Cases-de-Pène

Pyrénées-Orientales · CU Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole · INSEE 66041

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

Partly served 43/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 71 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Cases-de-Pène (INSEE 66041) is in Pyrénées-Orientales (66), part of CU Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole. Population 973 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 43/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 71 % of the 14,462 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.72

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (CHEZ POUPOU · LA CASES DE TONY). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (CASES DE PENE AP). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (STUDIO'W). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	2	CHEZ POUPOU · LA CASES DE TONY	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	CASES DE PENE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	STUDIO'W	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 483 2023: 973 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 834 (2012) → 973 (2023): 16.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 406 (1990) → 973 (2023): 139.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 465, of which 2.8 % second homes and 11.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 3.6 km SWGP — 3.7 km SEBakery — 4.0 km EPharmacy — 4.0 km E 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 (Espira-de-l'Agly): 4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Calce): 3.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Baixas): 3.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Espira-de-l'Agly): 4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Cases-de-Pène): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 39.4

Days at or below 0 °C 8.4▸

Muggy days a summer 15▸

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 39 days a year at or above 30 °C and 8 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the PERPIGNAN weather station, 8.4 km away at 42 m; the village itself is at 53 m. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 15 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at PERPIGNAN, 8.4 km away at 42 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

An average of 540 mm of rain a year, spread over 53 days — about 10.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at PERPIGNAN, 8.4 km away at 42 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66041/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66041/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66041/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66041/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66069
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66030
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66014
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66041
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
Parisot	81	137 km NW	1,033	31.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 50 % · humidity 36 %
Mondrepuis	02	805 km N	1,028	33	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 10 % · winter 26 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Martial-d'Artenset	24	324 km NW	943	38.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 50 % · humidity 57 %
Moulin-Neuf	24	331 km NW	986	43.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 55 % · humidity 64 %
Mondavezan	31	151 km W	880	42.9	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 51 % · humidity 29 %
Reyniès	82	169 km NW	872	36	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 47 % · humidity 36 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Parisot	81	137 km NW	1,033	31.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 50 % · humidity 36 %
Mondavezan	31	151 km W	880	42.9	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 51 % · humidity 29 %
Reyniès	82	169 km NW	872	36	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 47 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Martial-d'Artenset	24	324 km NW	943	38.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 50 % · humidity 57 %
Moulin-Neuf	24	331 km NW	986	43.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 55 % · humidity 64 %
Mondrepuis	02	805 km N	1,028	33	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 10 % · winter 26 % · humidity 0 %

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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 Cases-de-Pène'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
Passa	66	22 km S	1,118	28.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Utelle	06	383 km E	805	33.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Tresserre	66	24 km S	1,166	28.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Montesquieu-des-Albères	66	30 km S	1,353	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Jean-Lasseille	66	23 km S	1,622	36.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Villemolaque	66	22 km S	1,278	37.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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