Bernac

Tarn · CA Gaillac-Graulhet · INSEE 81029

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

Few services 22.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 73 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bernac (INSEE 81029) is in Tarn (81), part of CA Gaillac-Graulhet. Population 186 (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 22.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 73 % of the 15,549 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	0.87	10	8.68
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: 175 peak 2017: 186 2023: 186 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 184 (2012) → 186 (2023): 1.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 136 (1990) → 186 (2023): 36.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 106, of which 7.5 % second homes and 8.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 4.5 km SFood shop — 4.6 km SPharmacy — 4.6 km SEGP — 4.8 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 (Marssac-sur-Tarn): 4.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Marssac-sur-Tarn): 4.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Castelnau-de-Lévis): 4.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Castelnau-de-Lévis): 4.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Bernac): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 40.4

Days at or below 0 °C 47.3

Muggy days a summer 3.5

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 40 days a year at or above 30 °C and 47 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the SENOUILLAC weather station, 7.3 km away at 185 m; the village itself is at 192 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ALBI, 8.7 km away at 172 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 606 mm of rain a year, spread over 99 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at SENOUILLAC, 7.3 km away at 185 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81029/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81029/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81029/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81029/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81156
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81063
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81029
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
Bonvillers	60	627 km N	189	19	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 80 % · humidity 71 %
Viviers-le-Gras	88	553 km NE	181	17.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 86 % · humidity 79 %
Vyt-lès-Belvoir	25	519 km NE	179	21.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 81 % · humidity 71 %
Lachaussée-du-Bois-d'Écu	60	623 km N	182	21.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 84 % · humidity 71 %
Monts	60	585 km N	187	21.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %
Villars-le-Sec	90	547 km NE	176	24.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 73 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Vyt-lès-Belvoir	25	519 km NE	179	21.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 81 % · humidity 71 %
Villars-le-Sec	90	547 km NE	176	24.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 73 % · humidity 79 %
Viviers-le-Gras	88	553 km NE	181	17.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 86 % · humidity 79 %
Monts	60	585 km N	187	21.6	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 97 % · humidity 79 %
Lachaussée-du-Bois-d'Écu	60	623 km N	182	21.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 84 % · humidity 71 %
Bonvillers	60	627 km N	189	19	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 18 % · winter 80 % · 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 Bernac'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
Moulin-Neuf	09	99 km S	232	24	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
La Motte-Fanjas	26	284 km NE	198	16.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-le-Colonel	26	282 km NE	224	16.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Germier	81	35 km SE	169	16.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Combefa	81	12 km NE	206	17.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Sana	31	115 km SW	236	16.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

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