Puycalvel

Tarn · CC du Lautrécois et du Pays d'Agout · INSEE 81216

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

No daily shops 18.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 52 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Puycalvel (INSEE 81216) is in Tarn (81), part of CC du Lautrécois et du Pays d'Agout. Population 217 (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 18.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 52 % of the 16,488 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	0.58	10	5.8
Housing mix	0.74	5	3.68

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: 205 peak 2017: 221 2023: 217 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 218 (2012) → 217 (2023): -0.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 201 (1990) → 217 (2023): 8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 114, of which 13.2 % second homes and 8.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 4.7 km NEBakery — 4.8 km NEGP — 4.8 km NEPharmacy — 5.9 km SW 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 (Lautrec): 4.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lautrec): 4.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Lautrec): 4.8 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Guitalens-L'Albarède): 5.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 48.6▸

Days at or below 0 °C 34.1

Muggy days a summer 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 49 days a year at or above 30 °C and 34 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CASTRES weather station, 13.6 km away at 196 m; the village itself is at 227 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at LAVAUR, 18.2 km away at 131 m, over 29 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 96 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 784 mm of rain a year, spread over 103 days — about 7.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ST-PAUL-CAP-DE, 10.2 km away at 162 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 — 81216/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81216/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81216/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81216/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81139
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81132
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81216
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
Poudenx	40	216 km W	219	19.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 92 % · humidity 36 %
Pleine-Selve	33	280 km NW	223	20	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 59 % · winter 91 %
Levis	89	452 km N	223	19	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Antagnac	47	183 km NW	223	20.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Salvy	47	149 km NW	200	20.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Antoine	32	108 km W	194	19.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 77 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Antoine	32	108 km W	194	19.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 67 % · winter 77 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Salvy	47	149 km NW	200	20.4	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Antagnac	47	183 km NW	223	20.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Poudenx	40	216 km W	219	19.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 92 % · humidity 36 %
Pleine-Selve	33	280 km NW	223	20	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 59 % · winter 91 %
Levis	89	452 km N	223	19	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Puycalvel'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
Saint-Urcisse	47	115 km NW	242	16.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Cambes	47	176 km NW	170	11.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Montignac-Toupinerie	47	169 km NW	137	11.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Puysserampion	47	175 km NW	265	17.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Magrin	81	16 km SW	140	13.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Armillac	47	168 km NW	209	23.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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