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Sénarens

Haute-Garonne · CC Coeur de Garonne · INSEE 31543

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

Few services 20.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 81 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sénarens (INSEE 31543) is in Haute-Garonne (31), part of CC Coeur de Garonne. Population 118 (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/31543-senarens

Vitality score

Vitality score 20.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 81 % of the 12,024 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
Social0200
Education0.63106.32
Health0100
Public & culture0.3251.58
Population trend0.59105.93
Housing mix0.7953.97

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 1 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]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE). [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. [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 / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)1ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUEINSEE BPE 1 [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]
Library1BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALEINSEE BPE 1 [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]
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: 128 2023: 118 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 120 (2012) → 118 (2023): -1.7 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 108 (1990) → 118 (2023): 9.3 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 58, of which 10.3 % second homes and 3.4 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

10 km20 kmFood shop — 3.8 km NE (Montpezat)GP — 10.2 km SE (Le Fousseret)Bakery — 10.4 km SE (Le Fousseret)Pharmacy — 10.4 km SE (Le Fousseret)
In the commune Primary school Food shop — 3.8 km NEGP — 10.2 km SEBakery — 10.4 km SEPharmacy — 10.4 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 (Le Fousseret): 10.4 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Montpezat): 3.8 km to the north-east (straight line). [9]

GP (Le Fousseret): 10.2 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Le Fousseret): 10.4 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Sénarens): 0.2 km to the north-west (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 31 days a year at or above 30 °C and 47 days at or below 0 °C, over 12 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the MONDAVEZAN weather station, 15.4 km away at 261 m; the village itself is at 323 m. [11]

The village sits 62 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, 17.7 km away at 243 m, over 23 summers. [11]

That station sits 80 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 729 mm of rain a year, spread over 112 days — about 6.5 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at FABAS, 5.4 km away at 330 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 — 31543/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 31543/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 31543/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 31543/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 31193
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 32289
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 31543
  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
Saucède64135 km W12511.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 59 % · humidity 21 %
Duffort3246 km W1219.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %
Sabazan3285 km NW12610.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 64 % · humidity 57 %
Baillolet76717 km N11615.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 68 % · humidity 71 %
Montlauzun46106 km N12114No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 88 %
Sainte-Anastasie15257 km NE1227.7No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 45 % · humidity 64 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Duffort3246 km W1219.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 84 % · humidity 86 %
Sabazan3285 km NW12610.2No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 64 % · humidity 57 %
Montlauzun46106 km N12114No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.summer 87 % · winter 88 %
Saucède64135 km W12511.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 59 % · humidity 21 %
Sainte-Anastasie15257 km NE1227.7No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 45 % · humidity 64 %
Baillolet76717 km N11615.4No daily shopsCooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 68 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Sénarens'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
Bran17243 km NW13712.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Araille311.4 km NE12310.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Montlouis18398 km N11110.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Lary-Boujean3124 km SW1279.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Tayac33195 km NW12610.1No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Ambrus47114 km NW11015.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %