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Mireval-Lauragais

Aude · CC Castelnaudary Lauragais Audois · INSEE 11234

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

No daily shops 14.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 34 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Mireval-Lauragais (INSEE 11234) is in Aude (11), part of CC Castelnaudary Lauragais Audois. Population 193 (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/11234-mireval-lauragais

Vitality score

Vitality score 14.1/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 34 % of the 15,747 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 & culture050
Population trend0.81108.13
Housing mix0.7853.89

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 0 of 1
Culture 0 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”.

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

1 × Hairdresser (L'HAIR CHOUET'). [3,4]

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, Post office / agence postale, 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 postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser1L'HAIR CHOUET'INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 168 2023: 193 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 157 (2012) → 193 (2023): 22.9 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 147 (1990) → 193 (2023): 31.3 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 117, of which 11.1 % second homes and 12 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 2.1 km NW (Fendeille)Primary school — 2.1 km NW (Fendeille)Food shop — 5.2 km N (Castelnaudary)GP — 6.5 km N (Castelnaudary)Pharmacy — 6.5 km N (Castelnaudary)
Bakery — 2.1 km NWPrimary school — 2.1 km NWFood shop — 5.2 km NGP — 6.5 km NPharmacy — 6.5 km N 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 (Fendeille): 2.1 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Castelnaudary): 5.2 km to the north (straight line). [9]

GP (Castelnaudary): 6.5 km to the north (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Castelnaudary): 6.5 km to the north (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Fendeille): 2.1 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

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 29 days a year at or above 30 °C and 27 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the CASTELNAUDARY weather station, 5.7 km away at 160 m; the village itself is at 260 m. [10]

The village sits 100 m above 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. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at CASTELNAUDARY, 5.7 km away at 160 m, over 28 summers. [10]

That station sits 100 m below 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 684 mm of rain a year, spread over 96 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at CASTELNAUDARY, 5.7 km away at 160 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11234/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11234/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11234/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11234/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 11138
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 11076
  10. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Chaumercenne70534 km NE19414.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 31 % · humidity 64 %
Aubermesnil-aux-Érables76731 km N19510.7No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 96 % · humidity 57 %
Le Manoir14699 km N19516.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 84 % · humidity 57 %
Antist65149 km W18916.3No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 89 % · humidity 79 %
Drosnay51627 km N19412.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 68 % · humidity 64 %
Liebenswiller68638 km NE19112.8No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 31 % · humidity 57 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Antist65149 km W18916.3No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 89 % · humidity 79 %
Chaumercenne70534 km NE19414.9No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 31 % · humidity 64 %
Drosnay51627 km N19412.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 68 % · humidity 64 %
Liebenswiller68638 km NE19112.8No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 31 % · humidity 57 %
Le Manoir14699 km N19516.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 84 % · humidity 57 %
Aubermesnil-aux-Érables76731 km N19510.7No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 96 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Mireval-Lauragais'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
Beauteville3121 km NW19316.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Cuqueron64203 km W1899.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Aignan33261 km NW1927.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Bellefond33239 km NW21312.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Baraigne1114 km NW16314.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Étriac16298 km NW20613.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %