Espira-de-Conflent

Pyrénées-Orientales · CC Conflent-Canigó · INSEE 66070

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school.

Few services 26.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 77 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Espira-de-Conflent (INSEE 66070) is in Pyrénées-Orientales (66), part of CC Conflent-Canigó. Population 227 (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 26.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 77 % of the 16,726 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	25	0
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.58	5	2.88

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 of 3

Lodging 1 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”.

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

1 × Café / bar (CAFE L'APULIT). ^[4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING LE CANIGOU). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Campsite.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	1	CAFE L'APULIT	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	ESPIRA DE CONFLENT AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	1	CAMPING LE CANIGOU	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 162 2023: 227 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 169 (2012) → 227 (2023): 34.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 132 (1990) → 227 (2023): 72 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 184, of which 21.2 % second homes and 22.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.8 km NBakery — 4.0 km NEGP — 4.1 km NEPharmacy — 4.1 km NEFood shop — 4.2 km NE 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 (Vinça): 4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Vinça): 4.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Vinça): 4.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Vinça): 4.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Marquixanes): 2.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 32.3

Days at or below 0 °C 53.3

Muggy days a summer 4.8

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 32 days a year at or above 30 °C and 53 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the EUS weather station, 4.5 km away at 321 m; the village itself is at 339 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at EUS, 4.5 km away at 321 m, over 25 summers. ^[10]

An average of 525 mm of rain a year, spread over 63 days — about 8.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at EUS, 4.5 km away at 321 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 — 66070/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66070/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66070/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66070/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66230
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66103
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
Dancevoir	52	619 km N	198	17.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 73 %
Saint-Simon	16	395 km NW	233	19.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Ingrandes	36	459 km N	294	20.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 81 % · humidity 71 %
Boutenac-Touvent	17	413 km NW	230	19.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 77 % · humidity 71 %
Minot	21	592 km N	186	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 97 % · humidity 71 %
Melay	52	642 km NE	240	16.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 77 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Simon	16	395 km NW	233	19.3	No daily shops	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Boutenac-Touvent	17	413 km NW	230	19.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 77 % · humidity 71 %
Ingrandes	36	459 km N	294	20.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 81 % · humidity 71 %
Minot	21	592 km N	186	18.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 97 % · humidity 71 %
Dancevoir	52	619 km N	198	17.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 69 % · winter 73 %
Melay	52	642 km NE	240	16.4	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 77 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Espira-de-Conflent'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
Loiré-sur-Nie	17	432 km NW	283	9.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Liourdres	19	264 km N	271	14.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Forgues	31	149 km NW	214	18.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Auzas	31	145 km NW	222	15.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Mauran	31	135 km NW	201	23.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
La Chapelle-Pouilloux	79	437 km NW	171	10.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %

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