Pépieux

Aude · CA Carcassonne Agglo · INSEE 11280

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

Partly served 43.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 68 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Pépieux (INSEE 11280) is in Aude (11), part of CA Carcassonne Agglo. Population 1,118 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/11280-pepieux

Vitality score

Vitality score 43.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 68 % of the 13,662 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	0.39	25	9.75
Social	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.2	10	1.97
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.57	10	5.74
Housing mix	0.71	5	3.54

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 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 1 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) (LES PAINS DE CORLET). ^[3,4]

3 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (COCCIMARKET). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LE CARABAO · SIGNATURE BARISTA GOURMAND - SBG). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DU CAUSSE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE PÉPIEUX). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (ART ET COIFFURE · CREA'TIFS EN MINERVOIS). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING MUNICIPAL). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie), 2 × Hairdresser.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LES PAINS DE CORLET	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	3	COCCIMARKET	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [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	2	LE CARABAO · SIGNATURE BARISTA GOURMAND - SBG	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DU CAUSSE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	MÉDIATHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE PÉPIEUX	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	2	ART ET COIFFURE · CREA'TIFS EN MINERVOIS	INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	1	CAMPING MUNICIPAL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 807 2023: 1,118 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,012 (2012) → 1,118 (2023): 10.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,041 (1990) → 1,118 (2023): 7.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 663, of which 14.6 % second homes and 6.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, Pharmacy GP — 4.3 km NW 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 (Pépieux): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Pépieux): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (La Livinière): 4.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Pépieux): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Pépieux): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 45.3▸

Days at or below 0 °C 20.7

Muggy days a summer 11.8▸

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 45 days a year at or above 30 °C and 21 days at or below 0 °C, over 19 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LAURE-MINERVOIS weather station, 13.5 km away at 80 m; the village itself is at 85 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 12 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at LEZIGNAN-CORBIERES, 14.4 km away at 60 m, over 29 summers. ^[10]

An average of 661 mm of rain a year, spread over 76 days — about 8.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LAURE-MINERVOIS, 13.5 km away at 80 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 — 11280/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11280/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11280/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11280/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11280
INSEE BPE 2025 — 34141
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
Aube	61	627 km N	1,254	37.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 3 % · winter 62 % · humidity 14 %
Dollon	72	552 km N	1,427	39.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 73 % · humidity 21 %
Le Vivier-sur-Mer	35	683 km NW	1,065	34.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 78 % · humidity 29 %
Saint-Pierre-du-Chemin	85	462 km NW	1,354	44.1	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 89 % · humidity 21 %
Saint-Dyé-sur-Loire	41	493 km N	1,153	40.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 36 % · winter 76 %
Saint-Clément-des-Levées	49	501 km NW	1,128	36.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 82 % · humidity 29 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Pierre-du-Chemin	85	462 km NW	1,354	44.1	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 89 % · humidity 21 %
Saint-Dyé-sur-Loire	41	493 km N	1,153	40.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 36 % · winter 76 %
Saint-Clément-des-Levées	49	501 km NW	1,128	36.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 82 % · humidity 29 %
Dollon	72	552 km N	1,427	39.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 73 % · humidity 21 %
Aube	61	627 km N	1,254	37.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 3 % · winter 62 % · humidity 14 %
Le Vivier-sur-Mer	35	683 km NW	1,065	34.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 78 % · humidity 29 %

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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 Pépieux'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
Puichéric	11	8.9 km SW	1,198	49.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Fabrezan	11	18 km S	1,306	51.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Ornaisons	11	18 km SE	1,161	45.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Ferrals-les-Corbières	11	17 km S	1,275	45.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Lézignan-la-Cèbe	34	65 km E	1,580	47.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Azille	11	2.7 km SW	1,115	33.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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