Saint-Pierre-dels-Forcats

Identity

Saint-Pierre-dels-Forcats (INSEE 66188) is in Pyrénées-Orientales (66), part of CC Pyrénées Catalanes. Population 260 (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/66188-saint-pierre-dels-forcats

Vitality score

Vitality score 37.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 92 % of the 17,407 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.

Services

A school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (LA CABANE DU CAMBRE · LE SLALOM). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE DE SAINT-PIERRE-DELS-FORCATS GRAND'RUE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (AURELL' COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 264 (2012) → 260 (2023): -1.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 185 (1990) → 260 (2023): 40.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 654, of which 76.6 % second homes and 5.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (La Cabanasse): 0.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (La Cabanasse): 0.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Bolquère): 5.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Bolquère): 5.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Pierre-dels-Forcats): 0.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

An average of 2 days a year at or above 30 °C and 102 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LA CASSAGNE- S H E M weather station, 2.9 km away at 1,151 m; the village itself is at 1,575 m. ^[11]

The village sits 424 m above 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at STE LEOCADIE, 10.3 km away at 1,320 m, over 21 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 255 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 702 mm of rain a year, spread over 89 days — about 7.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at MONT LOUIS, 1.7 km away at 1,600 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66188/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66188/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66188/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66188/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 66027
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 66020
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 66188
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024