Estagel

Pyrénées-Orientales · CU Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole · INSEE 66071

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

Partly served 56.3/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 85 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Estagel (INSEE 66071) is in Pyrénées-Orientales (66), part of CU Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole. Population 2,160 (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/66071-estagel

Vitality score

Vitality score 56.3/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 85 % of the 9,110 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0.82	20	16.42
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.56	10	5.57
Housing mix	0.86	5	4.3

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 3 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 3 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE BUGUET LAETITIA · LES PAINS DE JUMY). ^[3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LCA). ^[3,4]

2 × Supermarket (CARREFOUR CONTACT · LCA). ^[3,4]

4 × Restaurant (YILDIZ OKAN · CAFE DU COMMERCE · CESE · SANTA MARIA ICE). ^[3,4]

3 × Café / bar (BAR DE L'AVENIR). ^[4]

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

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE ETIENNE GONY). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE IRENE JOLIOT-CURIE). ^[3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ALAIN MAHOU, MÉDECIN · JORIS BRAZ DA SILVA, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MARIE ARAGO). ^[3]

2 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE ARAGO · GYMNASE). ^[3]

1 × Bank (CAISSE REG CREDIT AGRICOLE MUT SUD MEDIT). ^[3]

4 × Hairdresser (SABRINA COIFFURE · CASSYCOIFF · SASU CHRISHAIR). ^[3,4]

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

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 3 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	BOULANGERIE PATISSERIE BUGUET LAETITIA · LES PAINS DE JUMY	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	LCA	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Supermarket	2	CARREFOUR CONTACT · LCA	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	4	YILDIZ OKAN · CAFE DU COMMERCE · CESE · SANTA MARIA ICE	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 10 [3,4]
Café / bar	3	BAR DE L'AVENIR	INSEE SIRENE 3 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE ETIENNE GONY	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE IRENE JOLIOT-CURIE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	ALAIN MAHOU, MÉDECIN · JORIS BRAZ DA SILVA, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE ROUVE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MARIE ARAGO	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	2	SALLE ARAGO · GYMNASE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	1	CAISSE REG CREDIT AGRICOLE MUT SUD MEDIT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Hairdresser	4	SABRINA COIFFURE · CASSYCOIFF · SASU CHRISHAIR	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Fuel station	2	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 2,201 2023: 2,160 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,950 (2012) → 2,160 (2023): 10.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 2,043 (1990) → 2,160 (2023): 5.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,297, of which 7 % second homes and 13.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Estagel): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Estagel): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Estagel): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Estagel): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Estagel): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 44.5▸

Days at or below 0 °C 7.6▸

Muggy days a summer 10.8▸

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 45 days a year at or above 30 °C and 8 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the ST PAUL FENOUIL weather station, 12 km away at 205 m; the village itself is at 75 m. ^[9]

The village sits 130 m below 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 11 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at ST PAUL FENOUIL, 12 km away at 205 m, over 10 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 130 m above 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 596 mm of rain a year, spread over 66 days — about 9 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at LATOUR-DE-FRANCE, 3.9 km away at 110 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66071/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66071/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66071/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66071/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66071
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
Arudy	64	257 km W	2,228	53.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 39 % · humidity 71 %
Lussac-les-Châteaux	86	433 km N	2,263	59.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 68 % · humidity 43 %
Dozulé	14	749 km N	2,244	58.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 73 % · humidity 50 %
Vatan	36	483 km N	1,994	54.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 46 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Amour	39	458 km NE	2,349	60.8	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 11 % · humidity 29 %
La Chapelle-la-Reine	77	617 km N	2,170	54.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 46 % · humidity 29 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Arudy	64	257 km W	2,228	53.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 39 % · humidity 71 %
Lussac-les-Châteaux	86	433 km N	2,263	59.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 68 % · humidity 43 %
Saint-Amour	39	458 km NE	2,349	60.8	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 36 % · winter 11 % · humidity 29 %
Vatan	36	483 km N	1,994	54.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 46 % · humidity 36 %
La Chapelle-la-Reine	77	617 km N	2,170	54.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 46 % · humidity 29 %
Dozulé	14	749 km N	2,244	58.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 73 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Estagel'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
Lespignan	34	68 km NE	3,414	42.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
La Redorte	11	53 km N	1,238	46.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Taillades	84	227 km NE	2,040	49.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Fabrezan	11	41 km N	1,306	51.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Maubec	84	231 km NE	1,915	58.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Nissan-lez-Enserune	34	67 km NE	4,124	48.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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