Ponteilla

Pyrénées-Orientales · CU Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole · INSEE 66145

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

Partly served 40.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 24 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ponteilla (INSEE 66145) is in Pyrénées-Orientales (66), part of CU Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole. Population 3,101 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/66145-ponteilla

Vitality score

Vitality score 40.1/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 24 % of the 6,929 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	0.07	25	1.84
Social	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.22	10	2.21
Public & culture	0.22	5	1.11
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.95	5	4.77

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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 × Butcher (boucherie) (SARL CAN RAYNAL). ^[4,3]

4 × Restaurant (LENNY'S · LA CAZ A NOU · LA CASA PIZZA). ^[4,3]

2 × Café / bar. ^[3]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE ANTONI GAUDI). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE L'ONCLE JULES · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE LA BRESSOLA). ^[4]

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (JACQUES NOGUES, MÉDECIN). ^[4]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DES CLOCHERS). ^[4,3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[4]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE PONTEILLA). ^[4]

4 × Hairdresser (LE STUDIO COIFFURE · CECILIA COIFFURE). ^[4,3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie), 3 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	SARL CAN RAYNAL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [4,3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Supermarket	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Restaurant	4	LENNY'S · LA CAZ A NOU · LA CASA PIZZA	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [4,3]
Café / bar	2		INSEE SIRENE 2 [3]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE ANTONI GAUDI	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE L'ONCLE JULES · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE LA BRESSOLA	INSEE BPE 2 [4]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	JACQUES NOGUES, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DES CLOCHERS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [4,3]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE PONTEILLA	INSEE BPE 1 [4]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hairdresser	4	LE STUDIO COIFFURE · CECILIA COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [4,3]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [4,3]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,107 2023: 3,101 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,798 (2012) → 3,101 (2023): 10.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,521 (1990) → 3,101 (2023): 103.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,493, of which 2.3 % second homes and 7.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Bakery — 3.4 km W 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 (Llupia): 3.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Ponteilla): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Ponteilla): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Ponteilla): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Ponteilla): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 51.9▸

Days at or below 0 °C 21.3

Muggy days a summer 11.5▸

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 52 days a year at or above 30 °C and 21 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CANOHES weather station, 3.4 km away at 73 m; the village itself is at 106 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 12 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at THUIR, 6.9 km away at 110 m, over 14 summers. ^[10]

An average of 617 mm of rain a year, spread over 58 days — about 10.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CANOHES, 3.4 km away at 73 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 — 66145/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66145/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66145/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66145/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66101
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66145
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
Montmeyran	26	301 km NE	2,960	56	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 78 % · humidity 29 %
Seiches-sur-le-Loir	49	604 km NW	2,844	51	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 10 % · winter 70 % · humidity 29 %
Saint-Priest-Taurion	87	380 km N	2,901	49.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 39 % · humidity 50 %
Margaux-Cantenac	33	388 km NW	2,845	54.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 92 % · humidity 64 %
Mussidan	24	332 km NW	2,771	59.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 50 % · humidity 79 %
Béligneux	01	403 km NE	3,535	42.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 38 % · humidity 36 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Montmeyran	26	301 km NE	2,960	56	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 78 % · humidity 29 %
Mussidan	24	332 km NW	2,771	59.5	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 41 % · winter 50 % · humidity 79 %
Saint-Priest-Taurion	87	380 km N	2,901	49.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 26 % · winter 39 % · humidity 50 %
Margaux-Cantenac	33	388 km NW	2,845	54.4	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 92 % · humidity 64 %
Béligneux	01	403 km NE	3,535	42.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 85 % · winter 38 % · humidity 36 %
Seiches-sur-le-Loir	49	604 km NW	2,844	51	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 10 % · winter 70 % · humidity 29 %

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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 Ponteilla'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
Saint-Pargoire	34	116 km NE	2,501	68.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Lespignan	34	78 km N	3,414	42.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Aramon	30	206 km NE	4,081	51.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %
Trouillas	66	1.8 km S	2,324	54	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Nissan-lez-Enserune	34	78 km N	4,124	48.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Comps	30	199 km NE	1,688	41.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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