Lodes

Haute-Garonne · CC Coeur et Coteaux du Comminges · INSEE 31302

A school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink.

Few services 21.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 48 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lodes (INSEE 31302) is in Haute-Garonne (31), part of CC Coeur et Coteaux du Comminges. Population 308 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 21.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 48 % of the 17,889 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	25	0
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.75	10	7.47
Housing mix	0.85	5	4.25

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 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 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, 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)	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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 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: 279 2023: 308 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 287 (2012) → 308 (2023): 7.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 247 (1990) → 308 (2023): 24.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 147, of which 7.5 % second homes and 3.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.6 km NEPharmacy — 5.4 km SFood shop — 5.5 km SGP — 7.6 km SE 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 (Lalouret-Laffiteau): 2.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Villeneuve-de-Rivière): 5.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Gaudens): 7.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Villeneuve-de-Rivière): 5.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Lodes): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 19.7

Days at or below 0 °C 56.5

Muggy days a summer 5.6

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 20 days a year at or above 30 °C and 57 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the CLARAC weather station, 8.3 km away at 401 m; the village itself is at 400 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at CLARAC, 8.3 km away at 401 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 901 mm of rain a year, spread over 119 days — about 7.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ST-MARCET, 7.4 km away at 348 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 31302/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 31302/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 31302/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 31302/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 31268
INSEE BPE 2025 — 31585
INSEE BPE 2025 — 31483
INSEE BPE 2025 — 31302
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
Saint-Paul-d'Izeaux	38	448 km NE	307	21.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 97 % · humidity 57 %
Bitry	60	719 km N	308	19.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 71 %
Rahart	41	524 km N	300	20.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 64 %
Briot	60	727 km N	302	20.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 84 % · humidity 57 %
Riville	76	729 km N	313	19.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 54 % · winter 47 %
Voulton	77	640 km N	295	18.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 82 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Paul-d'Izeaux	38	448 km NE	307	21.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 97 % · humidity 57 %
Rahart	41	524 km N	300	20.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 64 %
Voulton	77	640 km N	295	18.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 82 % · humidity 71 %
Bitry	60	719 km N	308	19.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 81 % · humidity 71 %
Briot	60	727 km N	302	20.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 84 % · humidity 57 %
Riville	76	729 km N	313	19.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.summer 54 % · winter 47 %

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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 Lodes'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
Franquevielle	31	12 km W	339	17	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Grandjean	17	318 km N	308	14.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Denis-de-Palin	18	444 km N	274	7.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Vallereuil	24	212 km N	260	12.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Berthegon	86	416 km N	259	9.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Massognes	86	400 km N	274	13.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %

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