Sauveterre

Tarn · CC Thoré Montagne Noire · INSEE 81278

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 11.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 23 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sauveterre (INSEE 81278) is in Tarn (81), part of CC Thoré Montagne Noire. Population 188 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 11.8/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 23 % of the 15,585 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	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.74	10	7.37
Housing mix	0.53	5	2.67

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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: 166 2023: 188 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 183 (2012) → 188 (2023): 2.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 152 (1990) → 188 (2023): 23.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 120, of which 23.3 % second homes and 6.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 1.8 km SWFood shop — 1.9 km SWPharmacy — 5.1 km WBakery — 6.1 km EGP — 6.5 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 (Labastide-Rouairoux): 6.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Albine): 1.9 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Labastide-Rouairoux): 6.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Amans-Soult): 5.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Albine): 1.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 34.1

Days at or below 0 °C 43.7

Muggy days a summer 4.5

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 34 days a year at or above 30 °C and 44 days at or below 0 °C, over 25 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ROUAIROUX weather station, 2.5 km away at 347 m; the village itself is at 314 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at LABASTIDE-ROUAIROUX, 8.5 km away at 448 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 134 m above 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 1,625 mm of rain a year, spread over 133 days — about 12.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ROUAIROUX, 2.5 km away at 347 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 — 81278/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81278/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81278/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81278/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81115
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81005
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81238
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
Senaide	88	560 km NE	185	7.7	No daily shops	no figures
Vic-sous-Thil	21	455 km N	188	8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 78 % · humidity 71 %
Espenel	26	253 km NE	193	14.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 97 % · humidity 64 %
Hautecour	39	427 km NE	196	12.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 47 % · humidity 64 %
Givry	89	460 km N	181	10.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 91 % · humidity 79 %
Grignon	21	477 km N	186	6.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 61 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Espenel	26	253 km NE	193	14.9	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 97 % · humidity 64 %
Hautecour	39	427 km NE	196	12.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 47 % · humidity 64 %
Vic-sous-Thil	21	455 km N	188	8	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 78 % · humidity 71 %
Givry	89	460 km N	181	10.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 91 % · humidity 79 %
Grignon	21	477 km N	186	6.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 61 % · humidity 71 %
Senaide	88	560 km NE	185	7.7	No daily shops	no figures

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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 Sauveterre'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
Roumengoux	09	67 km SW	172	15	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Fozières	34	72 km NE	194	14.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Lavaurette	82	108 km NW	214	12.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Rouffilhac	46	172 km NW	203	12.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Médard-de-Presque	46	164 km N	207	12.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Bazac	16	279 km NW	150	8.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

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