Fourques

Pyrénées-Orientales · CC des Aspres · INSEE 66084

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

Few services 38.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 48 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Fourques (INSEE 66084) is in Pyrénées-Orientales (66), part of CC des Aspres. Population 1,347 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/66084-fourques

Vitality score

Vitality score 38.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 48 % of the 12,384 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.2	20	3.93
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.2	10	1.97
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.91	5	4.57

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 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) (AU PAIN GOURMAND). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (SPAR). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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

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

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE FOURQUES). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (TIFF EN QUATRE). ^[3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	AU PAIN GOURMAND	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	SPAR	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	1	PHARMACIE DES ASPRES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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 DE FOURQUES	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	1	TIFF EN QUATRE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 687 2023: 1,347 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,169 (2012) → 1,347 (2023): 15.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 673 (1990) → 1,347 (2023): 100.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 695, of which 4.3 % second homes and 12.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, Pharmacy GP — 4.0 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 (Fourques): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Fourques): 0.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Trouillas): 4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Fourques): 0.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

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

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 53.3▸

Days at or below 0 °C 4.4▸

Muggy days a summer 13.8▸

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 53 days a year at or above 30 °C and 4 days at or below 0 °C, over 27 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the VIVES weather station, 5.2 km away at 261 m; the village itself is at 133 m. ^[10]

The village sits 128 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 14 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at VIVES, 5.2 km away at 261 m, over 26 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 128 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 639 mm of rain a year, spread over 62 days — about 10.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at VIVES, 5.2 km away at 261 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 — 66084/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66084/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66084/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66084/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66084
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66217
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
Vougy	42	406 km N	1,546	37.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 43 % · humidity 43 %
Pezens	11	86 km NW	1,611	43.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 78 % · humidity 71 %
Neulise	42	386 km N	1,344	47.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 5 % · winter 26 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Nazaire	30	233 km NE	1,312	35.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 66 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Rémy-en-Rollat	03	404 km N	1,774	39	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 14 % · humidity 7 %
Gerbéviller	54	719 km NE	1,316	37.9	Few services	no figures

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Pezens	11	86 km NW	1,611	43.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 78 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Nazaire	30	233 km NE	1,312	35.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 66 % · humidity 57 %
Neulise	42	386 km N	1,344	47.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 5 % · winter 26 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Rémy-en-Rollat	03	404 km N	1,774	39	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 14 % · humidity 7 %
Vougy	42	406 km N	1,546	37.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 28 % · winter 43 % · humidity 43 %
Gerbéviller	54	719 km NE	1,316	37.9	Few services	no figures

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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 Fourques'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
Brouilla	66	10 km E	1,572	32.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Maureillas-las-Illas	66	10 km S	3,006	41.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Jean-Pla-de-Corts	66	7.9 km S	2,311	60.3	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Florent	2B	534 km E	1,694	64.4	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Villelongue-dels-Monts	66	12 km SE	1,976	44.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Génis-des-Fontaines	66	13 km E	3,059	41.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %

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