Le Barcarès

Pyrénées-Orientales · CU Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole · INSEE 66017

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

Served 62/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 82 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Barcarès (INSEE 66017) is in Pyrénées-Orientales (66), part of CU Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole. Population 6,109 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/66017-le-barcares

Vitality score

Vitality score 62/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Grocery (épicerie / supérette)).

Better served than 82 % of the 3,874 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	0.59	25	14.76
Social	1	20	19.91
Education	0.22	10	2.21
Health	0.43	10	4.27
Public & culture	0.31	5	1.54
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0	5	0

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 3 of 3

Lodging 2 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]

10 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LE FOURNIL · LA FEE GOURMANDE · LA BAGUETTE · CHEZ JORDAN-BOULANGERIE NAUTICA). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (LA CUISINE DU POULETOU). ^[3,4]

4 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (ASSA.66 · COMPLEXE MARINA ATLANTIDE · LCCSB · HELLOR). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (BARC). ^[3,4]

79 × Restaurant (LE LAMPARO · PIZZERIA DE LA GRANDE PLAGE · LA TOURTIERE DU PORT · SARL LAURIE · L'ALIZE CATALAN). ^[3,4]

19 × Café / bar (L'AXURIT · MARINA RESTO-CLUB · ANCHOR BAR OZ CAFE · LA PAIX · BOOGIE BAR). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE JEAN MOULIN). ^[3]

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

4 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CHRISTOPHE JOURDAIN, MÉDECIN · GEORGES ELGRISHI, MÉDECIN · MARIE-ANGELE CLEMENTE, MÉDECIN · PHILIPPE PALOMER, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

2 × Post office / agence postale (LE BARCARES GRANDE PLAGE AP · LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE LE BARCARÈS). ^[3]

1 × Bank (BANQUE POPULAIRE DU SUD). ^[3]

12 × Hairdresser (ZAZOU COIFFURE · M.L.B. CREATION · DELPHINE COIFFURE · CLEM'S COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

3 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

4 × Hotel (THE ORIGINALS - HOTEL RELAX'OTEL · HOTEL DE LA MER · LA CASA BLANCA · HOTEL DE LA PLAGE). ^[3,4]

9 × Campsite (AIROTEL CAMPING LE FLORIDE ET L'EMBOUCHURE · CAMPING LE CALIFORNIA · CAMPING LA PRESQU'ILE · YELLOH VILLAGE LE PRE CATALAN). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 4 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 23 × Restaurant, 1 × Pharmacy, 1 × Hairdresser.

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	10	LE FOURNIL · LA FEE GOURMANDE · LA BAGUETTE · CHEZ JORDAN-BOULANGERIE NAUTICA	INSEE BPE 10 / INSEE SIRENE 13 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	LA CUISINE DU POULETOU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	4	ASSA.66 · COMPLEXE MARINA ATLANTIDE · LCCSB · HELLOR	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 13 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	BARC	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Restaurant	79	LE LAMPARO · PIZZERIA DE LA GRANDE PLAGE · LA TOURTIERE DU PORT · SARL LAURIE · L'ALIZE CATALAN	INSEE BPE 79 / INSEE SIRENE 144 [3,4]
Café / bar	19	L'AXURIT · MARINA RESTO-CLUB · ANCHOR BAR OZ CAFE · LA PAIX · BOOGIE BAR	INSEE SIRENE 19 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE JEAN MOULIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE JEAN MOULIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	4	CHRISTOPHE JOURDAIN, MÉDECIN · GEORGES ELGRISHI, MÉDECIN · MARIE-ANGELE CLEMENTE, MÉDECIN · PHILIPPE PALOMER, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DU LYDIA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	2	LE BARCARES GRANDE PLAGE AP · LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE LE BARCARÈS	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	1	BANQUE POPULAIRE DU SUD	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Hairdresser	12	ZAZOU COIFFURE · M.L.B. CREATION · DELPHINE COIFFURE · CLEM'S COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 12 / INSEE SIRENE 15 [3,4]
Fuel station	3	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Hotel	4	THE ORIGINALS - HOTEL RELAX'OTEL · HOTEL DE LA MER · LA CASA BLANCA · HOTEL DE LA PLAGE	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 33 [3,4]
Campsite	9	AIROTEL CAMPING LE FLORIDE ET L'EMBOUCHURE · CAMPING LE CALIFORNIA · CAMPING LA PRESQU'ILE · YELLOH VILLAGE LE PRE CATALAN	INSEE BPE 9 / INSEE SIRENE 10 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,197 2023: 6,109 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 4,080 (2012) → 6,109 (2023): 49.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 2,422 (1990) → 6,109 (2023): 152.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 16,677, of which 77.2 % second homes and 0.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 1.7 km N 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 (Le Barcarès): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Le Barcarès): 0.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Le Barcarès): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Le Barcarès): 1.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Le Barcarès): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 26.3

Days at or below 0 °C 14▸

Muggy days a summer 19.9▸

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 26 days a year at or above 30 °C and 14 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the TORREILLES weather station, 6 km away at 7 m; the village itself is at 2 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 20 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at TORREILLES, 6 km away at 7 m, over 30 summers. ^[9]

An average of 507 mm of rain a year, spread over 51 days — about 9.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at TORREILLES, 6 km away at 7 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Grocery (épicerie / supérette)

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66017/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66017/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66017/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66017/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66017
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
Gruissan	11	36 km N	5,032	61.8	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Lacanau	33	410 km NW	5,739	68.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 7 %
Calvi	2B	468 km E	5,788	65.7	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 86 % · humidity 7 %
La Croix-Valmer	83	291 km E	3,855	54.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 68 % · humidity 0 %
Villard-de-Lans	38	324 km NE	4,328	62.4	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron	17	492 km NW	6,633	68.2	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 96 % · humidity 29 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Gruissan	11	36 km N	5,032	61.8	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
La Croix-Valmer	83	291 km E	3,855	54.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 68 % · humidity 0 %
Villard-de-Lans	38	324 km NE	4,328	62.4	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 0 %
Lacanau	33	410 km NW	5,739	68.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 7 %
Calvi	2B	468 km E	5,788	65.7	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 86 % · humidity 7 %
Saint-Pierre-d'Oléron	17	492 km NW	6,633	68.2	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 96 % · humidity 29 %

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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 Le Barcarès'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
Sainte-Marie-la-Mer	66	7.0 km S	4,952	57.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-de-Seignanx	40	368 km W	6,238	56.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle	64	378 km W	7,264	66.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Vescovato	2B	525 km E	3,406	57.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Nazaire	66	14 km S	2,779	56.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Salses-le-Château	66	11 km NW	3,965	50.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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