Mont-Louis

Identity

Mont-Louis (INSEE 66117) is in Pyrénées-Orientales (66), part of CC Pyrénées Catalanes. Population 153 (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/66117-mont-louis

Vitality score

Vitality score 32.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 95 % of the 14,226 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.

Services

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

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LE PETIT GOURMAND). ^[4,3]

5 × Restaurant (ZAHRAOUI KARIMA · BAR LE REGENT · LA TABLE DE LA CITADELLE · LES REMPARTS · L'ENTRETEMPS). ^[4,3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE). ^[4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (MONT LOUIS AP). ^[4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[4]

1 × Hotel (HOTEL LES BONES HORES). ^[4,3]

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

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

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 185 (2012) → 153 (2023): -17.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 200 (1990) → 153 (2023): -23.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 218, of which 56 % second homes and 7.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (La Cabanasse): 1.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Mont-Louis): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Bolquère): 4.9 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Bolquère): 5.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Mont-Louis): 0.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

An average of 2 days a year at or above 30 °C and 102 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LA CASSAGNE- S H E M weather station, 2.1 km away at 1,151 m; the village itself is at 1,573 m. ^[11]

The village sits 422 m above 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, 11.4 km away at 1,320 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 253 m below 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 702 mm of rain a year, spread over 89 days — about 7.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MONT LOUIS, 0.2 km away at 1,600 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

What property sold for

22 flats sold over the same window, at a median of 92,500 € — 1,495 € per m². ^[12]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66117/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
4. INSEE BPE 2025
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66117/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66117/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66117/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 66027
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 66117
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 66020
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
12. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025