Saint-Michel-de-Lanès

Aude · CC Castelnaudary Lauragais Audois · INSEE 11359

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

Partly served 42.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 88 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Michel-de-Lanès (INSEE 11359) is in Aude (11), part of CC Castelnaudary Lauragais Audois. Population 484 (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 42.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 88 % of the 17,855 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	0.75	20	14.97
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.9	5	4.5

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (L'EPICERIE DE SAINT MICHEL). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (MAGALETTE · LES MARRONNIERS). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	L'EPICERIE DE SAINT MICHEL	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	2	MAGALETTE · LES MARRONNIERS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	SAINT MICHEL DE LANES 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	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: 302 2023: 484 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 381 (2012) → 484 (2023): 27 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 232 (1990) → 484 (2023): 108.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 259, of which 5 % second homes and 10.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop Primary school — 3.6 km WGP — 4.1 km SEBakery — 4.2 km NWPharmacy — 4.3 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 (Lagarde): 4.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Michel-de-Lanès): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Salles-sur-l'Hers): 4.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Salles-sur-l'Hers): 4.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Caignac): 3.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

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. ^[12]

Measured at the MONTFERRAND weather station, 6.2 km away at 190 m; the village itself is at 199 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at CASTELNAUDARY, 15.8 km away at 160 m, over 28 summers. ^[12]

An average of 738 mm of rain a year, spread over 101 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at SALLES-SUR-L'HERS, 4 km away at 210 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 — 11359/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11359/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11359/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11359/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 31262
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11359
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11371
INSEE BPE 2025 — 31099
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
Wisembach	88	687 km NE	427	34.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 12 % · humidity 36 %
Moriville	88	665 km NE	443	30	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 31 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche	57	763 km NE	445	23.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 11 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Sauvant	17	323 km NW	515	27.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %
Urbès	68	648 km NE	427	28.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 34 % · humidity 36 %
Hannonville-sous-les-Côtes	55	703 km NE	556	44.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 51 % · humidity 36 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Sauvant	17	323 km NW	515	27.7	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %
Urbès	68	648 km NE	427	28.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 34 % · humidity 36 %
Moriville	88	665 km NE	443	30	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 31 % · humidity 36 %
Wisembach	88	687 km NE	427	34.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 12 % · humidity 36 %
Hannonville-sous-les-Côtes	55	703 km NE	556	44.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 51 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Louis-lès-Bitche	57	763 km NE	445	23.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 11 % · 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 Saint-Michel-de-Lanès'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
Camiran	33	206 km NW	419	37.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Saugon	33	274 km NW	504	38.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Germé	32	158 km W	515	29.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Varès	47	166 km NW	655	38.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Cambernard	31	49 km W	499	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
L'Isle-de-Noé	32	112 km W	529	46	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %

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