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Marnaves

Tarn · CC du Cordais et du Causse (4 C) · INSEE 81154

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 6.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 10 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Marnaves (INSEE 81154) is in Tarn (81), part of CC du Cordais et du Causse (4 C). Population 76 (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/81154-marnaves

Vitality score

Vitality score 6.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 10 % of the 8,064 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
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.53105.27
Housing mix0.1350.63

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 111 2023: 76 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 76 (2012) → 76 (2023): 0 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 74 (1990) → 76 (2023): 2.7 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 71, of which 43.7 % second homes and 4.2 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmPrimary school — 3.5 km N (Milhars)Food shop — 5.3 km SE (Cordes-sur-Ciel)GP — 5.8 km SE (Cordes-sur-Ciel)Bakery — 6.1 km SE (Cordes-sur-Ciel)Pharmacy — 6.6 km N (Varen)
Primary school — 3.5 km NFood shop — 5.3 km SEGP — 5.8 km SEBakery — 6.1 km SEPharmacy — 6.6 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 (Cordes-sur-Ciel): 6.1 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Cordes-sur-Ciel): 5.3 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

GP (Cordes-sur-Ciel): 5.8 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Varen): 6.6 km to the north (straight line). [9]

Primary school (Milhars): 3.5 km to the north (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 40 days a year at or above 30 °C and 32 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the MONTELS weather station, 14.9 km away at 255 m; the village itself is at 164 m. [11]

The village sits 91 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. [11]

An average of 756 mm of rain a year, spread over 106 days — about 7.1 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at CORDES, 6 km away at 174 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 — 81154/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  4. INSEE BPE 2025
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81154/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81154/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81154/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 81069
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 82187
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 81165
  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
Touquettes61535 km N757.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 18 % · winter 80 %
Ferrières-Poussarou34106 km SE7412.5No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 86 %
Les Côtes-de-Corps38330 km E7412.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 23 % · winter 3 %
Montbrand05307 km E7512.2No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 46 % · winter 0 %
Veix19157 km N806.7No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 23 % · winter 50 %
Revest-Saint-Martin04315 km E796.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 3 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Ferrières-Poussarou34106 km SE7412.5No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.summer 69 % · winter 86 %
Veix19157 km N806.7No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 23 % · winter 50 %
Montbrand05307 km E7512.2No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 46 % · winter 0 %
Revest-Saint-Martin04315 km E796.6No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 100 % · winter 3 %
Les Côtes-de-Corps38330 km E7412.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 23 % · winter 3 %
Touquettes61535 km N757.5No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.summer 18 % · winter 80 %

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