Pieusse

Aude · CC du Limouxin · INSEE 11289

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

Few services 33/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 43 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Pieusse (INSEE 11289) is in Aude (11), part of CC du Limouxin. Population 970 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Petites villes (level 3). ^[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 33/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 43 % of the 14,506 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.61	10	6.06
Housing mix	0.78	5	3.9

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (MAGNETIC NORTH · A TABLE! CHEZ MARINETTE). ^[3,4]

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

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE PIEUSSE JOSEPH DELTEIL). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[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	2	MAGNETIC NORTH · A TABLE! CHEZ MARINETTE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	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	PIEUSSE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE PIEUSSE JOSEPH DELTEIL	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 [3,4]
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: 458 peak 2012: 1,002 2023: 970 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,002 (2012) → 970 (2023): -3.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 877 (1990) → 970 (2023): 10.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 556, of which 11 % second homes and 8.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 1.1 km SWBakery — 1.8 km SWPharmacy — 2.1 km SWGP — 2.2 km SW 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): 1.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Limoux): 1.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Limoux): 2.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Limoux): 2.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 44.1▸

Days at or below 0 °C 31.9

Muggy days a summer 15▸

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 32 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LIMOUX weather station, 4.6 km away at 230 m; the village itself is at 180 m. ^[10]

The village sits 50 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 15 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ALAIGNE, 11.6 km away at 293 m, over 24 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 113 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[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, 4.6 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 — 11289/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11289/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11289/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11289/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11206
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11289
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
Roderen	68	645 km NE	902	31.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 59 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Féliu-d'Amont	66	59 km SE	1,292	28.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 91 % · humidity 79 %
Lirac	30	225 km NE	955	43.2	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 89 % · humidity 29 %
Mortefontaine-en-Thelle	60	688 km N	958	34.2	Few services	no figures
La Chapelle-du-Noyer	28	558 km N	1,015	22.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 76 % · humidity 0 %
Terrats	66	68 km SE	806	27.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 91 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Féliu-d'Amont	66	59 km SE	1,292	28.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 91 % · humidity 79 %
Terrats	66	68 km SE	806	27.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 91 % · humidity 79 %
Lirac	30	225 km NE	955	43.2	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 89 % · humidity 29 %
La Chapelle-du-Noyer	28	558 km N	1,015	22.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 76 % · humidity 0 %
Roderen	68	645 km NE	902	31.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 59 % · humidity 0 %
Mortefontaine-en-Thelle	60	688 km N	958	34.2	Few services	no figures

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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 Pieusse'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
Évenos	83	292 km E	2,406	57.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Doazit	40	242 km W	839	45.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Valence-sur-Baïse	32	174 km NW	1,147	42.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Lauraguel	11	5.3 km W	622	28.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Colombe	40	235 km W	633	37	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Castéra-Verduzan	32	166 km NW	1,041	59	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %

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