Preixan

Aude · CA Carcassonne Agglo · INSEE 11299

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

Few services 33.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 61 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Preixan (INSEE 11299) is in Aude (11), part of CA Carcassonne Agglo. Population 637 (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/11299-preixan

Vitality score

Vitality score 33.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 61 % of the 16,806 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	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.98	10	9.78
Housing mix	0.9	5	4.49

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 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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. ^[3,4]

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

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

2 × Hairdresser (CINDY COIFFURE · LES CISEAUX D'AURE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	PREIXAN AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	CINDY COIFFURE · LES CISEAUX D'AURE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 403 2023: 637 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 593 (2012) → 637 (2023): 7.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 431 (1990) → 637 (2023): 47.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 353, of which 5.1 % second homes and 11.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 2.1 km SEBakery — 2.8 km EGP — 3.2 km EPharmacy — 6.4 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 (Leuc): 2.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Rouffiac-d'Aude): 2.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Leuc): 3.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Carcassonne): 6.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Preixan): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 37.6

Days at or below 0 °C 19.9

Muggy days a summer 9.7

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 38 days a year at or above 30 °C and 20 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the CARCASSONNE weather station, 7.8 km away at 128 m; the village itself is at 171 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at CARCASSONNE, 7.8 km away at 128 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 719 mm of rain a year, spread over 98 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at MONTCLAR, 3.4 km away at 220 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 — 11299/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11299/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11299/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11299/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11201
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11325
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11069
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11299
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
Louvemont	52	635 km N	694	27.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 55 % · humidity 43 %
Salmbach	67	787 km NE	585	30.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 65 % · humidity 50 %
Villiers-le-Sec	52	593 km N	710	33.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 14 % · humidity 36 %
Viterne	54	671 km NE	738	30.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 53 % · humidity 36 %
Vernéville	57	726 km N	715	34.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 46 % · humidity 29 %
La Grandville	08	762 km N	753	29.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 43 % · humidity 29 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Villiers-le-Sec	52	593 km N	710	33.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 14 % · humidity 36 %
Louvemont	52	635 km N	694	27.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 55 % · humidity 43 %
Viterne	54	671 km NE	738	30.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 53 % · humidity 36 %
Vernéville	57	726 km N	715	34.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 46 % · humidity 29 %
La Grandville	08	762 km N	753	29.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 43 % · humidity 29 %
Salmbach	67	787 km NE	585	30.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 65 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Preixan'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
Couffoulens	11	2.0 km NE	533	22.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Douzens	11	26 km E	784	39.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Aumes	34	102 km E	498	27.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Caux-et-Sauzens	11	9.2 km N	1,025	34.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Lagupie	47	235 km NW	680	30.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Cuzorn	47	189 km NW	845	26.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

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