Padern

Identity

Padern (INSEE 11270) is in Aude (11), part of CC Corbières Salanque Méditerranée. Population 139 (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/11270-padern

Vitality score

Vitality score 23/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 82 % of the 13,473 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.

Services

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

2 × Restaurant (LE VIGNOBLE DU PRIEURE · LA P'TITE ARDOISE). ^[3,4]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (DAVID HERREROS FELIP, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

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

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

Population 127 (2012) → 139 (2023): 9.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 145 (1990) → 139 (2023): -4.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 196, of which 53.1 % second homes and 2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Cucugnan): 4.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Paziols): 5.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Padern): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Maury): 8.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Paziols): 5.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

An average of 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 14 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the CUCUGNAN weather station, 5.2 km away at 299 m; the village itself is at 197 m. ^[12]

The village sits 102 m below 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. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at MOUTHOUMET, 14.6 km away at 538 m, over 29 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 341 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 780 mm of rain a year, spread over 83 days — about 9.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at CUCUGNAN, 5.2 km away at 299 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11270/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11270/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11270/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11270/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 11113
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 11276
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 11270
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 66107
12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024