Les Angles

Identity

Les Angles (INSEE 66004) is in Pyrénées-Orientales (66), part of CC Pyrénées Catalanes. Population 597 (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/66004-les-angles

Vitality score

Vitality score 70.4/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 100 % of the 17,106 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.

Services

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

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (DUPAIN · LE PAIN DES ANGLES). ^[3,4]

2 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE CHARLY). ^[3,4]

3 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (PAILLUSSON · SPAR). ^[3,4]

25 × Restaurant (X'TREME PIZZA · LE SURF BURGER · AUBERGE DU CARLIT · PYRENNE · HBJP). ^[3,4]

5 × Café / bar (LA TARTANE · O CAVEAU · LE YES · LA LOUVE). ^[4]

4 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ALICE JACOMY, MÉDECIN · CECILE PATISSIER, MÉDECIN · AUDREY WOELFING, MÉDECIN · NINON BERVILLER, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

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

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE INTERCOMMUNALE DES ANGLES). ^[3]

1 × Cinema (LE CASTEILL). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (JOAN COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

3 × Hotel (HOTEL LE COQ D'OR · HOTEL RESTAURANT LE LLARET · LE YAKA). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant, 1 × Hotel.

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire). ^[3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

Population 541 (2012) → 597 (2023): 10.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 528 (1990) → 597 (2023): 13.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 4,015, of which 91.9 % second homes and 0.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Les Angles): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Les Angles): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Les Angles): 1.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Les Angles): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Matemale): 3.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

An average of 0 days a year at or above 30 °C and 165 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the FORMIGUERES weather station, 4.7 km away at 1,530 m; the village itself is at 1,652 m. ^[10]

The village sits 122 m above 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at FORMIGUERES, 5.3 km away at 1,495 m, over 19 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 157 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 789 mm of rain a year, spread over 107 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at FORMIGUERES, 4.7 km away at 1,530 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66004/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66004/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66004/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66004/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 66004
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 66105
10. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024