Le Tech

Pyrénées-Orientales · CC du Haut Vallespir · INSEE 66206

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school.

No daily shops 12.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 45 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Le Tech (INSEE 66206) is in Pyrénées-Orientales (66), part of CC du Haut Vallespir. Population 95 (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/66206-le-tech

Vitality score

Vitality score 12.4/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 45 % of the 10,121 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.27	10	2.66
Housing mix	0	5	0

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant (LE BISTROT DU TECH). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LE TECH AP). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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	1	LE BISTROT DU TECH	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	LE TECH AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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: 152 2023: 95 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 103 (2012) → 95 (2023): -7.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 124 (1990) → 95 (2023): -23.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 125, of which 56 % second homes and 12 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 1.7 km SEBakery — 3.0 km EGP — 5.2 km WFood shop — 5.4 km WPharmacy — 6.3 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-Laurent-de-Cerdans): 3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste): 5.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste): 5.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Saint-Laurent-de-Cerdans): 6.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Serralongue): 1.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 22.3

Days at or below 0 °C 54.2

Muggy days a summer 3.8

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 54 days at or below 0 °C, over 12 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LE TECH-EDF weather station, 0.3 km away at 532 m; the village itself is at 528 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at SERRALONGUE, 1.6 km away at 700 m, over 18 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 172 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 937 mm of rain a year, spread over 83 days — about 11.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at LE TECH-EDF, 0.3 km away at 532 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 — 66206/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66206/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66206/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66206/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66179
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66150
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66194
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
Usclades-et-Rieutord	07	293 km NE	106	16.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
Rougon	04	349 km NE	115	25.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 0 %
Cassuéjouls	12	259 km N	107	11.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 64 % · humidity 71 %
La Panouse	48	271 km N	94	10.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 3 % · humidity 71 %
Villeperdrix	26	316 km NE	103	14.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 47 % · humidity 71 %
Montjay	05	329 km NE	104	15.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 24 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Cassuéjouls	12	259 km N	107	11.9	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 64 % · humidity 71 %
La Panouse	48	271 km N	94	10.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 3 % · humidity 71 %
Usclades-et-Rieutord	07	293 km NE	106	16.3	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
Villeperdrix	26	316 km NE	103	14.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 47 % · humidity 71 %
Montjay	05	329 km NE	104	15.8	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 72 % · winter 24 % · humidity 71 %
Rougon	04	349 km NE	115	25.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 90 % · winter 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 Le Tech'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
Menestreau	58	560 km N	96	4.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Gijounet	81	145 km N	115	6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
La Burbanche	01	452 km NE	98	12.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Soucirac	46	268 km N	102	6.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Sailly	71	486 km N	75	5.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Sery	89	586 km N	79	16.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

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