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11150
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
Bouteilles-Saint-Sébastien	24	265 km NW	172	11.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 47 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Pierre-Bellevue	23	282 km N	215	13	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 50 % · humidity 93 %
Calès	46	167 km N	169	16.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 95 % · humidity 79 %
Le Roc	46	175 km N	207	15.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 95 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Hilaire-les-Courbes	19	248 km N	178	16.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 66 %
Marnac	24	187 km NW	187	14.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 54 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Calès	46	167 km N	169	16.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 95 % · humidity 79 %
Le Roc	46	175 km N	207	15.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 95 % · humidity 64 %
Marnac	24	187 km NW	187	14.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 49 % · winter 54 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Hilaire-les-Courbes	19	248 km N	178	16.8	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 66 %
Bouteilles-Saint-Sébastien	24	265 km NW	172	11.4	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 47 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Pierre-Bellevue	23	282 km N	215	13	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 50 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Lacombe'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
Singles	63	241 km N	171	3.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Chanéac	07	238 km NE	254	14.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Georges-Nigremont	23	271 km N	134	12.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Amont-et-Effreney	70	601 km NE	168	12.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Rempnat	87	256 km N	141	11.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Goussaud	23	299 km N	157	14.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

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