Villardonnel

Aude · CC de la Montagne Noire · INSEE 11413

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

Few services 30.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 60 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Villardonnel (INSEE 11413) is in Aude (11), part of CC de la Montagne Noire. Population 515 (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/11413-villardonnel

Vitality score

Vitality score 30.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 60 % of the 17,741 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	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.91	10	9.11
Housing mix	0.75	5	3.75

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 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”.

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

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

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

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[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	FAMILLE CARRIE	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	VILLARDONNEL AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 317 peak 2007: 530 2023: 515 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 507 (2012) → 515 (2023): 1.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 365 (1990) → 515 (2023): 41.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 295, of which 12.5 % second homes and 5.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 4.4 km NWBakery — 4.5 km NWPharmacy — 4.6 km NW 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 north-west (straight line). ^[8]

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

GP (Cuxac-Cabardès): 4.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Cuxac-Cabardès): 4.6 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Villardonnel): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 14.6

Days at or below 0 °C 30.5

Muggy days a summer 4.1

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 15 days a year at or above 30 °C and 31 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LES MARTYS weather station, 8.3 km away at 760 m; the village itself is at 364 m. ^[10]

The village sits 396 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at LES MARTYS, 8.3 km away at 760 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 396 m above 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 972 mm of rain a year, spread over 107 days — about 9.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CUXAC-CABARDES, 3.7 km away at 499 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 — 11413/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11413/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11413/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11413/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11115
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11413
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
Tribehou	50	708 km N	525	26.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 88 %
Saint-Salvy-de-la-Balme	81	31 km N	538	24.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Villemurlin	45	484 km N	536	27.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 42 % · humidity 86 %
Albine	81	23 km NE	512	24.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Lerm-et-Musset	33	227 km NW	504	30.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Avoise	72	540 km N	594	28.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 88 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Albine	81	23 km NE	512	24.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 82 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Salvy-de-la-Balme	81	31 km N	538	24.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Lerm-et-Musset	33	227 km NW	504	30.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Villemurlin	45	484 km N	536	27.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 42 % · humidity 86 %
Avoise	72	540 km N	594	28.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 88 %
Tribehou	50	708 km N	525	26.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 88 %

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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 Villardonnel'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
Théhillac	56	584 km NW	611	21.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Chenevelles	86	399 km N	435	28.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Autrèche	37	477 km N	419	23	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Beaulieu-sur-Oudon	53	579 km NW	483	31.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Mesves-sur-Loire	58	438 km N	662	31	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Cyr-des-Gâts	85	439 km NW	533	22.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %

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