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Nyer

Pyrénées-Orientales · CC Conflent-Canigó · INSEE 66123

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 9.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 14 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Nyer (INSEE 66123) is in Pyrénées-Orientales (66), part of CC Conflent-Canigó. Population 148 (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/66123-nyer

Vitality score

Vitality score 9.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 14 % of the 13,969 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture0.3251.58
Population trend0.62106.21
Housing mix0.0350.17

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 0 of 1
Schools 0 of 3
Health 0 of 4
Public services 1 of 1
Culture 0 of 2
Sport 0 of 2
Everyday services 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (NYER AP). [3]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale1NYER APINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 137 peak 2007: 178 2023: 148 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 160 (2012) → 148 (2023): -7.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 132 (1990) → 148 (2023): 12.1 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 147, of which 48.3 % second homes and 5.4 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmBakery — 2.5 km N (Olette)Food shop — 2.5 km N (Olette)Primary school — 2.5 km N (Olette)Pharmacy — 2.5 km N (Olette)GP — 4.3 km N (Jujols)
Bakery — 2.5 km NFood shop — 2.5 km NPrimary school — 2.5 km NPharmacy — 2.5 km NGP — 4.3 km N 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 (Olette): 2.5 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Olette): 2.5 km to the north (straight line). [8]

GP (Jujols): 4.3 km to the north (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Olette): 2.5 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Olette): 2.5 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 5 days a year at or above 30 °C and 71 days at or below 0 °C, over 14 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the OLETTE weather station, 2.4 km away at 615 m; the village itself is at 727 m. [10]

The village sits 112 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. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at VERNET LES BAINS, 9.2 km away at 630 m, over 18 summers. [10]

That station sits 97 m below 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 550 mm of rain a year, spread over 75 days — about 7.3 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at OLETTE, 2.4 km away at 615 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66123/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66123/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66123/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66123/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 66125
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 66090
  10. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Montbel48257 km NE1466.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 22 % · humidity 93 %
Rigaud06415 km NE1657.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 24 % · humidity 86 %
Frasseto2A560 km E13413.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 22 % · humidity 93 %
Bazus-Aure65161 km W14710No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Le Vey14741 km N13912No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 38 %
Zalana2B584 km E15313.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 8 % · humidity 29 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Bazus-Aure65161 km W14710No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Montbel48257 km NE1466.5No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 22 % · humidity 93 %
Rigaud06415 km NE1657.8No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 24 % · humidity 86 %
Frasseto2A560 km E13413.6No daily shopsWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 22 % · humidity 93 %
Zalana2B584 km E15313.9No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 95 % · winter 8 % · humidity 29 %
Le Vey14741 km N13912No daily shopsSimilar summers, milder winters.summer 90 % · winter 38 %

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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 Nyer'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Madranges19329 km N1665.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Belvis1139 km NW16610.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Burgalays31140 km W1247.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
La Grande-Fosse88746 km NE12612.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Belmont67759 km NE1698.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Bellefosse67758 km NE17019.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %