Ricaud

Aude · CC Castelnaudary Lauragais Audois · INSEE 11313

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 15.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 23 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ricaud (INSEE 11313) is in Aude (11), part of CC Castelnaudary Lauragais Audois. Population 331 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[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 15.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 23 % of the 18,007 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	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.85	10	8.51
Housing mix	0.91	5	4.57

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. ^[3,4]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	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	0	INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0	INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0	INSEE BPE 0 [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	0	INSEE BPE 0 [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	1	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 185 2023: 331 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 307 (2012) → 331 (2023): 7.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 245 (1990) → 331 (2023): 35.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 163, of which 4.3 % second homes and 7.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.2 km EBakery — 2.4 km SEGP — 3.3 km WFood shop — 3.4 km WPharmacy — 5.3 km SE 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 (Castelnaudary): 2.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Labastide-d'Anjou): 3.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Labastide-d'Anjou): 3.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Castelnaudary): 5.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Souilhanels): 2.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 30.1

Days at or below 0 °C 29.6

Muggy days a summer 9.5

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 30 days a year at or above 30 °C and 30 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the MONTFERRAND weather station, 5.6 km away at 190 m; the village itself is at 184 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 10 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at CASTELNAUDARY, 6.6 km away at 160 m, over 28 summers. ^[11]

An average of 744 mm of rain a year, spread over 101 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MONTFERRAND, 5.6 km away at 190 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11313/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11313/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11313/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11313/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11076
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11178
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11382
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
Fulleren	68	625 km NE	331	12.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 53 % · humidity 43 %
Vaudemange	51	664 km N	333	17.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 92 % · humidity 43 %
Ueberstrass	68	622 km NE	333	12	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 53 % · humidity 43 %
Romain	51	681 km N	332	12.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 84 % · humidity 36 %
Sainte-Eusoye	60	693 km N	331	17.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 54 % · humidity 29 %
Bagneux	03	382 km N	329	13.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 70 % · humidity 43 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bagneux	03	382 km N	329	13.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 70 % · humidity 43 %
Ueberstrass	68	622 km NE	333	12	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 53 % · humidity 43 %
Fulleren	68	625 km NE	331	12.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 53 % · humidity 43 %
Vaudemange	51	664 km N	333	17.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 92 % · humidity 43 %
Romain	51	681 km N	332	12.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 84 % · humidity 36 %
Sainte-Eusoye	60	693 km N	331	17.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 54 % · 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 Ricaud'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-Vivien-de-Blaye	33	274 km NW	358	13.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Gabarnac	33	223 km NW	363	15	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Comigne	11	59 km E	328	16.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Monprimblanc	33	224 km NW	276	11.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Anhaux	64	258 km W	389	13.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Martin	32	124 km W	434	13.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %

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