Sainte-Valière

Aude · CA Le Grand Narbonne · INSEE 11366

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

Few services 25.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 42 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sainte-Valière (INSEE 11366) is in Aude (11), part of CA Le Grand Narbonne. Population 534 (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 25.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 42 % of the 17,599 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.86	10	8.62
Housing mix	0.66	5	3.32

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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 1 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (SAINTE VALIERE RP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE SAINTE-VALIÈRE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (SAM'COIFF). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, 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)	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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE 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	SAINTE VALIERE RP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE SAINTE-VALIÈRE	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	1	SAM'COIFF	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 377 peak 2017: 563 2023: 534 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 557 (2012) → 534 (2023): -4.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 392 (1990) → 534 (2023): 36.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 363, of which 16.8 % second homes and 11 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 2.4 km SWGP — 2.4 km EBakery — 2.6 km EPharmacy — 5.0 km NE 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 (Ginestas): 2.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Paraza): 2.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Ginestas): 2.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Bize-Minervois): 5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Sainte-Valière): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 62.9▸

Days at or below 0 °C 21.8

Muggy days a summer 11.8▸

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 63 days a year at or above 30 °C and 22 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the ARGELIERS weather station, 6.9 km away at 31 m; the village itself is at 88 m. ^[12]

The village sits 57 m above 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. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at LEZIGNAN-CORBIERES, 14.4 km away at 60 m, over 29 summers. ^[12]

An average of 587 mm of rain a year, spread over 62 days — about 9.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ARGELIERS, 6.9 km away at 31 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 — 11366/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11366/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11366/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11366/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11164
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11273
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11041
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11366
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
Sonnac	12	154 km N	519	25.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 31 % · winter 49 %
Écoche	42	341 km N	525	25.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 18 % · humidity 21 %
Saint-Cyr-des-Gâts	85	469 km NW	533	22.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 82 % · humidity 29 %
Saint-Sernin-du-Plain	71	426 km N	613	22.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 36 % · humidity 14 %
Commensacq	40	312 km W	440	24.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 74 % · humidity 71 %
Chanay	01	383 km NE	574	26.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 14 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sonnac	12	154 km N	519	25.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 31 % · winter 49 %
Commensacq	40	312 km W	440	24.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 74 % · humidity 71 %
Écoche	42	341 km N	525	25.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 18 % · humidity 21 %
Chanay	01	383 km NE	574	26.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 14 %
Saint-Sernin-du-Plain	71	426 km N	613	22.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 36 % · humidity 14 %
Saint-Cyr-des-Gâts	85	469 km NW	533	22.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 82 % · humidity 29 %

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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 Sainte-Valière'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
Saint-Étienne-des-Sorts	30	181 km NE	545	37.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Pouzols-Minervois	11	2.0 km NW	599	40.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Paraza	11	2.6 km S	700	43.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Codolet	30	177 km NE	597	38.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Mailhac	11	3.5 km N	595	47.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Bonnet-du-Gard	30	155 km NE	798	37.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %

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