Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux

Tarn · CC du Lautrécois et du Pays d'Agout · INSEE 81266

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

Partly served 50.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 84 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux (INSEE 81266) is in Tarn (81), part of CC du Lautrécois et du Pays d'Agout. Population 1,054 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[2]

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 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/81266-saint-paul-cap-de-joux

Vitality score

Vitality score 50.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 84 % of the 14,019 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	0.47	25	11.83
Social	0.46	20	9.18
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.64	10	6.41
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.58

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA PETITE BOULANGERIE). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (HERBOVIANDES). ^[3]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (SPAR · LE DEPANNEUR 81). ^[3,4]

5 × Restaurant (PIZZA NELL · THEO BON ENDROIT · LOCALES PIZZ'). ^[3,4]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (MATTHIEU DUMAS, MÉDECIN · ALEXANDRE MAISONNEUVE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE CENTRALE). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (MEDIATHEQUE INTERCOMMUNALE DU LAUTRÉCOIS-PAYS D'AGOUT). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (STADE DE FOOTBALL). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (DIMINU-TIFF). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie), 1 × Pharmacy.

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LA PETITE BOULANGERIE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	HERBOVIANDES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	SPAR · LE DEPANNEUR 81	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	5	PIZZA NELL · THEO BON ENDROIT · LOCALES PIZZ'	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [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)	2	MATTHIEU DUMAS, MÉDECIN · ALEXANDRE MAISONNEUVE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE CENTRALE	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MEDIATHEQUE INTERCOMMUNALE DU LAUTRÉCOIS-PAYS D'AGOUT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	STADE DE FOOTBALL	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	2	DIMINU-TIFF	INSEE BPE 2 / 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

Weekly market: Tuesday matin place de l'église. ^[5,6]

Confirmed by two independent sources: Commune website and DATAtourisme.

Trajectory

1968: 920 peak 2017: 1,117 2023: 1,054 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,090 (2012) → 1,054 (2023): -3.3 % over 10 years. ^[7,1]

Population 924 (1990) → 1,054 (2023): 14.1 % over 30 years. ^[8,1]

Dwellings (2023): 599, of which 4.2 % second homes and 12.4 % vacant. ^[9]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 5.1 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 (Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Food shop (Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Guitalens-L'Albarède): 5.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Saint-Paul-Cap-de-Joux): 0.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 52▸

Days at or below 0 °C 18.1▸

Muggy days a summer 7.3

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 52 days a year at or above 30 °C and 18 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the PUYLAURENS weather station, 9.1 km away at 312 m; the village itself is at 154 m. ^[12]

The village sits 158 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 7 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at LAVAUR, 10.1 km away at 131 m, over 29 summers. ^[12]

An average of 784 mm of rain a year, spread over 103 days — about 7.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ST-PAUL-CAP-DE, 0.3 km away at 162 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

What property sold for

56 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 143,382 € — 1,163 € per m² of built surface. ^[13]

8 flats sold over the same window, at a median of 127,500 € — 900 € per m². ^[13]

The median across Tarn is 1,319 € per m², so this commune sits below it. ^[13]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81266/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
Commune website 2026-10— https://saintpaulcapdejoux.fr/le-marche/— “Le village s'anime tous les mardi matins sur la place de l'église avec son marché forain et ses produits du terroir.”
DATAtourisme 2026-07— https://data.datatourisme.fr/13/f6f7ddae-1f0d-327c-b0a0-7ce36e358409— “Tous les mardis matin, petit marché de producteurs sur la place du village !”
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81266/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81266/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81266/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81266
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81132
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Berd'huis	61	531 km N	1,097	45.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 5 % · winter 49 %
Orgères-en-Beauce	28	501 km N	1,007	46.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 59 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Parres-lès-Vaudes	10	532 km N	1,084	51.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 45 % · humidity 71 %
Arzens	11	53 km S	1,174	48.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Roulans	25	526 km NE	1,125	43.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 1 % · humidity 57 %
Labastide-d'Anjou	11	35 km S	1,255	49	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 84 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Labastide-d'Anjou	11	35 km S	1,255	49	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 44 % · winter 84 % · humidity 79 %
Arzens	11	53 km S	1,174	48.9	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 54 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Orgères-en-Beauce	28	501 km N	1,007	46.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 59 % · humidity 57 %
Roulans	25	526 km NE	1,125	43.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 23 % · winter 1 % · humidity 57 %
Berd'huis	61	531 km N	1,097	45.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 5 % · winter 49 %
Saint-Parres-lès-Vaudes	10	532 km N	1,084	51.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 45 % · humidity 71 %

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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-Paul-Cap-de-Joux'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-Nazaire	30	221 km E	1,312	35.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Mérindol	84	260 km E	2,283	65.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Lédenon	30	205 km E	1,685	53.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Victor-la-Coste	30	219 km E	2,233	44.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Maurice-de-Cazevieille	30	186 km E	753	56.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Bassan	34	107 km E	2,383	46.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %

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