Le Perthus

Pyrénées-Orientales · CC du Vallespir · INSEE 66137

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

Partly served 41.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 84 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Perthus (INSEE 66137) is in Pyrénées-Orientales (66), part of CC du Vallespir. Population 555 (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/66137-le-perthus

Vitality score

Vitality score 41.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 84 % of the 17,496 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.5	20	10
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.38	10	3.75
Housing mix	0.76	5	3.79

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

8 × Restaurant (LES COCOTTES DE LA MONTAGNE · LE REGENT · AL PASO · CHEZ GRAND MERE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ENRIC FREIXA, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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)	1	CATALOGNE PRIMEUR	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	8	LES COCOTTES DE LA MONTAGNE · LE REGENT · AL PASO · CHEZ GRAND MERE	INSEE BPE 8 / INSEE SIRENE 12 [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)	1	ENRIC FREIXA, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	LE PERTHUS AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE LE PERTHUS	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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 862 2023: 555 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 580 (2012) → 555 (2023): -4.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 634 (1990) → 555 (2023): -12.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 363, of which 12.1 % second homes and 12.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 5.4 km NWBakery — 5.5 km NW 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 (Maureillas-las-Illas): 5.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Le Perthus): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Le Perthus): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Maureillas-las-Illas): 5.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Le Perthus): 0 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 43.1

Days at or below 0 °C 8▸

Muggy days a summer 9.2

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 43 days a year at or above 30 °C and 8 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LE PERTHUS weather station, 1.1 km away at 295 m; the village itself is at 287 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 9 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at LE PERTHUS, 1.1 km away at 295 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 783 mm of rain a year, spread over 66 days — about 11.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LE PERTHUS, 1.1 km away at 295 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 — 66137/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66137/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66137/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66137/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66106
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66137
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
Manzac-sur-Vern	24	344 km NW	535	40	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 78 % · humidity 79 %
Pujols	33	350 km NW	524	40.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 66 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Remy-en-Bouzemont-Saint-Genest-et-Isson	51	699 km N	470	38	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 42 % · humidity 50 %
Sanxay	86	503 km NW	548	36.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 53 % · humidity 57 %
Ramerupt	10	682 km N	417	41.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 36 % · winter 26 %
Puycasquier	32	223 km NW	420	38.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 39 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Puycasquier	32	223 km NW	420	38.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 39 % · humidity 64 %
Manzac-sur-Vern	24	344 km NW	535	40	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 78 % · humidity 79 %
Pujols	33	350 km NW	524	40.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 66 % · humidity 86 %
Sanxay	86	503 km NW	548	36.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 53 % · humidity 57 %
Ramerupt	10	682 km N	417	41.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 36 % · winter 26 %
Saint-Remy-en-Bouzemont-Saint-Genest-et-Isson	51	699 km N	470	38	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 42 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Le Perthus'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
Causses-et-Veyran	34	114 km N	613	30.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Fontiès-d'Aude	11	87 km N	560	36	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Couthures-sur-Garonne	47	320 km NW	365	38.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Montbrun-des-Corbières	11	83 km N	343	30.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Latour-de-France	66	38 km NW	1,043	34.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Puimisson	34	112 km N	1,225	36.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

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