Laure-Minervois

Aude · CA Carcassonne Agglo · INSEE 11198

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

Few services 29.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 28 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Laure-Minervois (INSEE 11198) is in Aude (11), part of CA Carcassonne Agglo. Population 1,061 (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/11198-laure-minervois

Vitality score

Vitality score 29.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 28 % of the 13,967 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	20	0
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.42	10	4.15
Housing mix	0.7	5	3.51

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 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”.

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LE PANIER DE LAURE). ^[3,4]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (DANIEL CUVELLIER, MÉDECIN · HANDE NOYAN, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DES CAPITELLES). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LAURE MINER AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE LAURE-MINERVOIS). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[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)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	LE PANIER DE LAURE	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE DES CAPITELLES	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	DANIEL CUVELLIER, MÉDECIN · HANDE NOYAN, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DES CAPITELLES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LAURE MINER AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE LAURE-MINERVOIS	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 1,156 peak 1990: 1,159 2023: 1,061 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,072 (2012) → 1,061 (2023): -1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,159 (1990) → 1,061 (2023): -8.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 665, of which 14.9 % second homes and 8.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Bakery — 5.8 km S 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 (Badens): 5.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Laure-Minervois): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Laure-Minervois): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Laure-Minervois): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Laure-Minervois): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 45.3▸

Days at or below 0 °C 20.7

Muggy days a summer 10.6▸

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 45 days a year at or above 30 °C and 21 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LAURE-MINERVOIS weather station, 0.2 km away at 80 m; the village itself is at 83 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 11 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at CAUNES-MINERVOIS, 7.8 km away at 371 m, over 19 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 288 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 661 mm of rain a year, spread over 76 days — about 8.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LAURE-MINERVOIS, 0.2 km away at 80 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 — 11198/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11198/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11198/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11198/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11198
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
Saint-Christophe-sur-le-Nais	37	509 km N	1,067	30	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 78 % · humidity 36 %
Villasavary	11	39 km W	1,220	41.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 95 % · humidity 79 %
Tronget	03	353 km N	925	50.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 54 % · humidity 29 %
Chanu	61	655 km N	1,243	34.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 73 % · humidity 21 %
Alboussière	07	256 km NE	1,048	50.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 49 % · humidity 29 %
Viry	39	422 km NE	904	41.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 11 % · humidity 21 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Villasavary	11	39 km W	1,220	41.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 95 % · humidity 79 %
Alboussière	07	256 km NE	1,048	50.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 49 % · humidity 29 %
Tronget	03	353 km N	925	50.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 54 % · humidity 29 %
Viry	39	422 km NE	904	41.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 11 % · humidity 21 %
Saint-Christophe-sur-le-Nais	37	509 km N	1,067	30	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 78 % · humidity 36 %
Chanu	61	655 km N	1,243	34.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 73 % · 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 Laure-Minervois'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
Capendu	11	10 km S	1,453	47	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Ornaisons	11	28 km E	1,161	45.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Mercuès	46	164 km NW	1,122	58.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Peyriac-Minervois	11	4.4 km NE	1,123	39.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Puichéric	11	9.9 km SE	1,198	49.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Cruscades	11	26 km E	936	41.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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