Montgaillard

Tarn · CA Gaillac-Graulhet · INSEE 81178

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

Few services 39.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 88 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Montgaillard (INSEE 81178) is in Tarn (81), part of CA Gaillac-Graulhet. Population 362 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 39.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 88 % of the 18,059 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.95	10	9.54
Housing mix	0.85	5	4.23

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (O SAVEURS DE L'OISEAU BLEU - SAFRAN L'OISEAU BLEU · LA EMPANADILLA AMARILLA). ^[3,4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (NICOLE PASSERINI, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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]
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	2	O SAVEURS DE L'OISEAU BLEU - SAFRAN L'OISEAU BLEU · LA EMPANADILLA AMARILLA	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	NICOLE PASSERINI, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 294 peak 2012: 398 2023: 362 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 398 (2012) → 362 (2023): -9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 249 (1990) → 362 (2023): 45.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 183, of which 7.7 % second homes and 6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 0.8 km SBakery — 4.7 km SEFood shop — 4.8 km NWPharmacy — 7.6 km E 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 (Grazac): 4.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Verlhac-Tescou): 4.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Montgaillard): 0.8 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Salvagnac): 7.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Montgaillard): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 35.1

Days at or below 0 °C 31.7

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 35 days a year at or above 30 °C and 32 days at or below 0 °C, over 21 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the PUYCELSI weather station, 10.5 km away at 260 m; the village itself is at 163 m. ^[12]

The village sits 97 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at PUYCELSI, 10.5 km away at 260 m, over 21 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 97 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 747 mm of rain a year, spread over 106 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at SALVAGNAC, 7 km away at 190 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 — 81178/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81178/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81178/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81178/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81106
INSEE BPE 2025 — 82192
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81178
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81276
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
Aurouër	03	336 km NE	400	34.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 64 % · humidity 71 %
Quézac	15	104 km NE	344	29.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 91 % · humidity 64 %
Petit-Auverné	44	468 km NW	434	31	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 41 % · winter 86 %
Saint-Avit	26	303 km NE	317	30	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 57 % · humidity 64 %
Omps	15	121 km NE	314	34.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 49 % · humidity 57 %
Lorlanges	43	207 km NE	425	33	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 84 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Quézac	15	104 km NE	344	29.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 91 % · humidity 64 %
Omps	15	121 km NE	314	34.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 49 % · humidity 57 %
Lorlanges	43	207 km NE	425	33	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 84 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Avit	26	303 km NE	317	30	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 57 % · humidity 64 %
Aurouër	03	336 km NE	400	34.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 64 % · humidity 71 %
Petit-Auverné	44	468 km NW	434	31	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 41 % · winter 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 Montgaillard'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
Solférino	40	203 km W	374	27.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Montégut-Plantaurel	09	94 km S	311	36.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Beylongue	40	194 km W	400	28.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Faudoas	82	52 km W	291	25.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Gigouzac	46	76 km N	303	36.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Bourlens	47	75 km NW	372	18	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

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