Salles-sur-l'Hers

Aude · CC Castelnaudary Lauragais Audois · INSEE 11371

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

Served 66.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 99 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Salles-sur-l'Hers (INSEE 11371) is in Aude (11), part of CC Castelnaudary Lauragais Audois. Population 770 (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 66.1/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 99 % of the 15,896 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	0.71	25	17.74
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.63	10	6.32
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.79	5	3.96

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 1 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3,4]

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

2 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CHRISTOPHE MORAINE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE SALLES SUR L'HERS). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE DE SALLES SUR L'HERS). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (BO'TIF · NINE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (MAIRIE). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Bakery (boulangerie).

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	PROXI	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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	2		INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE ROSA PARKS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	CHRISTOPHE MORAINE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE SALLES SUR L'HERS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE DE SALLES SUR L'HERS	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	2	BO'TIF · NINE COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	1	MAIRIE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 538 2023: 770 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 655 (2012) → 770 (2023): 17.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 476 (1990) → 770 (2023): 61.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 450, of which 10.4 % second homes and 10.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Bakery — 7.9 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 (Labastide-d'Anjou): 7.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Salles-sur-l'Hers): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Salles-sur-l'Hers): 0.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Salles-sur-l'Hers): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Salles-sur-l'Hers): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

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 7.5

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. ^[10]

Measured at the MONTFERRAND weather station, 7.2 km away at 190 m; the village itself is at 231 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 8 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at CASTELNAUDARY, 13.1 km away at 160 m, over 28 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 71 m below 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 738 mm of rain a year, spread over 101 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at SALLES-SUR-L'HERS, 0.4 km away at 210 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 — 11371/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11371/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11371/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11371/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11178
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11371
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
Neuvy-Sautour	89	550 km N	873	55.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 66 % · humidity 57 %
Cerisy-la-Salle	50	680 km N	1,005	42.1	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 86 % · humidity 50 %
Roncey	50	677 km N	770	63.5	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 86 % · humidity 50 %
Carrouges	61	605 km N	623	64.2	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 36 % · winter 73 %
Lanuéjouls	12	129 km N	779	76.9	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 30 % · humidity 57 %
Poulaines	36	429 km N	816	47.5	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 72 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Lanuéjouls	12	129 km N	779	76.9	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 30 % · humidity 57 %
Poulaines	36	429 km N	816	47.5	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 72 % · humidity 57 %
Neuvy-Sautour	89	550 km N	873	55.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 66 % · humidity 57 %
Carrouges	61	605 km N	623	64.2	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 36 % · winter 73 %
Roncey	50	677 km N	770	63.5	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 86 % · humidity 50 %
Cerisy-la-Salle	50	680 km N	1,005	42.1	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 86 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Salles-sur-l'Hers'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
Grignols	33	191 km NW	1,216	58.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Prayssas	47	151 km NW	993	66.1	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Gauriac	33	275 km NW	759	57.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Sulpice-de-Faleyrens	33	236 km NW	1,344	51.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Ars	16	313 km NW	686	37.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Arengosse	40	222 km W	711	50	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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