Pauligne

Aude · CC du Limouxin · INSEE 11274

A school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink.

Few services 21.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 44 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Pauligne (INSEE 11274) is in Aude (11), part of CC du Limouxin. Population 357 (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 21.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 44 % of the 18,074 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	25	0
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.64	10	6.37
Housing mix	0.81	5	4.06

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

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

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE PAULIGNE	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: 328 peak 2017: 357 2023: 357 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 332 (2012) → 357 (2023): 7.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 314 (1990) → 357 (2023): 13.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 224, of which 9.4 % second homes and 11.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 4.7 km EFood shop — 4.7 km EGP — 4.7 km EPharmacy — 4.7 km E 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 (Limoux): 4.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Limoux): 4.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Limoux): 4.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Limoux): 4.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Pauligne): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 43.7

Days at or below 0 °C 38.2

Muggy days a summer 12.8▸

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

Measured at the LIMOUX weather station, 4.4 km away at 230 m; the village itself is at 246 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 13 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ALAIGNE, 6.7 km away at 293 m, over 24 summers. ^[10]

An average of 646 mm of rain a year, spread over 93 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LIMOUX, 4.4 km away at 230 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 — 11274/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11274/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11274/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11274/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11206
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11274
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-Loup	41	467 km N	354	24.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 61 % · humidity 14 %
Chappes	10	589 km N	360	23.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 72 % · humidity 29 %
Genay	21	523 km N	370	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 80 % · humidity 14 %
Smermesnil	76	755 km N	361	25.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 91 % · humidity 14 %
Saint-Marc-la-Lande	79	433 km NW	356	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 100 % · humidity 36 %
Paray-le-Frésil	03	415 km N	376	17.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 80 % · humidity 14 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Paray-le-Frésil	03	415 km N	376	17.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 80 % · humidity 14 %
Saint-Marc-la-Lande	79	433 km NW	356	21.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 100 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Loup	41	467 km N	354	24.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 61 % · humidity 14 %
Genay	21	523 km N	370	22.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 80 % · humidity 14 %
Chappes	10	589 km N	360	23.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 72 % · humidity 29 %
Smermesnil	76	755 km N	361	25.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 91 % · humidity 14 %

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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 Pauligne'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
Malras	11	1.5 km SE	444	23.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
La Digne-d'Amont	11	3.4 km S	286	21.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Banos	40	237 km W	271	23.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Touzac	46	182 km NW	354	19	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Avit	81	50 km N	277	24.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Jonquières	81	64 km N	439	18.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %

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