La Pomarède

Aude · CC Castelnaudary Lauragais Audois · INSEE 11292

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

Few services 30.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 91 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Pomarède (INSEE 11292) is in Aude (11), part of CC Castelnaudary Lauragais Audois. Population 188 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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 30.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 91 % of the 15,585 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.65	10	6.53
Housing mix	0.77	5	3.86

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]

1 × Restaurant (CHATEAU DE LA POMAREDE). ^[3,4]

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

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

1 × Library (AGENCE MULTISERVICE DE LA POMARÈDE). ^[3]

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

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	1	CHATEAU DE LA POMAREDE	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE 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	LA POMAREDE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	AGENCE MULTISERVICE DE LA POMARÈDE	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: 175 2023: 188 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 162 (2012) → 188 (2023): 16 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 163 (1990) → 188 (2023): 15.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 123, of which 11.4 % second homes and 17.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 2.0 km SFood shop — 5.1 km SBakery — 5.7 km NEPharmacy — 7.5 km NE 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 (Revel): 5.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

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

GP (Tréville): 2 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Revel): 7.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (La Pomarède): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 30.5

Days at or below 0 °C 14▸

Muggy days a summer 6.7

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 31 days a year at or above 30 °C and 14 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the LABECEDE LAURAGAIS_SAPC weather station, 6 km away at 408 m; the village itself is at 270 m. ^[12]

The village sits 138 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 7 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at CASTELNAUDARY, 11 km away at 160 m, over 28 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 110 m below 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 886 mm of rain a year, spread over 111 days — about 8 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at LABECEDE LAURAGAIS_SAPC, 6 km away at 408 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11292/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11292/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11292/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11292/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 31451
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11284
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11399
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11292
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
Mercœur	19	179 km N	228	24.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 34 % · humidity 50 %
Marsac	82	109 km NW	178	19	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 61 %
Sail-les-Bains	42	349 km NE	209	24.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 58 % · humidity 29 %
Rouffiac	15	181 km N	181	23.4	Few services	no figures
Audaux	64	222 km W	171	25.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 70 % · humidity 29 %
Riguepeu	32	132 km W	164	23.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Marsac	82	109 km NW	178	19	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 61 %
Riguepeu	32	132 km W	164	23.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 64 %
Mercœur	19	179 km N	228	24.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 34 % · humidity 50 %
Rouffiac	15	181 km N	181	23.4	Few services	no figures
Audaux	64	222 km W	171	25.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 82 % · winter 70 % · humidity 29 %
Sail-les-Bains	42	349 km NE	209	24.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 58 % · 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 La Pomarède'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
Saint-Élix-d'Astarac	32	95 km W	187	23.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Laymont	32	78 km W	232	22.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Avit	47	190 km NW	185	19.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Cours	47	149 km NW	195	16.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Goutz	32	108 km NW	212	22.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Lupiac	32	146 km W	310	37.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

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