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Pézilla-de-Conflent

Pyrénées-Orientales · CC Agly Fenouillèdes · INSEE 66139

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

No daily shops 4.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 6 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Pézilla-de-Conflent (INSEE 66139) is in Pyrénées-Orientales (66), part of CC Agly Fenouillèdes. Population 46 (2023). [1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). [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/66139-pezilla-de-conflent

Vitality score

Vitality score 4.5/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 6 % of the 4,250 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 & culture050
Population trend0.38103.85
Housing mix050

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 0 of 1
Culture 0 of 2
Sport 1 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 × Swimming pool (BAIGNADE EL MOULI). [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, Post office / agence postale, 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 postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool1BAIGNADE EL MOULIINSEE BPE 1 [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: 75 2023: 46 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 58 (2012) → 46 (2023): -20.7 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 52 (1990) → 46 (2023): -11.5 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 71, of which 66.2 % second homes and 2.8 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmFood shop — 3.4 km W (Sournia)GP — 3.4 km W (Sournia)Primary school — 3.5 km W (Sournia)Pharmacy — 8.0 km N (Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet)Bakery — 8.2 km N (Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet)
Food shop — 3.4 km WGP — 3.4 km WPrimary school — 3.5 km WPharmacy — 8.0 km NBakery — 8.2 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 (Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet): 8.2 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Sournia): 3.4 km to the west (straight line). [9]

GP (Sournia): 3.4 km to the west (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet): 8 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Sournia): 3.5 km to the west (straight line). [9]

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 23 days a year at or above 30 °C and 29 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the SOURNIA weather station, 3.2 km away at 515 m; the village itself is at 295 m. [10]

The village sits 220 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. [10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at ST PAUL DE FENOUILLET, 9.2 km away at 300 m, over 19 summers. [10]

An average of 722 mm of rain a year, spread over 87 days — about 8.3 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at SOURNIA, 3.2 km away at 515 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [10]

What property sold for

11 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 81,000 € — 1,000 € per m² of built surface. [11]

The median across Pyrénées-Orientales is 2,334 € per m², so this commune sits below it. [11]

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 — 66139/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66139/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66139/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66139/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 66187
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 66198
  10. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
  11. DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Villard-Reymond38381 km NE4611.8No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 0 % · humidity 64 %
Lacapelle-Escroux81114 km N483.2No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 70 % · humidity 79 %
Arnac-sur-Dourdou12116 km N474.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 71 %
Gouaux-de-Luchon31153 km W435.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 0 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Paul-d'Oueil31158 km W466.4No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 24 % · humidity 64 %
Gincla1113 km W465.2No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 88 % · humidity 79 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Gincla1113 km W465.2No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 88 % · humidity 79 %
Lacapelle-Escroux81114 km N483.2No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 70 % · humidity 79 %
Arnac-sur-Dourdou12116 km N474.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 71 %
Gouaux-de-Luchon31153 km W435.1No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 0 % · humidity 64 %
Saint-Paul-d'Oueil31158 km W466.4No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 24 % · humidity 64 %
Villard-Reymond38381 km NE4611.8No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 0 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Pézilla-de-Conflent'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
Boisset3476 km N4311.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Orliac24248 km NW438.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Massac1121 km N3010.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Muracciole2B553 km E3311.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Bardou24265 km NW4410.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Fosse666.8 km NW5219.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %