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Salles-et-Pratviel

Haute-Garonne · CC Pyrénées Haut Garonnaises · INSEE 31524

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

No daily shops 13.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 41 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Salles-et-Pratviel (INSEE 31524) is in Haute-Garonne (31), part of CC Pyrénées Haut Garonnaises. Population 129 (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/31524-salles-et-pratviel

Vitality score

Vitality score 13.3/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 41 % of the 12,827 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 food0250
Social0.32206.32
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.5105
Housing mix050

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 1 of 1
Schools 0 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 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”.

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school. [3,4]

1 × Café / bar. [4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING LE PYRENEEN). [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar1INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [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]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite1CAMPING LE PYRENEENINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 88 peak 2012: 144 2023: 129 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 144 (2012) → 129 (2023): -10.4 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 129 (1990) → 129 (2023): 0 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 135, of which 52.6 % second homes and 5.2 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 2.5 km S (Moustajon)Pharmacy — 3.7 km S (Bagnères-de-Luchon)Bakery — 4.0 km S (Bagnères-de-Luchon)Primary school — 4.2 km S (Montauban-de-Luchon)GP — 4.2 km S (Montauban-de-Luchon)
Food shop — 2.5 km SPharmacy — 3.7 km SBakery — 4.0 km SPrimary school — 4.2 km SGP — 4.2 km S 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 (Bagnères-de-Luchon): 4 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Moustajon): 2.5 km to the south (straight line). [9]

GP (Montauban-de-Luchon): 4.2 km to the south (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Bagnères-de-Luchon): 3.7 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Montauban-de-Luchon): 4.2 km to the south (straight line). [10]

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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 80 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the LUCHON weather station, 3.3 km away at 618 m; the village itself is at 600 m. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at LUCHON, 3.3 km away at 618 m, over 30 summers. [11]

An average of 928 mm of rain a year, spread over 117 days — about 7.9 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at LUCHON, 3.3 km away at 618 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 — 31524/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 31524/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 31524/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 31524/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 31042
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 31394
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 31360
  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
Olmo2B721 km E13818.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Saumane04434 km E13019.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 54 % · winter 31 %
Campôme66146 km E12413.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Lento2B710 km E11719.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 3 % · humidity 93 %
Unac0996 km E12715.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Castans11165 km NE1247.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 39 % · humidity 86 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Unac0996 km E12715.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Campôme66146 km E12413.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Castans11165 km NE1247.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 39 % · humidity 86 %
Saumane04434 km E13019.9No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.summer 54 % · winter 31 %
Lento2B710 km E11719.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 3 % · humidity 93 %
Olmo2B721 km E13818.1No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Salles-et-Pratviel'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
Campôme66146 km E12413.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Montgilbert73544 km NE1149.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Besse15288 km NE13614.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Coiffy-le-Haut52690 km NE1063.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Bourget-en-Huile73535 km NE14227.7Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Barésia-sur-l'Ain39578 km NE16312.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %