Blan

Tarn · CC Aux sources du Canal du Midi · INSEE 81032

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

Few services 31.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 32 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Blan (INSEE 81032) is in Tarn (81), part of CC Aux sources du Canal du Midi. Population 1,093 (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/81032-blan

Vitality score

Vitality score 31.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 32 % of the 13,785 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.98	10	9.83
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.61

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 1 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]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (EURL GAUBERT). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE CHASSE MAREE). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE LAS CASES). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (BLAN AP). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	EURL GAUBERT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	LE CHASSE MAREE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE DE LAS CASES	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	1	BLAN AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 434 peak 2012: 1,154 2023: 1,093 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,154 (2012) → 1,093 (2023): -5.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 737 (1990) → 1,093 (2023): 48.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 486, of which 3.9 % second homes and 4.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 1.2 km SFood shop — 4.2 km NPharmacy — 4.3 km NGP — 4.7 km N 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 (Blan): 1.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Puylaurens): 4.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Puylaurens): 4.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Puylaurens): 4.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Blan): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 52▸

Days at or below 0 °C 18.3▸

Muggy days a summer 10.9▸

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 52 days a year at or above 30 °C and 18 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the PUYLAURENS weather station, 4.6 km away at 312 m; the village itself is at 206 m. ^[10]

The village sits 106 m below 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 11 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at DOURGNE, 11.4 km away at 234 m, over 16 summers. ^[10]

An average of 778 mm of rain a year, spread over 107 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at PUYLAURENS, 4.6 km away at 312 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 — 81032/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81032/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81032/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81032/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81032
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81219
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
Parisot	81	33 km NW	1,033	31.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 64 % · humidity 64 %
Ohain	59	741 km N	1,171	28.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 49 % · humidity 29 %
Mondrepuis	02	732 km N	1,028	33	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 39 % · humidity 29 %
Ardon	45	473 km N	1,203	34	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 23 % · winter 42 %
Cases-de-Pène	66	105 km SE	973	43	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 86 % · humidity 71 %
Exideuil-sur-Vienne	16	283 km N	1,035	27.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 69 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Parisot	81	33 km NW	1,033	31.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 64 % · humidity 64 %
Cases-de-Pène	66	105 km SE	973	43	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 86 % · humidity 71 %
Exideuil-sur-Vienne	16	283 km N	1,035	27.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 69 % · humidity 57 %
Ardon	45	473 km N	1,203	34	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 23 % · winter 42 %
Mondrepuis	02	732 km N	1,028	33	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 39 % · humidity 29 %
Ohain	59	741 km N	1,171	28.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 49 % · humidity 29 %

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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 Blan'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
Lempaut	81	4.6 km E	878	37.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Germain-des-Prés	81	5.9 km NE	928	32.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Cambounet-sur-le-Sor	81	10 km NE	978	46.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Douelle	46	117 km NW	830	53.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Palleville	81	2.8 km S	451	31.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Domazan	30	217 km E	960	37.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %

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