Sauto

Pyrénées-Orientales · CC Pyrénées Catalanes · INSEE 66192

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

No daily shops 5.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 4 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sauto (INSEE 66192) is in Pyrénées-Orientales (66), part of CC Pyrénées Catalanes. Population 102 (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/66192-sauto

Vitality score

Vitality score 5.9/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 4 % of the 10,792 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	25	0
Social	0	20	0
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.5	10	5
Housing mix	0	5	0

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 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]

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

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 121 2023: 102 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 95 (2012) → 102 (2023): 7.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 102 (1990) → 102 (2023): 0 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 173, of which 67.6 % second homes and 5.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 2.3 km EPrimary school — 2.6 km WBakery — 3.3 km SWGP — 7.1 km WPharmacy — 7.3 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 (La Cabanasse): 3.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Fontpédrouse): 2.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Bolquère): 7.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Bolquère): 7.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Mont-Louis): 2.6 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 1.6▸

Days at or below 0 °C 101.5▸

Muggy days a summer 0

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 2 days a year at or above 30 °C and 102 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the LA CASSAGNE- S H E M weather station, 0.4 km away at 1,151 m; the village itself is at 1,556 m. ^[12]

The village sits 405 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at FORMIGUERES, 11.9 km away at 1,495 m, over 19 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 61 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 759 mm of rain a year, spread over 90 days — about 8.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at LA CASSAGNE- S H E M, 0.4 km away at 1,151 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66192/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66192/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66192/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66192/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66027
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66080
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66020
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66117
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
Sainte-Marguerite-Lafigère	07	264 km NE	111	8.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Pontis	04	405 km NE	96	11.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 78 %
Connac	12	172 km N	99	5.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 59 % · winter 11 %
San-Gavino-di-Fiumorbo	2B	589 km E	99	0	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 3 % · humidity 93 %
Cellier-du-Luc	07	279 km NE	91	4.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Laval-du-Tarn	48	227 km NE	108	3.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Connac	12	172 km N	99	5.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.summer 59 % · winter 11 %
Laval-du-Tarn	48	227 km NE	108	3.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 38 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Marguerite-Lafigère	07	264 km NE	111	8.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Cellier-du-Luc	07	279 km NE	91	4.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 69 % · humidity 100 %
Pontis	04	405 km NE	96	11.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 78 %
San-Gavino-di-Fiumorbo	2B	589 km E	99	0	No daily shops	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 3 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Sauto'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
Fayet-Ronaye	63	342 km N	116	2.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Mazan-l'Abbaye	07	292 km NE	120	0.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Lafarre	43	298 km NE	86	6.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Chanterelle	15	323 km N	99	1.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Étienne-du-Vigan	43	286 km NE	95	4.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
La Chaulme	63	358 km NE	118	13	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %

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