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La Tourette-Cabardès

Aude · CC de la Montagne Noire · INSEE 11391

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 3.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 11 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

La Tourette-Cabardès (INSEE 11391) is in Aude (11), part of CC de la Montagne Noire. Population 20 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/11391-la-tourette-cabardes

Vitality score

Vitality score 3.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 11 % of the 925 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.3103
Housing mix050

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 36 2023: 20 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 21 (2012) → 20 (2023): -4.8 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 25 (1990) → 20 (2023): -20 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 33, of which 51.5 % second homes and 12.1 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmPrimary school — 2.0 km W (Caudebronde)Food shop — 3.7 km SE (Mas-Cabardès)GP — 4.1 km W (Cuxac-Cabardès)Bakery — 4.5 km W (Cuxac-Cabardès)Pharmacy — 4.5 km W (Cuxac-Cabardès)
Primary school — 2.0 km WFood shop — 3.7 km SEGP — 4.1 km WBakery — 4.5 km WPharmacy — 4.5 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 (Cuxac-Cabardès): 4.5 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Mas-Cabardès): 3.7 km to the south-east (straight line). [9]

GP (Cuxac-Cabardès): 4.1 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Cuxac-Cabardès): 4.5 km to the west (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Caudebronde): 2 km to the west (straight line). [10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 11 days a year at or above 30 °C and 37 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the LES MARTYS weather station, 4.6 km away at 760 m; the village itself is at 478 m. [11]

The village sits 282 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 3 days a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at LES MARTYS, 4.6 km away at 760 m, over 30 summers. [11]

That station sits 282 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 1,313 mm of rain a year, spread over 125 days — about 10.5 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at LES MARTYS, 4.6 km away at 760 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11391/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11391/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11391/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11391/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 11115
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 11222
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 11079
  11. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Villefranche-le-Château26272 km E205.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Piedipartino2B583 km E1911.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 79 %
Rimon-et-Savel26277 km NE224.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Chérizet71391 km NE180No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Campi2B591 km E191.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 53 % · humidity 7 %
Piazzali2B588 km E1911.8No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 28 % · winter 97 % · humidity 7 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Villefranche-le-Château26272 km E205.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Rimon-et-Savel26277 km NE224.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Chérizet71391 km NE180No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Piedipartino2B583 km E1911.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 79 %
Piazzali2B588 km E1911.8No daily shopsWarmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 28 % · winter 97 % · humidity 7 %
Campi2B591 km E191.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 53 % · humidity 7 %

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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 La Tourette-Cabardès'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Mausoléo2B551 km E2411.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Vallica2B555 km E292.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Belfort-sur-Rebenty1166 km S251.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Valmigère1145 km S289.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Terroles1144 km S142.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Véraza1144 km S353.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %