Saint-Denis

Aude · CC de la Montagne Noire · INSEE 11339

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

Partly served 40.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 83 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Denis (INSEE 11339) is in Aude (11), part of CC de la Montagne Noire. Population 523 (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 40.1/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 83 % of the 17,664 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	0.21	25	5.27
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	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.6	5	3.01

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LA LOCOMOTIVE). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE SAINT-DENIS). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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)	1	LA LOCOMOTIVE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	SAINT DENIS AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE SAINT-DENIS	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: 292 2023: 523 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 512 (2012) → 523 (2023): 2.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 313 (1990) → 523 (2023): 67.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 362, of which 19.9 % second homes and 8.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 4.2 km WGP — 4.2 km WPharmacy — 4.2 km W 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 (Saissac): 4.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Denis): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saissac): 4.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saissac): 4.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Denis): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 8.2

Days at or below 0 °C 53.2

Muggy days a summer 2.2

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 8 days a year at or above 30 °C and 53 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the SAISSAC weather station, 5.8 km away at 630 m; the village itself is at 530 m. ^[10]

The village sits 100 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at LES MARTYS, 7.9 km away at 760 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 230 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 972 mm of rain a year, spread over 107 days — about 9.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CUXAC-CABARDES, 4.3 km away at 499 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 — 11339/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11339/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11339/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11339/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11367
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11339
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
Saint-Hilaire	03	354 km N	503	32.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 86 %
Passavant-la-Rochère	70	592 km NE	524	30.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Eynesse	33	232 km NW	581	36.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 33 % · winter 91 %
Escragnolles	06	370 km E	622	40.6	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 35 % · humidity 86 %
Landreville	10	552 km N	395	31.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Vassols	84	248 km E	499	47.1	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Eynesse	33	232 km NW	581	36.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 33 % · winter 91 %
Saint-Pierre-de-Vassols	84	248 km E	499	47.1	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Hilaire	03	354 km N	503	32.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 77 % · winter 86 %
Escragnolles	06	370 km E	622	40.6	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 35 % · humidity 86 %
Landreville	10	552 km N	395	31.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Passavant-la-Rochère	70	592 km NE	524	30.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Saint-Denis'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
Vêtre-sur-Anzon	42	301 km NE	564	25.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Laons	28	600 km N	648	38.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Nécy	61	634 km N	533	35.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Barbery	60	653 km N	528	31	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Fontiers-Cabardès	11	2.5 km NE	476	44.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Germain-de-Joux	01	419 km NE	507	37	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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