Val-de-Dagne

Aude · CA Carcassonne Agglo · INSEE 11251

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

Partly served 48.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 89 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Val-de-Dagne (INSEE 11251) is in Aude (11), part of CA Carcassonne Agglo. Population 731 (2023). ^[1]

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

Commune nouvelle formed on 2019-01-01 from 1 former commune: Pradelles-en-Val (11298). ^[3]

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/11251-val-de-dagne

Vitality score

Vitality score 48.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 89 % of the 16,211 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.86	5	4.32
Population trend	0.67	10	6.71
Housing mix	0.54	5	2.7

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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. ^[4,5]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LA PETITE NORMANDIE DE L'AUDE - M-D-K-M). ^[4,5]

1 × Restaurant (SARL ANTONINI GROUP). ^[4,5]

1 × Café / bar. ^[5]

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

1 × Pharmacy. ^[4,5]

2 × Post office / agence postale (MONTLAUR AP · PRADELLES EN VAL AP). ^[4]

2 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DU VAL-DE-DAGNE · BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE MONTLAUR). ^[4]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[4,5]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste). ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	LA PETITE NORMANDIE DE L'AUDE - M-D-K-M	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	SARL ANTONINI GROUP	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4,5]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	2	MONTLAUR AP · PRADELLES EN VAL AP	INSEE BPE 2 [4]
Library	2	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DU VAL-DE-DAGNE · BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE MONTLAUR	INSEE BPE 2 [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		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 893 2023: 731 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 716 (2012) → 731 (2023): 2.1 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 624 (1990) → 731 (2023): 17.1 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 518, of which 23 % second homes and 2.7 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 5.3 km SWPharmacy — 5.4 km SWBakery — 6.6 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 (Lagrasse): 6.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Val-de-Dagne): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Serviès-en-Val): 5.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Pharmacy (Serviès-en-Val): 5.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Val-de-Dagne): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 32.8

Days at or below 0 °C 17.7▸

Muggy days a summer 8.8

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 33 days a year at or above 30 °C and 18 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ARQUETTES-EN-VAL weather station, 5.4 km away at 240 m; the village itself is at 197 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 9 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at ARQUETTES-EN-VAL, 5.4 km away at 240 m, over 18 summers. ^[12]

An average of 780 mm of rain a year, spread over 94 days — about 8.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ARQUETTES-EN-VAL, 5.4 km away at 240 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 — 11251/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11251/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11251/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11251/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11185
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11251
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11378
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
Le Vaudoué	77	581 km N	731	42	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 26 % · humidity 50 %
Laguépie	82	122 km NW	644	51.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 73 %
Turenne	19	228 km N	801	43.7	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 57 % · humidity 50 %
Gauriac	33	333 km NW	759	57.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Thois	29	751 km NW	703	48.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 100 % · humidity 43 %
Bourmont-entre-Meuse-et-Mouzon	52	610 km N	740	39.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 0 % · humidity 43 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Laguépie	82	122 km NW	644	51.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 73 %
Turenne	19	228 km N	801	43.7	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 57 % · humidity 50 %
Gauriac	33	333 km NW	759	57.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Le Vaudoué	77	581 km N	731	42	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 26 % · humidity 50 %
Bourmont-entre-Meuse-et-Mouzon	52	610 km N	740	39.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 0 % · humidity 43 %
Saint-Thois	29	751 km NW	703	48.8	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 100 % · humidity 43 %

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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-de-Dagne'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
Lasbordes	11	45 km NW	846	46.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Lagrasse	11	6.5 km SE	554	59.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Villeneuve-Minervois	11	22 km N	979	64.1	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Mauzac-et-Grand-Castang	24	239 km NW	879	29.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Pechs-de-l'Espérance	24	216 km NW	796	31.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Grignols	24	271 km NW	667	35.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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