Saint-Julien-du-Puy

Tarn · CC du Lautrécois et du Pays d'Agout · INSEE 81258

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

Few services 21.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 34 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Julien-du-Puy (INSEE 81258) is in Tarn (81), part of CC du Lautrécois et du Pays d'Agout. Population 447 (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/81258-saint-julien-du-puy

Vitality score

Vitality score 21.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 34 % of the 17,931 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	0.78	10	7.84
Housing mix	0.77	5	3.87

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

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

1 × Gym / sports hall (GYMNASE). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (MARIE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 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]
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)	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	1	GYMNASE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	2	MARIE COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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: 403 2023: 447 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 418 (2012) → 447 (2023): 6.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 348 (1990) → 447 (2023): 28.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 231, of which 11.3 % second homes and 9.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 2.2 km NPharmacy — 4.4 km NEGP — 4.5 km NEBakery — 5.4 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 (Graulhet): 5.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Montdragon): 2.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Laboutarie): 4.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Laboutarie): 4.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Saint-Julien-du-Puy): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 50.9▸

Days at or below 0 °C 46

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 51 days a year at or above 30 °C and 46 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the FLORENTIN weather station, 15 km away at 204 m; the village itself is at 199 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at ALBI, 17.7 km away at 172 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 785 mm of rain a year, spread over 103 days — about 7.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at GRAULHET, 7.1 km away at 167 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 — 81258/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81258/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81258/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81258/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81105
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81174
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81119
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81258
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
La Pérouille	36	331 km N	427	21.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 21 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Cauzac	47	117 km NW	420	20.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 80 % · humidity 64 %
Malaussanne	64	207 km W	450	19.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 84 % · humidity 36 %
La Chapelle-Gauthier	27	595 km N	406	19.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 95 % · humidity 79 %
Haudricourt	76	665 km N	461	18.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Grateloup-Saint-Gayrand	47	154 km NW	469	18.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 91 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Cauzac	47	117 km NW	420	20.5	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 74 % · winter 80 % · humidity 64 %
Grateloup-Saint-Gayrand	47	154 km NW	469	18.8	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 91 % · humidity 79 %
Malaussanne	64	207 km W	450	19.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 84 % · humidity 36 %
La Pérouille	36	331 km N	427	21.2	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 21 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
La Chapelle-Gauthier	27	595 km N	406	19.7	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 95 % · humidity 79 %
Haudricourt	76	665 km N	461	18.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 72 % · 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 Saint-Julien-du-Puy'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
Vaïssac	82	51 km NW	964	24.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Castelnau-Valence	30	176 km E	469	23	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Puygiron	26	237 km NE	431	29.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Orban	81	9.5 km N	351	23.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Lagarde-Paréol	84	228 km E	319	19.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Rouffiac	81	14 km N	639	22.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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