Puygouzon

Tarn · CA de l'Albigeois (C2A) · INSEE 81218

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

Few services 32.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 5 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Puygouzon (INSEE 81218) is in Tarn (81), part of CA de l'Albigeois (C2A). Population 3,548 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[2]

Commune nouvelle formed on 2017-01-01 from 1 former commune: Labastide-Dénat (81113). ^[3]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/81218-puygouzon

Vitality score

Vitality score 32.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 5 % of the 6,210 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	0.2	25	5.12
Social	0.26	20	5.28
Education	0	10	0
Health	0.37	10	3.74
Public & culture	0.22	5	1.11
Population trend	0.75	10	7.49
Housing mix	0.98	5	4.89

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 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 3 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (L EPI DU ROUERGUE · L'ESPRIT DU PAIN). ^[4,5]

1 × Supermarket (CARREFOUR MARKET). ^[4,5]

3 × Restaurant (LE GARBAN · PASS O CAMION). ^[4,5]

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (VINCENT SIDOBRE, MÉDECIN · THIBAULT COUDOIN, MÉDECIN · CLÉMENT VAUR, MÉDECIN). ^[4]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE PAGET). ^[4,5]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[4]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE MUNICIPALE PUYGOULIRE). ^[4]

1 × Bank (AGENCE PUYGOUZON). ^[4]

3 × Hairdresser (MAGALY COIFFURE · JEAN-CLAUDE AUBRY). ^[4,5]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant, 1 × Primary school (élémentaire).

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire). ^[5,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	L EPI DU ROUERGUE · L'ESPRIT DU PAIN	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [4,5]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [5]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Supermarket	1	CARREFOUR MARKET	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,5]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [5]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
Restaurant	3	LE GARBAN · PASS O CAMION	INSEE BPE 3 / 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)	3	VINCENT SIDOBRE, MÉDECIN · THIBAULT COUDOIN, MÉDECIN · CLÉMENT VAUR, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [4]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE PAGET	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,5]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE MUNICIPALE PUYGOULIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	1	AGENCE PUYGOUZON	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Hairdresser	3	MAGALY COIFFURE · JEAN-CLAUDE AUBRY	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [4,5]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,5]
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: 920 2023: 3,548 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 3,327 (2012) → 3,548 (2023): 6.6 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 2,841 (1990) → 3,548 (2023): 24.9 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,679, of which 1.1 % second homes and 5.4 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, GP Pharmacy — 0.5 km WPrimary school — 2.5 km W 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 (Puygouzon): 0.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Puygouzon): 0.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Puygouzon): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Puygouzon): 0.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saliès): 2.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 43.2

Days at or below 0 °C 38.5

Muggy days a summer 3.5

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 43 days a year at or above 30 °C and 39 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ALBI weather station, 5 km away at 172 m; the village itself is at 217 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ALBI, 5 km away at 172 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 718 mm of rain a year, spread over 103 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ALBI, 5 km away at 172 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 — 81218/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE COG 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81218/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81218/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81218/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81218
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81274
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
Olemps	12	58 km NE	3,559	37.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 68 % · humidity 79 %
Pradines	46	89 km NW	3,617	39	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Bousse	57	673 km NE	3,236	37	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 26 % · winter 92 %
Lécousse	35	562 km NW	3,530	38.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 5 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Le Breuil	71	370 km NE	3,538	28.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 80 % · humidity 86 %
Neuilly-Crimolois	21	440 km NE	3,588	37.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Olemps	12	58 km NE	3,559	37.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 68 % · humidity 79 %
Pradines	46	89 km NW	3,617	39	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Le Breuil	71	370 km NE	3,538	28.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 41 % · winter 80 % · humidity 86 %
Neuilly-Crimolois	21	440 km NE	3,588	37.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Lécousse	35	562 km NW	3,530	38.5	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 5 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Bousse	57	673 km NE	3,236	37	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 26 % · winter 92 %

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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 Puygouzon'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
Pradines	46	89 km NW	3,617	39	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Jean-de-Moirans	38	315 km NE	3,620	45.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Lespinasse	31	66 km W	3,251	38.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Mours-Saint-Eusèbe	26	264 km NE	3,424	41.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Roquefort-la-Bédoule	13	285 km E	5,798	47.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Lescure-d'Albigeois	81	6.9 km N	4,590	42.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %

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