Latour-de-Carol

Pyrénées-Orientales · CC Pyrénées Cerdagne · INSEE 66095

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

Partly served 42.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 88 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Latour-de-Carol (INSEE 66095) is in Pyrénées-Orientales (66), part of CC Pyrénées Cerdagne. Population 480 (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/66095-latour-de-carol

Vitality score

Vitality score 42.9/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 88 % of the 17,890 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	0.5	25	12.47
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.82	10	8.19
Housing mix	0	5	0

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 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 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”.

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Restaurant (RESTAURANT EL CASAL). ^[3,4]

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

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

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

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF). ^[3]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING L'ORATOIRE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette).

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[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)	2	VIVAL	INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 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	1	RESTAURANT EL CASAL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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	LATOUR DE CAROL AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF	INSEE BPE 1 [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 SIRENE 3 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	1	CAMPING L'ORATOIRE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 359 2023: 480 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 416 (2012) → 480 (2023): 15.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 364 (1990) → 480 (2023): 31.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 588, of which 53.4 % second homes and 5.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Pharmacy — 1.4 km SEGP — 1.8 km EBakery — 4.0 km EFood shop — 5.1 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 (Ur): 4 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Ur): 5.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Enveitg): 1.8 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Enveitg): 1.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Latour-de-Carol): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 2.5▸

Days at or below 0 °C 83.7

Muggy days a summer 0

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 3 days a year at or above 30 °C and 84 days at or below 0 °C, over 12 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ANGOUSTRINE weather station, 5.8 km away at 1,381 m; the village itself is at 1,249 m. ^[11]

The village sits 132 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at STE LEOCADIE, 10.4 km away at 1,320 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 71 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 613 mm of rain a year, spread over 77 days — about 8 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LATOUR DE CAROL, 0.3 km away at 1,246 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66095/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66095/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66095/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66095/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66218
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66066
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66095
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
Lacoste	84	314 km NE	468	36.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 3 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %
Soulan	09	73 km NW	400	34.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Roquebrun	34	148 km NE	601	53.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 8 % · humidity 43 %
Chézery-Forens	01	524 km NE	433	45.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Moux-en-Morvan	58	553 km N	538	36.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 54 %
Hèches	65	138 km NW	577	34.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 95 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Soulan	09	73 km NW	400	34.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Hèches	65	138 km NW	577	34.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 95 % · humidity 71 %
Roquebrun	34	148 km NE	601	53.4	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 0 % · winter 8 % · humidity 43 %
Lacoste	84	314 km NE	468	36.7	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 3 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %
Chézery-Forens	01	524 km NE	433	45.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Moux-en-Morvan	58	553 km N	538	36.4	Few services	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 79 % · winter 54 %

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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 Latour-de-Carol'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
Ur	66	4.0 km E	382	44.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Angoustrine-Villeneuve-des-Escaldes	66	5.8 km E	542	16.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Lalouvesc	07	364 km NE	388	50.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Err	66	12 km E	716	54.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Le Hohwald	67	785 km NE	521	47.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Lanuéjols	30	221 km NE	341	36.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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