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Planèzes

Pyrénées-Orientales · CC Agly Fenouillèdes · INSEE 66143

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

No daily shops 13.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 53 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Planèzes (INSEE 66143) is in Pyrénées-Orientales (66), part of CC Agly Fenouillèdes. Population 99 (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/66143-planezes

Vitality score

Vitality score 13.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 53 % of the 10,519 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 trend0.74107.38
Housing mix0.5752.83

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 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”.

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). [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. [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]
Library1BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALEINSEE BPE 1 [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: 116 2023: 99 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 106 (2012) → 99 (2023): -6.6 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 80 (1990) → 99 (2023): 23.8 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 83, of which 21.7 % second homes and 15.7 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 2.8 km E (Latour-de-France)Primary school — 3.0 km E (Latour-de-France)GP — 3.1 km E (Latour-de-France)Pharmacy — 3.1 km E (Latour-de-France)Food shop — 5.5 km NW (Maury)
Bakery — 2.8 km EPrimary school — 3.0 km EGP — 3.1 km EPharmacy — 3.1 km EFood shop — 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 (Latour-de-France): 2.8 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Maury): 5.5 km to the north-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Latour-de-France): 3.1 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Latour-de-France): 3.1 km to the east (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Latour-de-France): 3 km to the east (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 40 days a year at or above 30 °C and 9 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. [10]

Measured at the ST PAUL FENOUIL weather station, 6.8 km away at 205 m; the village itself is at 139 m. [10]

The village sits 66 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 9 days a summer. [10]

Humidity measured at ST PAUL FENOUIL, 6.8 km away at 205 m, over 10 summers. [10]

That station sits 66 m above 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 596 mm of rain a year, spread over 66 days — about 9 mm on a day it rains. [10]

Rainfall measured at LATOUR-DE-FRANCE, 2.6 km away at 110 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 — 66143/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66143/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66143/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66143/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 66096
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 66107
  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
Coursan-en-Othe10598 km N10010.7No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 22 % · humidity 50 %
Fenouillet6620 km W10014.2No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 45 % · humidity 57 %
Taurize1136 km N10817.2No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Fédry70597 km NE9211.6No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 0 % · humidity 57 %
Limbrassac0969 km NW11716.4No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 38 % · humidity 64 %
Faverolles52611 km N10211.4No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 0 % · humidity 43 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Fenouillet6620 km W10014.2No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 45 % · humidity 57 %
Taurize1136 km N10817.2No daily shopsCooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Limbrassac0969 km NW11716.4No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 38 % · humidity 64 %
Fédry70597 km NE9211.6No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 0 % · humidity 57 %
Coursan-en-Othe10598 km N10010.7No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 44 % · winter 22 % · humidity 50 %
Faverolles52611 km N10211.4No daily shopsCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 0 % · humidity 43 %

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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 Planèzes'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
Rieux-en-Val1136 km N849.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Tordères6625 km SE18723.6Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Rasiguères660.8 km W16516.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Puginier1188 km NW15318.7No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Jusix47286 km NW967No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Caixas6621 km S13414.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %