Saint-Hippolyte

Pyrénées-Orientales · CU Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole · INSEE 66176

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

Few services 37.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 16 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Hippolyte (INSEE 66176) is in Pyrénées-Orientales (66), part of CU Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole. Population 3,126 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[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/66176-saint-hippolyte

Vitality score

Vitality score 37.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 16 % of the 6,884 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	0.2	25	5.12
Social	0.39	20	7.77
Education	0.22	10	2.21
Health	0.11	10	1.11
Public & culture	0.22	5	1.11
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.88	5	4.38

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LA CHOCOLATINE · LES DELICES DE FLO). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LE PETIT PANIER 66). ^[3,4]

6 × Restaurant (LE BANIAN, POINT CONTACT · CHEZ GASTON · O REBON FAVORABLE · GMEVENT). ^[3,4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE ROGER TORREILLES). ^[3]

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

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE DE L'ÉTANG). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE POLYVALENTE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (AU COIFFEUR). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 4 × Restaurant, 2 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Café / bar, GP (médecin généraliste). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	LA CHOCOLATINE · LES DELICES DE FLO	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	LE PETIT PANIER 66	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	6	LE BANIAN, POINT CONTACT · CHEZ GASTON · O REBON FAVORABLE · GMEVENT	INSEE BPE 6 / INSEE SIRENE 9 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE ROGER TORREILLES	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE HIPPOLYTAINE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE DE L'ÉTANG	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	SALLE POLYVALENTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1	AU COIFFEUR	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 1,033 2023: 3,126 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,719 (2012) → 3,126 (2023): 15 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,616 (1990) → 3,126 (2023): 93.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,609, of which 6.2 % second homes and 8.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Pharmacy Primary school — 0.5 km NWGP — 2.2 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 (Saint-Hippolyte): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Hippolyte): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque): 2.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Hippolyte): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Hippolyte): 0.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 26.3

Days at or below 0 °C 14▸

Muggy days a summer 19.9▸

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 26 days a year at or above 30 °C and 14 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the TORREILLES weather station, 3.5 km away at 7 m; the village itself is at 4 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 20 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at TORREILLES, 3.5 km away at 7 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 507 mm of rain a year, spread over 51 days — about 9.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at TORREILLES, 3.5 km away at 7 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 — 66176/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66176/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66176/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66176/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66176
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66180
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
Champcueil	91	638 km N	2,854	47.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 45 % · humidity 0 %
Berlaimont	59	827 km N	3,159	37.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 57 % · humidity 0 %
Magnac-sur-Touvre	16	387 km NW	3,255	32.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 0 %
Barbazan-Debat	65	236 km W	3,478	30.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 68 % · humidity 7 %
Héricy	77	630 km N	2,507	41.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 36 % · humidity 0 %
Châtenois-les-Forges	90	612 km NE	2,608	45.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 47 % · humidity 0 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Barbazan-Debat	65	236 km W	3,478	30.3	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 68 % · humidity 7 %
Magnac-sur-Touvre	16	387 km NW	3,255	32.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 0 %
Châtenois-les-Forges	90	612 km NE	2,608	45.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 79 % · winter 47 % · humidity 0 %
Héricy	77	630 km N	2,507	41.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 36 % · humidity 0 %
Champcueil	91	638 km N	2,854	47.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 45 % · humidity 0 %
Berlaimont	59	827 km N	3,159	37.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 57 % · humidity 0 %

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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 Saint-Hippolyte'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
Claira	66	3.0 km S	4,922	48	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Villelongue-de-la-Salanque	66	6.6 km S	3,335	40.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Torreilles	66	4.1 km SE	3,753	52.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Vescovato	2B	530 km E	3,406	57.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Nazaire	66	13 km S	2,779	56.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Salses-le-Château	66	6.7 km NW	3,965	50.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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