Canals

Tarn-et-Garonne · CC Grand Sud Tarn-et-Garonne · INSEE 82028

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

Few services 39.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 70 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Canals (INSEE 82028) is in Tarn-et-Garonne (82), part of CC Grand Sud Tarn-et-Garonne. Population 798 (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/82028-canals

Vitality score

Vitality score 39.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 70 % of the 15,654 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	0.75	10	7.48
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.71

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 2 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 × Bakery (boulangerie) (FOURNIL DE BOULANGE). ^[3,4]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CHRISTIAN AZEAU, MÉDECIN · JORGE LUIS SILVERA LAZA, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

3 × Hairdresser (CHRIS'TYLE · LA PARENTHESE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	FOURNIL DE BOULANGE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 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 ELEMENTAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	CHRISTIAN AZEAU, MÉDECIN · JORGE LUIS SILVERA LAZA, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE CANALS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	3	CHRIS'TYLE · LA PARENTHESE COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 3 / 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: 325 2023: 798 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 703 (2012) → 798 (2023): 13.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 467 (1990) → 798 (2023): 70.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 349, of which 2.9 % second homes and 6.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Food shop — 3.0 km S 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 (Canals): 0.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Grisolles): 3 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Canals): 0.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Canals): 0.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Canals): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 35

Days at or below 0 °C 45.7

Muggy days a summer 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 35 days a year at or above 30 °C and 46 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the SAVENES_MAN weather station, 8.5 km away at 117 m; the village itself is at 133 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at SAVENES, 9.8 km away at 156 m, over 23 summers. ^[10]

An average of 678 mm of rain a year, spread over 97 days — about 7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at MONBEQUI, 6.4 km away at 99 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 82028/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 82028/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 82028/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 82028/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 82028
INSEE BPE 2025 — 82075
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
Warloy-Baillon	80	691 km N	743	42.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 97 % · humidity 71 %
Pargny-lès-Reims	51	630 km N	497	38.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 69 % · humidity 71 %
Montagny-lès-Beaune	21	446 km NE	777	38.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 96 % · humidity 71 %
Sainte-Ouenne	79	319 km NW	789	33.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 69 % · humidity 79 %
Le Boulay	37	419 km N	810	31.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 96 % · humidity 71 %
Cléty	62	759 km N	805	31.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 77 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sainte-Ouenne	79	319 km NW	789	33.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 69 % · humidity 79 %
Le Boulay	37	419 km N	810	31.1	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 96 % · humidity 71 %
Montagny-lès-Beaune	21	446 km NE	777	38.3	Few services	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 96 % · humidity 71 %
Pargny-lès-Reims	51	630 km N	497	38.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 69 % · humidity 71 %
Warloy-Baillon	80	691 km N	743	42.2	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 97 % · humidity 71 %
Cléty	62	759 km N	805	31.1	Few services	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 21 % · winter 77 % · 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 Canals'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
Ternand	69	346 km NE	762	44.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Valderiès	81	78 km E	827	49.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Busque	81	54 km E	715	22.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Thomas-en-Royans	26	344 km NE	569	30.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Montret	71	434 km NE	763	50.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Varennes	82	17 km E	627	38.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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