Vabre

Tarn · CC Sidobre Vals et Plateaux · INSEE 81305

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

Partly served 54.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 94 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Vabre (INSEE 81305) is in Tarn (81), part of CC Sidobre Vals et Plateaux. Population 726 (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 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/81305-vabre

Vitality score

Vitality score 54.1/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 94 % of the 16,245 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	0.5	25	12.47
Social	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.63	10	6.32
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.28	10	2.83
Housing mix	0.45	5	2.25

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (AU PANIER VABRAIS · VIVAL). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE GRILLON DE L'HORLOGE). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (CAFE COURRECH). ^[4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ETIENNE CORNU, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

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

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE VABRE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE POLYVALENTE). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). ^[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)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	AU PANIER VABRAIS · VIVAL	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	1	LE GRILLON DE L'HORLOGE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	CAFE COURRECH	INSEE SIRENE 1 [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)	1	ETIENNE CORNU, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE PIRIOU POPOFF	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	MÉDIATHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE VABRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	SALLE POLYVALENTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	2		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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

A market is recorded here, but no source gives the day. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 1,285 2023: 726 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 804 (2012) → 726 (2023): -9.7 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 927 (1990) → 726 (2023): -21.7 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 652, of which 27.5 % second homes and 13 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Bakery — 7.1 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 (Lacrouzette): 7.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Vabre): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Vabre): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Vabre): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Vabre): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.5

Days at or below 0 °C 24

Muggy days a summer 4.3

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 23 days a year at or above 30 °C and 24 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the MONTREDON-LABESSONNIE weather station, 6.7 km away at 566 m; the village itself is at 370 m. ^[11]

The village sits 196 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. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at MONTREDON-LABESSONNIE, 6.7 km away at 566 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 196 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 1,235 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 10 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at VABRE, 0.6 km away at 403 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 — 81305/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2026-08— https://data.datatourisme.fr/13/29041c26-0341-366f-a5ab-168c53370458— “Marché hebdomadaire - Vabre”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81305/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81305/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 81305/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81128
INSEE BPE 2025 — 81305
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
Saint-Amans-des-Cots	12	112 km N	709	53.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 53 % · humidity 71 %
Villefranche-du-Périgord	24	150 km NW	674	63.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Laroquebrou	15	143 km N	785	71.2	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 54 % · winter 26 %
Allanche	15	176 km N	773	62.4	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 7 % · humidity 71 %
Daumazan-sur-Arize	09	109 km SW	804	70	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 51 % · winter 95 %
Bourdeaux	26	238 km NE	670	74.5	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 23 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Daumazan-sur-Arize	09	109 km SW	804	70	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 51 % · winter 95 %
Saint-Amans-des-Cots	12	112 km N	709	53.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 53 % · humidity 71 %
Laroquebrou	15	143 km N	785	71.2	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 54 % · winter 26 %
Villefranche-du-Périgord	24	150 km NW	674	63.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Allanche	15	176 km N	773	62.4	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 7 % · humidity 71 %
Bourdeaux	26	238 km NE	670	74.5	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 23 % · 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 Vabre'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
Villefranche-du-Périgord	24	150 km NW	674	63.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Mézières-en-Brenne	36	361 km N	941	65.4	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
La Bachellerie	24	190 km NW	891	46	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Vouvant	85	407 km NW	829	62.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Jaujac	07	180 km NE	1,199	60	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Vigeois	19	201 km N	1,300	49.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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