Saint-Polycarpe

Aude · CC du Limouxin · INSEE 11364

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

No daily shops 17.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 58 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Polycarpe (INSEE 11364) is in Aude (11), part of CC du Limouxin. Population 169 (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 17.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 58 % of the 14,935 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.35	10	3.45
Housing mix	0.74	5	3.68

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE SAINT POLYCARPE AVENUE DU MAUZAC 11300 SAINT POLYCARPE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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)	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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE SAINT POLYCARPE AVENUE DU MAUZAC 11300 SAINT POLYCARPE	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: 158 peak 1990: 200 2023: 169 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 147 (2012) → 169 (2023): 15 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 200 (1990) → 169 (2023): -15.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 121, of which 13.2 % second homes and 19.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 4.5 km WFood shop — 5.0 km WGP — 5.6 km SWBakery — 5.7 km WPharmacy — 5.8 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 (Limoux): 5.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Limoux): 5 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Alet-les-Bains): 5.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Limoux): 5.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Cournanel): 4.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 43.7

Days at or below 0 °C 38.2

Muggy days a summer 9.8

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 44 days a year at or above 30 °C and 38 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LIMOUX weather station, 7.2 km away at 230 m; the village itself is at 229 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at VILLARDEBELLE_SAPC, 9.5 km away at 593 m, over 11 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 364 m above 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 646 mm of rain a year, spread over 93 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LIMOUX, 7.2 km away at 230 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 — 11364/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11364/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11364/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11364/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11206
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11008
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11105
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-Michel-de-Veisse	23	324 km N	165	18.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 18 % · humidity 36 %
Limoise	03	408 km N	175	21.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 68 % · humidity 36 %
Jaure	24	264 km NW	178	24.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 84 % · humidity 64 %
La Celle-Condé	18	417 km N	189	19.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 73 % · humidity 79 %
Sainte-Agathe	63	327 km N	171	18.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 35 % · humidity 29 %
La Chomette	43	261 km N	143	20.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 16 % · humidity 29 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Chomette	43	261 km N	143	20.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 16 % · humidity 29 %
Jaure	24	264 km NW	178	24.6	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 84 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Michel-de-Veisse	23	324 km N	165	18.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 18 % · humidity 36 %
Sainte-Agathe	63	327 km N	171	18.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 35 % · humidity 29 %
Limoise	03	408 km N	175	21.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 68 % · humidity 36 %
La Celle-Condé	18	417 km N	189	19.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 73 % · humidity 79 %

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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-Polycarpe'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
Belleserre	81	53 km N	171	16.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Larroque-Saint-Sernin	32	171 km NW	162	8.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Léger	47	211 km NW	177	12.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Monheurt	47	215 km NW	190	22.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-le-Redon	46	194 km NW	195	14.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Cassignas	47	185 km NW	127	10.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

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