Puichéric

Aude · CA Carcassonne Agglo · INSEE 11301

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

Partly served 49.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 80 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Puichéric (INSEE 11301) is in Aude (11), part of CA Carcassonne Agglo. Population 1,198 (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/11301-puicheric

Vitality score

Vitality score 49.8/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 80 % of the 13,212 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	0.47	25	11.83
Social	0.59	20	11.7
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.2	10	1.97
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.68	10	6.76
Housing mix	0.83	5	4.16

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 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 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (SARL STOICA MARIANA). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (MAS MODESTE). ^[3]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (VIVAL · LP11 DISTRIBUTION). ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (CHEZ MODESTE · L'HOR-LOGE · MONA DONA). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

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

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

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

2 × Hairdresser (L'AUDACIEUSE). ^[3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	SARL STOICA MARIANA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	MAS MODESTE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	VIVAL · LP11 DISTRIBUTION	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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	3	CHEZ MODESTE · L'HOR-LOGE · MONA DONA	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE TOLSA	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	PUICHERIC AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE PUICHÉRIC	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	L'AUDACIEUSE	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: 1,023 2023: 1,198 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,100 (2012) → 1,198 (2023): 8.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,019 (1990) → 1,198 (2023): 17.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 717, of which 8.4 % second homes and 15.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school, Pharmacy Bakery — 0.5 km SWGP — 3.4 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 (Puichéric): 0.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Puichéric): 0.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (La Redorte): 3.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Puichéric): 0.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Puichéric): 0.3 km to the south (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, 9.9 km away at 80 m; the village itself is at 58 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at LEZIGNAN-CORBIERES, 10.2 km away at 60 m, over 29 summers. ^[10]

An average of 700 mm of rain a year, spread over 80 days — about 8.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CAPENDU, 7.6 km away at 79 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 — 11301/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11301/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11301/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11301/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11301
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11190
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
Ligny-le-Ribault	45	500 km N	1,252	45.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 38 % · winter 41 %
Saint-Clar	32	167 km NW	1,062	56.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 99 % · humidity 79 %
Vigny	95	653 km N	1,137	50.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 43 % · humidity 21 %
Saint-Julien-en-Saint-Alban	07	237 km NE	1,465	50.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 78 % · humidity 36 %
La Chambre	73	376 km NE	1,221	58.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 22 % · humidity 14 %
Lamagistère	82	176 km NW	1,218	47.3	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 78 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Clar	32	167 km NW	1,062	56.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 99 % · humidity 79 %
Lamagistère	82	176 km NW	1,218	47.3	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 78 %
Saint-Julien-en-Saint-Alban	07	237 km NE	1,465	50.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 78 % · humidity 36 %
La Chambre	73	376 km NE	1,221	58.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 22 % · humidity 14 %
Ligny-le-Ribault	45	500 km N	1,252	45.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 38 % · winter 41 %
Vigny	95	653 km N	1,137	50.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 43 % · humidity 21 %

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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 Puichéric'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
Mercuès	46	173 km NW	1,122	58.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Pépieux	11	8.9 km NE	1,118	43.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Lézignan-la-Cèbe	34	72 km NE	1,580	47.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Ornaisons	11	18 km E	1,161	45.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Fabrezan	11	12 km SE	1,306	51.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Ferrals-les-Corbières	11	12 km SE	1,275	45.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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