Ambres

Tarn · CC Tarn-Agout · INSEE 81011

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

Few services 32.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 37 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ambres (INSEE 81011) is in Tarn (81), part of CC Tarn-Agout. Population 1,033 (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/81011-ambres

Vitality score

Vitality score 32.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 37 % of the 14,096 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.97	10	9.74
Housing mix	0.89	5	4.44

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (SARL LE PALAIS GOURMAND · LES PAINS D'AMBRES). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE EMMANUELLE CHARPENTIER). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (MON SALON · SASSUS- QUINSAC VIRGINIE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), 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

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	SARL LE PALAIS GOURMAND · LES PAINS D'AMBRES	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE EMMANUELLE CHARPENTIER	INSEE BPE 1 [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	3	MON SALON · SASSUS- QUINSAC VIRGINIE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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: 580 2023: 1,033 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 954 (2012) → 1,033 (2023): 8.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 701 (1990) → 1,033 (2023): 47.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 463, of which 5.6 % second homes and 6.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 0.7 km SEBakery — 1.0 km SEFood shop — 2.5 km SGP — 2.9 km SPharmacy — 3.4 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 (Ambres): 1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

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

GP (Lavaur): 2.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Lavaur): 3.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Ambres): 0.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 38.4

Days at or below 0 °C 45.5

Muggy days a summer 5.9

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 38 days a year at or above 30 °C and 46 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LAVAUR weather station, 5.9 km away at 131 m; the village itself is at 182 m. ^[10]

The village sits 51 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. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at LAVAUR, 5.9 km away at 131 m, over 29 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 51 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 674 mm of rain a year, spread over 100 days — about 6.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LAVAUR, 5.9 km away at 131 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81011/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81011/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81011/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81011/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81011
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81140
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
Came	64	237 km W	1,024	34.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 76 % · humidity 29 %
Josse	40	245 km W	1,018	34.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 76 % · humidity 0 %
Andilly	74	423 km NE	1,013	30	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 41 % · humidity 57 %
Puttelange-lès-Thionville	57	724 km NE	1,029	30.4	Few services	no figures
Loupiac	33	196 km NW	1,093	25.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 76 % · humidity 64 %
Rosoy	89	505 km N	1,072	33.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 100 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Loupiac	33	196 km NW	1,093	25.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 79 % · winter 76 % · humidity 64 %
Came	64	237 km W	1,024	34.8	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 72 % · winter 76 % · humidity 29 %
Josse	40	245 km W	1,018	34.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 76 % · humidity 0 %
Andilly	74	423 km NE	1,013	30	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 41 % · humidity 57 %
Rosoy	89	505 km N	1,072	33.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 100 % · humidity 71 %
Puttelange-lès-Thionville	57	724 km NE	1,029	30.4	Few services	no figures

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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 Ambres'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
Parisot	81	7.7 km N	1,033	31.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Poucharramet	31	62 km SW	974	42.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Porchères	33	203 km NW	887	30	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Mondavezan	31	83 km SW	880	42.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Varennes	82	32 km NW	627	38.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Lieux-lès-Lavaur	81	5.6 km NW	1,269	31.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

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