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Beauchalot

Haute-Garonne · CC Cagire Garonne Salat · INSEE 31050

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

Partly served 44.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 85 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Beauchalot (INSEE 31050) is in Haute-Garonne (31), part of CC Cagire Garonne Salat. Population 662 (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/31050-beauchalot

Vitality score

Vitality score 44.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 85 % of the 16,666 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 food0.422510.54
Social0.32206.32
Education0.63106.32
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend11010
Housing mix0.9554.74

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6
Eating out 1 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 1 of 3
Health 0 of 4
Public services 0 of 1
Culture 0 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) (CROISSANT DE LUNE). [3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE MULTISERVICES MAISON JACQUOT). [3,4]

1 × Restaurant (SARL LE CACTUS). [3,4]

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

2 × Hairdresser (L'ATELIER DE MAE). [3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)1CROISSANT DE LUNEINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)1BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE MULTISERVICES MAISON JACQUOTINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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]
Restaurant1SARL LE CACTUSINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)1ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUEINSEE BPE 1 [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]
Hairdresser2L'ATELIER DE MAEINSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 315 2023: 662 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 487 (2012) → 662 (2023): 35.9 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 380 (1990) → 662 (2023): 74.2 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 265, of which 2.6 % second homes and 6.8 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPharmacy — 6.2 km NE (Saint-Martory)GP — 7.1 km E (Salies-du-Salat)
In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school Pharmacy — 6.2 km NEGP — 7.1 km E 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 (Beauchalot): 0.4 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Beauchalot): 0.4 km to the west (straight line). [8]

GP (Salies-du-Salat): 7.1 km to the east (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Martory): 6.2 km to the north-east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Beauchalot): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

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 30 days a year at or above 30 °C and 56 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the PALAMINY weather station, 17.9 km away at 243 m; the village itself is at 316 m. [11]

The village sits 73 m above 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 5 days a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at PALAMINY, 17.9 km away at 243 m, over 23 summers. [11]

That station sits 73 m below 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 1,190 mm of rain a year, spread over 129 days — about 9.2 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at ARBAS, 12.7 km away at 402 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 — 31050/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 31050/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 31050/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 31050/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 31050
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 31523
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 31503
  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
Chuyer42401 km NE75946.8Partly servedCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 99 % · humidity 71 %
Montceaux-lès-Meaux77669 km N66935.6Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %
La Chapelle-Saint-Martin-en-Plaine41514 km N68734.2Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 91 % · humidity 71 %
La Chapelle-sur-Aveyron45551 km N62343.2Partly servedCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 99 % · humidity 71 %
Porcheux60697 km N67741Partly servedCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 91 % · humidity 71 %
La Baffe88716 km NE63138.9Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 84 % · humidity 64 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Chuyer42401 km NE75946.8Partly servedCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 99 % · humidity 71 %
La Chapelle-Saint-Martin-en-Plaine41514 km N68734.2Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 91 % · humidity 71 %
La Chapelle-sur-Aveyron45551 km N62343.2Partly servedCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 99 % · humidity 71 %
Montceaux-lès-Meaux77669 km N66935.6Few servicesCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 89 % · humidity 71 %
Porcheux60697 km N67741Partly servedCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 91 % · humidity 71 %
La Baffe88716 km NE63138.9Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 84 % · 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 Beauchalot'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
Têche38428 km NE59635.4Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Saussenac81150 km NE63230.8Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Puyréaux16311 km N58234.9Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Thibault10621 km NE55136.3Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Rovon38434 km NE60533.4Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Montoldre03413 km NE59024.8Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %