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Saint-Félix-Lauragais

Haute-Garonne · CC Aux sources du Canal du Midi · INSEE 31478

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

Partly served 42.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 62 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Félix-Lauragais (INSEE 31478) is in Haute-Garonne (31), part of CC Aux sources du Canal du Midi. Population 1,252 (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/31478-saint-felix-lauragais

Vitality score

Vitality score 42.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 62 % of the 12,976 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 food0.26256.56
Social0.43208.65
Education0.39103.93
Health0.51105.13
Public & culture0.3951.97
Population trend0.56105.64
Housing mix0.8354.15

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 2 of 4
Public services 1 of 1
Culture 1 of 2
Sport 0 of 2
Everyday services 1 of 3
Lodging 1 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) (LA LAURAGAISE). [3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (TODO LOCAUX). [3,4]

4 × Restaurant (AUBERGE DU POIDS PUBLIC · SARL LE GRILLON · PIZZA VAL · LA FERME). [3,4]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ALIX BOTTE, MÉDECIN · RAPHAEL FELIU, MÉDECIN). [3]

1 × Pharmacy. [3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SAINT FELIX LAURAGAIS LPAC AP). [3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE PLACE GUILLAUME DE NOGARET). [3]

4 × Hairdresser (COIFF'HAIR D'AUTAN · CLUB BEAUTE CONCEPT · JOCELYNE COIFFURE · COIFFURE CHRISTINE A DOMICILE). [3,4]

2 × Hotel (AUBERGE DU POIDS PUBLIC · HOTEL LE GRILLON). [3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × GP (médecin généraliste), 1 × Pharmacy.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle). [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)1LA LAURAGAISEINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)1TODO LOCAUXINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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]
Restaurant4AUBERGE DU POIDS PUBLIC · SARL LE GRILLON · PIZZA VAL · LA FERMEINSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 7 [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)2ALIX BOTTE, MÉDECIN · RAPHAEL FELIU, MÉDECININSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy1INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale1SAINT FELIX LAURAGAIS LPAC APINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library1BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE PLACE GUILLAUME DE NOGARETINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser4COIFF'HAIR D'AUTAN · CLUB BEAUTE CONCEPT · JOCELYNE COIFFURE · COIFFURE CHRISTINE A DOMICILEINSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel2AUBERGE DU POIDS PUBLIC · HOTEL LE GRILLONINSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 1,192 peak 2007: 1,354 2023: 1,252 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,311 (2012) → 1,252 (2023): -4.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 1,177 (1990) → 1,252 (2023): 6.4 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 692, of which 8.5 % second homes and 8.2 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 0.5 km SW (Saint-Félix-Lauragais)Pharmacy — 9.3 km E (Revel)
In the commune Bakery, Food shop, GP Primary school — 0.5 km SWPharmacy — 9.3 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 (Saint-Félix-Lauragais): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Saint-Félix-Lauragais): 0.4 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]

GP (Saint-Félix-Lauragais): 0 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Revel): 9.3 km to the east (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Saint-Félix-Lauragais): 0.5 km to the south-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 23 days a year at or above 30 °C and 20 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the ST-FELIX-LAURAGAIS weather station, 1 km away at 330 m; the village itself is at 331 m. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at ST-FELIX-LAURAGAIS, 1 km away at 330 m, over 19 summers. [10]

An average of 674 mm of rain a year, spread over 98 days — about 6.9 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at ST-FELIX-LAURAGAIS, 1 km away at 330 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 31478/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 31478/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 31478/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 31478/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 31478
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 31451
  10. 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
Juvigny les Vallées50623 km N1,67434.9Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 39 % · humidity 64 %
Lonlay-l'Abbaye61612 km N1,12340.4Partly servedCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 77 % · humidity 64 %
Le Grand-Bourg23302 km N1,16739.8Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 77 % · humidity 79 %
Buxières-les-Mines03346 km N99442.6Partly servedSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 69 % · humidity 71 %
Verruyes79382 km NW90045.3Partly servedCooler summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 74 %
Cercoux17250 km NW1,30239.4Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 77 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Cercoux17250 km NW1,30239.4Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 77 %
Le Grand-Bourg23302 km N1,16739.8Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 77 % · humidity 79 %
Buxières-les-Mines03346 km N99442.6Partly servedSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 69 % · humidity 71 %
Verruyes79382 km NW90045.3Partly servedCooler summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 74 %
Lonlay-l'Abbaye61612 km N1,12340.4Partly servedCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 77 % · humidity 64 %
Juvigny les Vallées50623 km N1,67434.9Few servicesCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 39 % · 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 Saint-Félix-Lauragais'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
Civaux86347 km N1,21048.7Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Aillas33194 km NW78640.4Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Vicq-sur-Gartempe86373 km N65840.6Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Grignols33187 km NW1,21658.4Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Boisredon17283 km NW71136.5Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Berson33270 km NW1,84644.5Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %