Fontrieu

Tarn · CC Sidobre Vals et Plateaux · INSEE 81062

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

Few services 28.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 28 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Fontrieu (INSEE 81062) is in Tarn (81), part of CC Sidobre Vals et Plateaux. Population 968 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2016-01-01 from 2 former communes: Ferrières (81091), Le Margnès (81153). ^[3]

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/81062-fontrieu

Vitality score

Vitality score 28.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 28 % of the 14,497 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.42	10	4.24
Housing mix	0.15	5	0.75

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no school. ^[4,5]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (CHARCUTERIE VEAUTE). ^[4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (CCC DU TARN). ^[4,5]

2 × Restaurant (POINT CAFE DE RAMIES · LE ROI BOEUF). ^[4,5]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Primary school (élémentaire).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[4,5]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	CHARCUTERIE VEAUTE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	CCC DU TARN	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Supermarket	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Restaurant	2	POINT CAFE DE RAMIES · LE ROI BOEUF	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [4,5]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [5]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,371 2023: 968 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 940 (2012) → 968 (2023): 3 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 1,048 (1990) → 968 (2023): -7.6 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 956, of which 42.5 % second homes and 7.3 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 1.7 km NEBakery — 2.4 km SWPrimary school — 2.4 km SWGP — 2.7 km SWPharmacy — 8.7 km NW 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 (Brassac): 2.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Fontrieu): 1.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Brassac): 2.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Vabre): 8.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Brassac): 2.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 15.8

Days at or below 0 °C 33.9

Muggy days a summer 2.5

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 16 days a year at or above 30 °C and 34 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the MONTREDON-LABESSONNIE weather station, 15.4 km away at 566 m; the village itself is at 541 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at MONTREDON-LABESSONNIE, 15.4 km away at 566 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 1,235 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 10 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at VABRE, 8.5 km away at 403 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81062/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81062/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81062/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81062/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81037
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81062
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81305
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
Saint-André-d'Allas	24	175 km NW	888	46.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Le Malzieu-Forain	48	149 km NE	484	19.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 4 %
Genouillé	86	323 km NW	504	24.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Paulinet	81	23 km N	498	19.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Chasseneuil	36	343 km N	714	19.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Woignarue	80	723 km N	732	37.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Paulinet	81	23 km N	498	19.2	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Le Malzieu-Forain	48	149 km NE	484	19.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 4 %
Saint-André-d'Allas	24	175 km NW	888	46.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 82 % · humidity 86 %
Genouillé	86	323 km NW	504	24.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Chasseneuil	36	343 km N	714	19.9	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Woignarue	80	723 km N	732	37.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Fontrieu'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
Genouillé	86	323 km NW	504	24.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Unverre	28	518 km N	1,203	38.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-André-sur-Sèvre	79	429 km NW	637	19.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Jau-Dignac-et-Loirac	33	338 km NW	1,007	27	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Frazé	28	525 km N	482	31	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Couëtron-au-Perche	41	504 km N	1,043	44.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %

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