Taurinya

Pyrénées-Orientales · CC Conflent-Canigó · INSEE 66204

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

Partly served 42.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 93 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Taurinya (INSEE 66204) is in Pyrénées-Orientales (66), part of CC Conflent-Canigó. Population 328 (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/66204-taurinya

Vitality score

Vitality score 42.3/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 93 % of the 17,972 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.82	10	8.23
Housing mix	0.39	5	1.94

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 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”.

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (CHEZ DOMY). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (EL TALLER). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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)	1	CHEZ DOMY	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	EL TALLER	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 242 peak 2017: 336 2023: 328 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 329 (2012) → 328 (2023): -0.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 248 (1990) → 328 (2023): 32.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 258, of which 30.6 % second homes and 7.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 3.4 km NPharmacy — 3.4 km NWBakery — 3.6 km N 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 (Ria-Sirach): 3.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Taurinya): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Prades): 3.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Ria-Sirach): 3.4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Taurinya): 0 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 21.8

Days at or below 0 °C 6.2▸

Muggy days a summer 5.5

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 22 days a year at or above 30 °C and 6 days at or below 0 °C, over 12 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the TAURINYA weather station, 1.2 km away at 770 m; the village itself is at 543 m. ^[11]

The village sits 227 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at TAURINYA, 1.2 km away at 770 m, over 12 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 227 m above 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 597 mm of rain a year, spread over 69 days — about 8.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at TAURINYA, 1.2 km away at 770 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66204/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66204/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66204/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66204/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66161
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66204
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66149
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
La Vernaz	74	531 km NE	280	40.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 0 % · humidity 57 %
Asquins	89	555 km N	305	33.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 39 % · humidity 71 %
Boisset	43	329 km N	394	42.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 3 % · humidity 57 %
Les Martys	11	93 km N	309	45.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 26 % · humidity 64 %
Gumières	42	351 km N	325	27.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Chichilianne	38	354 km NE	336	43.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 0 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Les Martys	11	93 km N	309	45.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 26 % · humidity 64 %
Boisset	43	329 km N	394	42.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 3 % · humidity 57 %
Gumières	42	351 km N	325	27.9	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Chichilianne	38	354 km NE	336	43.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 0 %
La Vernaz	74	531 km NE	280	40.8	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 0 % · humidity 57 %
Asquins	89	555 km N	305	33.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 39 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Taurinya'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
Oms	66	23 km E	364	37.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Mendive	64	296 km W	172	27.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Villefranche-de-Conflent	66	4.9 km W	215	54.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Verdun-en-Lauragais	11	92 km N	290	27.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Piana	2A	511 km E	452	53.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Pietralba	2B	554 km E	507	55.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %

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