Saint-Paulet

Aude · CC Castelnaudary Lauragais Audois · INSEE 11362

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

Few services 31.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 90 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Paulet (INSEE 11362) is in Aude (11), part of CC Castelnaudary Lauragais Audois. Population 205 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[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 31.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 90 % of the 16,110 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	0.29	25	7.21
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.96	10	9.64
Housing mix	0.69	5	3.45

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 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 a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LO BON PAN). ^[3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	LO BON PAN	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	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: 170 2023: 205 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 182 (2012) → 205 (2023): 12.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 140 (1990) → 205 (2023): 46.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 116, of which 15.5 % second homes and 9.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 1.5 km SGP — 4.8 km NFood shop — 4.9 km NPharmacy — 11.2 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 (Saint-Paulet): 1.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Félix-Lauragais): 4.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Félix-Lauragais): 4.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Castelnaudary): 11.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Saint-Paulet): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

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 7.2

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 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, 7.4 km away at 190 m; the village itself is at 233 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 7 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at CASTELNAUDARY, 12.6 km away at 160 m, over 28 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 73 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[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, 7.4 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 — 11362/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11362/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11362/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11362/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11362
INSEE BPE 2025 — 31478
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11076
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
Ferrensac	47	170 km NW	205	18.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 95 %
Saint-Prix-lès-Arnay	21	461 km NE	203	14.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 42 % · humidity 50 %
Levis	89	486 km N	223	19	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 86 % · humidity 64 %
Lailly	89	553 km N	199	17.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 49 % · humidity 71 %
Puycalvel	81	35 km NE	217	18.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Pressigny	79	402 km N	191	17.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 74 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Puycalvel	81	35 km NE	217	18.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Ferrensac	47	170 km NW	205	18.3	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 72 % · winter 95 %
Pressigny	79	402 km N	191	17.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 74 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Prix-lès-Arnay	21	461 km NE	203	14.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 42 % · humidity 50 %
Levis	89	486 km N	223	19	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 86 % · humidity 64 %
Lailly	89	553 km N	199	17.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 49 % · humidity 71 %

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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-Paulet'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
Antagnac	47	183 km NW	223	20.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Marions	33	192 km NW	206	13.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Baleyssagues	47	198 km NW	188	15.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Rimons	33	205 km NW	198	10.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Moulinet	47	163 km NW	195	8.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Estipouy	32	122 km W	204	14.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

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