Rieux-Minervois

Aude · CA Carcassonne Agglo · INSEE 11315

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

Partly served 45.2/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 57 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Rieux-Minervois (INSEE 11315) is in Aude (11), part of CA Carcassonne Agglo. Population 1,957 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 45.2/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 57 % of the 9,774 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.39	10	3.93
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.55	10	5.48
Housing mix	0.79	5	3.93

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 3 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 2 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) (LE FOURNIL D'EMILE). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LE FAMILIAL). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LO BEL POLET). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (CAFE DU COMMERCE). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE LOS CASCAMELS). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE). ^[3]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JEAN-LUC PUEL, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (SELURL CAVAILHES J S). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE RIEUX-MINERVOIS). ^[3]

2 × Bank (CAISSE EPARGNE PREVOYANCE LANGUEDOC ROUSSILLON · BANQUE POPULAIRE DU SUD). ^[3]

6 × Hairdresser (COIFFURE BRIGITTE · MIRAILLES DANIELE · MG COIFFURE · LE COMPTOIR DU CISEAU · BARB'HAIR OC). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 3 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket. ^[4,3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LE FOURNIL D'EMILE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	LE FAMILIAL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Restaurant	1	LO BEL POLET	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 7 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	CAFE DU COMMERCE	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE LOS CASCAMELS	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	JEAN-LUC PUEL, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	SELURL CAVAILHES J S	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	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE RIEUX-MINERVOIS	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	2	CAISSE EPARGNE PREVOYANCE LANGUEDOC ROUSSILLON · BANQUE POPULAIRE DU SUD	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Hairdresser	6	COIFFURE BRIGITTE · MIRAILLES DANIELE · MG COIFFURE · LE COMPTOIR DU CISEAU · BARB'HAIR OC	INSEE BPE 6 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [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: 2,048 peak 1999: 2,075 2023: 1,957 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,021 (2012) → 1,957 (2023): -3.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,868 (1990) → 1,957 (2023): 4.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,154, of which 10.7 % second homes and 7.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Rieux-Minervois): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Rieux-Minervois): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Rieux-Minervois): 0.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Rieux-Minervois): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Rieux-Minervois): 0.2 km to the north-west (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 9.9

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. ^[9]

Measured at the LAURE-MINERVOIS weather station, 5.8 km away at 80 m; the village itself is at 117 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 10 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at CAUNES-MINERVOIS, 10.3 km away at 371 m, over 19 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 254 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 661 mm of rain a year, spread over 76 days — about 8.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at LAURE-MINERVOIS, 5.8 km away at 80 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11315/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11315/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11315/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11315/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11315
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
Chilleurs-aux-Bois	45	534 km N	2,084	52.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 44 % · winter 53 %
Saint-André-d'Apchon	42	324 km N	1,966	50.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 55 % · humidity 79 %
Vinça	66	71 km S	2,260	51.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 65 % · humidity 64 %
Tavel	30	188 km NE	2,083	56.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 76 % · humidity 64 %
Dambach-la-Ville	67	674 km NE	2,165	58.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 46 % · humidity 43 %
Longueil-Sainte-Marie	60	676 km N	1,895	56.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 70 % · humidity 36 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Vinça	66	71 km S	2,260	51.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 65 % · humidity 64 %
Tavel	30	188 km NE	2,083	56.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 76 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-André-d'Apchon	42	324 km N	1,966	50.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 36 % · winter 55 % · humidity 79 %
Chilleurs-aux-Bois	45	534 km N	2,084	52.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 44 % · winter 53 %
Dambach-la-Ville	67	674 km NE	2,165	58.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 46 % · humidity 43 %
Longueil-Sainte-Marie	60	676 km N	1,895	56.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 70 % · humidity 36 %

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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 Rieux-Minervois'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
Lézignan-la-Cèbe	34	73 km E	1,580	47.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Chinian	34	33 km NE	1,811	64.3	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Pinet	34	76 km E	2,049	48.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Mouriès	13	190 km E	3,527	49.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Conques-sur-Orbiel	11	15 km W	2,523	46.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Laurens	34	56 km NE	1,815	56.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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