Moussoulens

Aude · CA Carcassonne Agglo · INSEE 11259

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

Partly served 49.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 85 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Moussoulens (INSEE 11259) is in Aude (11), part of CA Carcassonne Agglo. Population 956 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 49.3/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 85 % of the 14,595 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	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.9	5	4.49

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 0 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (CHEZ LYLI). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE ROMARIN). ^[4]

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

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE MOUSSOULENS). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[4,3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	CHEZ LYLI	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LE ROMARIN	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE MOUSSOULENS	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]
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: 519 peak 2017: 1,018 2023: 956 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 976 (2012) → 956 (2023): -2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 613 (1990) → 956 (2023): 56 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 534, of which 5.1 % second homes and 11.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school GP — 3.1 km NWPharmacy — 3.3 km NFood shop — 3.8 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 (Moussoulens): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Montolieu): 3.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Montolieu): 3.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Montolieu): 3.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Moussoulens): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 37.6

Days at or below 0 °C 19.9

Muggy days a summer 9.7

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 38 days a year at or above 30 °C and 20 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CARCASSONNE weather station, 8.8 km away at 128 m; the village itself is at 171 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at CARCASSONNE, 8.8 km away at 128 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 861 mm of rain a year, spread over 102 days — about 8.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at MONTOLIEU, 3.7 km away at 280 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 — 11259/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11259/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11259/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11259/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11259
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11253
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
Oyré	86	419 km N	962	44.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 57 % · humidity 50 %
Civray	18	410 km N	926	42.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 55 % · humidity 64 %
Cour-et-Buis	38	326 km NE	920	49.5	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 72 % · humidity 43 %
Lens-Lestang	26	316 km NE	884	48.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 76 % · humidity 36 %
Valsonne	69	344 km NE	1,005	36.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 65 % · humidity 43 %
Garlan	29	751 km NW	1,043	34.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 86 % · humidity 36 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Lens-Lestang	26	316 km NE	884	48.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 76 % · humidity 36 %
Cour-et-Buis	38	326 km NE	920	49.5	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 72 % · humidity 43 %
Valsonne	69	344 km NE	1,005	36.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 65 % · humidity 43 %
Civray	18	410 km N	926	42.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 55 % · humidity 64 %
Oyré	86	419 km N	962	44.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 57 % · humidity 50 %
Garlan	29	751 km NW	1,043	34.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 86 % · humidity 36 %

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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 Moussoulens'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
La Croix-Blanche	47	167 km NW	1,075	39.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Lasbordes	11	15 km W	846	46.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Aureville	31	67 km W	1,048	35.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Antoine-de-Ficalba	47	169 km NW	721	36.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Crayssac	46	155 km NW	844	34.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Martin-Lalande	11	17 km W	1,107	37.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

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