Villeneuve-la-Comptal

Aude · CC Castelnaudary Lauragais Audois · INSEE 11430

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

Few services 31/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 21 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Villeneuve-la-Comptal (INSEE 11430) is in Aude (11), part of CC Castelnaudary Lauragais Audois. Population 1,448 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[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 31/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 21 % of the 11,907 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.88	10	8.75
Housing mix	0.91	5	4.53

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3]

1 × Restaurant (LA PETITE FRINGALE 11). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (VILLENEUVE LA COMPTAL AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE DE VILLENEUVE LA COMPTAL). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (LUDI'COIFF). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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	1	LA PETITE FRINGALE 11	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	VILLENEUVE LA COMPTAL AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE DE VILLENEUVE LA COMPTAL	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	LUDI'COIFF	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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: 345 2023: 1,448 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,236 (2012) → 1,448 (2023): 17.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,053 (1990) → 1,448 (2023): 37.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 638, of which 4.7 % second homes and 2.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.5 km SEFood shop — 3.1 km NEGP — 3.8 km NEPharmacy — 3.9 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 (Fendeille): 2.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Castelnaudary): 3.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Castelnaudary): 3.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Castelnaudary): 3.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Villeneuve-la-Comptal): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 35.7

Days at or below 0 °C 22

Muggy days a summer 9.5

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 36 days a year at or above 30 °C and 22 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CASTELNAUDARY weather station, 3.1 km away at 160 m; the village itself is at 206 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 10 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at CASTELNAUDARY, 3.1 km away at 160 m, over 28 summers. ^[11]

An average of 684 mm of rain a year, spread over 96 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CASTELNAUDARY, 3.1 km away at 160 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 — 11430/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11430/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11430/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 11430/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11138
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11076
INSEE BPE 2025 — 11430
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
Artigueloutan	64	176 km W	1,105	32.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 65 % · humidity 71 %
Distroff	57	750 km NE	1,828	30.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 41 % · winter 65 %
Marsat	63	302 km N	1,426	27.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 46 % · humidity 36 %
Peillonnex	74	473 km NE	1,381	31.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 0 % · humidity 29 %
Les Chères	69	366 km NE	1,503	40.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Bergholtz	68	661 km NE	1,039	28.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 45 % · humidity 36 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Artigueloutan	64	176 km W	1,105	32.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 65 % · humidity 71 %
Marsat	63	302 km N	1,426	27.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 46 % · humidity 36 %
Les Chères	69	366 km NE	1,503	40.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 72 % · humidity 86 %
Peillonnex	74	473 km NE	1,381	31.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 0 % · humidity 29 %
Bergholtz	68	661 km NE	1,039	28.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 45 % · humidity 36 %
Distroff	57	750 km NE	1,828	30.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 41 % · winter 65 %

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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 Villeneuve-la-Comptal'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
Cazilhac	11	38 km E	1,664	46.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Villate	31	48 km NW	1,233	29.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Féliu-d'Amont	66	94 km SE	1,292	28.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Pexiora	11	9.4 km E	1,266	28.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Montlaur	31	36 km NW	1,791	39	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Auzielle	31	40 km NW	1,635	34.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %

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