Bolquère

Identity

Bolquère (INSEE 66020) is in Pyrénées-Orientales (66), part of CC Pyrénées Catalanes. Population 816 (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/66020-bolquere

Vitality score

Vitality score 65.5/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 99 % of the 15,532 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

3 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA BOULANGERIE DE P2 · PIERO 2000 · LA CERISE SUR LE GATEAU). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (INTERMARCHE). ^[3,4]

7 × Restaurant (JECY 2000 · SOA THEOGENIE · HOTEL LASSUS CAL VALBOUR · LE VIKING · SAS GALA). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (CAFE BOLH). ^[4]

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

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (MICHEL COSTE, MÉDECIN · ELODIE LANDES, MÉDECIN · LEOCADIE REIG, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE 2000). ^[3,4]

2 × Post office / agence postale (BOLQUERE A PYRENEES 2000 AP · BOLQUERE AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE ASSOCIATIVE : ENDAVENT). ^[3]

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

2 × Hotel (L'ANCIENNE AUBERGE · HOTEL LASSUS CAL VALBOUR). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Nursery school (maternelle). ^[4,3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 781 (2012) → 816 (2023): 4.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 617 (1990) → 816 (2023): 32.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 3,502, of which 87.4 % second homes and 1.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Bolquère): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bolquère): 2.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Bolquère): 1.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Bolquère): 2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Bolquère): 0.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

An average of 2 days a year at or above 30 °C and 107 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the LA CASSAGNE- S H E M weather station, 5.7 km away at 1,151 m; the village itself is at 1,620 m. ^[9]

The village sits 469 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. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at STE LEOCADIE, 8.4 km away at 1,320 m, over 21 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 300 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 702 mm of rain a year, spread over 89 days — about 7.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at MONT LOUIS, 3.6 km away at 1,600 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66020/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66020/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66020/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66020/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 66020
9. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024