Oms

Pyrénées-Orientales · CC des Aspres · INSEE 66126

A school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop.

Few services 37.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 85 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Oms (INSEE 66126) is in Pyrénées-Orientales (66), part of CC des Aspres. Population 364 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 37.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 85 % of the 18,057 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	25	0
Social	0.48	20	9.5
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.6	5	3.01

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 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”.

A school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (LE RELAIS DE L'ORME · LA CREPITANTE · RELAIS DE L'ORME). ^[3,4]

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

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

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 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	3	LE RELAIS DE L'ORME · LA CREPITANTE · RELAIS DE L'ORME	INSEE BPE 3 / 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 PUBLIQUE	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	OMS AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 160 2023: 364 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 326 (2012) → 364 (2023): 11.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 228 (1990) → 364 (2023): 59.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 271, of which 19.9 % second homes and 11.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Pharmacy — 5.6 km SBakery — 5.7 km SFood shop — 5.9 km SEGP — 6.5 km SE 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 (Reynès): 5.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Reynès): 5.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Céret): 6.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Reynès): 5.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Oms): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 26.6

Days at or below 0 °C 6.9▸

Muggy days a summer 7.4

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 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 7 days at or below 0 °C, over 14 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CAIXAS weather station, 5.1 km away at 347 m; the village itself is at 500 m. ^[11]

The village sits 153 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 7 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at CAIXAS, 5.1 km away at 347 m, over 14 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 153 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 659 mm of rain a year, spread over 65 days — about 10.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CAIXAS, 5.1 km away at 347 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 — 66126/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66126/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66126/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66126/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66160
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66049
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66126
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
Montiers-sur-Saulx	55	695 km N	365	24.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 50 % · humidity 57 %
Cazouls-d'Hérault	34	124 km NE	420	33.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 78 % · humidity 79 %
Velzic	15	274 km N	401	29.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %
Montmaur	11	117 km NW	356	34.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Azay-sur-Indre	37	537 km N	363	31.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 46 % · humidity 64 %
Semur-en-Vallon	72	630 km N	428	28.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 54 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Montmaur	11	117 km NW	356	34.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Cazouls-d'Hérault	34	124 km NE	420	33.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 78 % · humidity 79 %
Velzic	15	274 km N	401	29.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %
Azay-sur-Indre	37	537 km N	363	31.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 46 % · humidity 64 %
Semur-en-Vallon	72	630 km N	428	28.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 67 % · winter 54 % · humidity 57 %
Montiers-sur-Saulx	55	695 km N	365	24.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 50 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Oms'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
Malaussène	06	391 km NE	326	33	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 86 %
Bélesta	66	21 km N	270	29.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Girac	46	274 km N	355	26.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Salsigne	11	92 km N	400	28.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Labécède-Lauragais	11	110 km NW	420	31.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Quirc	09	127 km NW	366	44.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %

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