Salsigne

Aude · CC de la Montagne Noire · INSEE 11372

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

Few services 28.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 63 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Salsigne (INSEE 11372) is in Aude (11), part of CC de la Montagne Noire. Population 400 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/11372-salsigne

Vitality score

Vitality score 28.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 63 % of the 18,033 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.58	10	5.75
Housing mix	0.79	5	3.94

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 1 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”.

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (SALSIGNE AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE SALSIGNE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), 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)	1		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	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE 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	SALSIGNE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE SALSIGNE	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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 689 2023: 400 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 389 (2012) → 400 (2023): 2.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 372 (1990) → 400 (2023): 7.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 264, of which 10.6 % second homes and 18.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 1.9 km EPharmacy — 6.8 km SGP — 7.2 km S 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 (Lastours): 1.9 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Salsigne): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Villegailhenc): 7.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Villegailhenc): 6.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Salsigne): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 30.6

Days at or below 0 °C 14.4▸

Muggy days a summer 7.3

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 31 days a year at or above 30 °C and 14 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CAUNES-MINERVOIS weather station, 9.9 km away at 371 m; the village itself is at 289 m. ^[11]

The village sits 82 m below 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. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at CAUNES-MINERVOIS, 9.9 km away at 371 m, over 19 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 82 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 694 mm of rain a year, spread over 84 days — about 8.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CONQUES-SUR-ORBIEL, 6.5 km away at 120 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 — 11372/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11372/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11372/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11372/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11194
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11372
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11425
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
Bouligney	70	591 km NE	401	28.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 1 % · humidity 64 %
Paudy	36	414 km N	437	27.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 57 % · humidity 57 %
Villequiers	18	417 km N	437	27.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 45 % · humidity 71 %
Chenevelles	86	401 km N	435	28.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 70 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Léopardin-d'Augy	03	378 km N	354	28.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 51 % · humidity 57 %
Chantrans	25	509 km NE	381	31.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 11 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Léopardin-d'Augy	03	378 km N	354	28.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 51 % · humidity 57 %
Chenevelles	86	401 km N	435	28.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 70 % · humidity 71 %
Paudy	36	414 km N	437	27.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 57 % · humidity 57 %
Villequiers	18	417 km N	437	27.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 45 % · humidity 71 %
Chantrans	25	509 km NE	381	31.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 11 % · humidity 50 %
Bouligney	70	591 km NE	401	28.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 1 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Salsigne'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
Labécède-Lauragais	11	29 km W	420	31.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Aragon	11	5.2 km SW	487	35.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Oms	66	92 km S	364	37.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Manzac-sur-Vern	24	241 km NW	535	40	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Aubas	24	216 km NW	614	23.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Issel	11	30 km W	483	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

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