Saint-Affrique-les-Montagnes

Tarn · CC du Sor et de l'Agout · INSEE 81235

A food shop and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink.

Few services 30.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 46 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Affrique-les-Montagnes (INSEE 81235) is in Tarn (81), part of CC du Sor et de l'Agout. Population 748 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[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/81235-saint-affrique-les-montagnes

Vitality score

Vitality score 30.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 46 % of the 16,048 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.93	5	4.66

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 1 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 a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Hairdresser (O COUP DE CISEAUX). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	O COUP DE CISEAUX	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 354 peak 2012: 789 2023: 748 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 789 (2012) → 748 (2023): -5.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 438 (1990) → 748 (2023): 70.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 353, of which 3.4 % second homes and 5.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 0.6 km SBakery — 2.8 km NWPharmacy — 2.9 km NWGP — 4.5 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 (Viviers-lès-Montagnes): 2.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Affrique-les-Montagnes): 0.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Verdalle): 4.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Viviers-lès-Montagnes): 2.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Affrique-les-Montagnes): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 39.2

Days at or below 0 °C 31.1

Muggy days a summer 10.9▸

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 39 days a year at or above 30 °C and 31 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the DOURGNE weather station, 7.3 km away at 234 m; the village itself is at 242 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at DOURGNE, 7.3 km away at 234 m, over 16 summers. ^[11]

An average of 887 mm of rain a year, spread over 108 days — about 8.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at DOURGNE, 7.3 km away at 234 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 — 81235/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81235/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81235/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81235/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81325
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81235
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81312
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
Rocquemont	76	678 km N	747	31.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 18 % · winter 77 %
Fouquebrune	16	272 km NW	714	25.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 61 % · humidity 43 %
Neugartheim-Ittlenheim	67	702 km NE	784	31.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 73 % · humidity 36 %
Génébrières	82	76 km NW	661	30.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 85 % · humidity 50 %
Guenviller	57	712 km NE	680	26.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 64 % · humidity 29 %
Les Trois-Pierres	76	682 km N	832	27.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 13 % · winter 95 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Génébrières	82	76 km NW	661	30.8	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 85 % · humidity 50 %
Fouquebrune	16	272 km NW	714	25.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 61 % · humidity 43 %
Rocquemont	76	678 km N	747	31.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 18 % · winter 77 %
Les Trois-Pierres	76	682 km N	832	27.9	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 13 % · winter 95 %
Neugartheim-Ittlenheim	67	702 km NE	784	31.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 73 % · humidity 36 %
Guenviller	57	712 km NE	680	26.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 64 % · humidity 29 %

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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 Saint-Affrique-les-Montagnes'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
Escoussens	81	4.3 km S	614	40.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Pujo-le-Plan	40	207 km W	641	28.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Maurice-sur-Adour	40	216 km W	625	29.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Laglorieuse	40	213 km W	626	36.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Granges-sur-Lot	47	168 km NW	590	21.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Calamane	46	127 km NW	471	24.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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