Théza

Pyrénées-Orientales · CC Sud-Roussillon · INSEE 66208

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

Partly served 43.5/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 49 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Théza (INSEE 66208) is in Pyrénées-Orientales (66), part of CC Sud-Roussillon. Population 2,126 (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/66208-theza

Vitality score

Vitality score 43.5/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 49 % of the 9,185 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.39	20	7.87
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.2	10	1.97
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.7

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (EPICERIE DE LA PLACE). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LANA-MAR). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CECILIA D'ANDREA, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE LES LECTURES DE LÉONTINE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (LYCEE TECH AGRICOLE). ^[3]

4 × Hairdresser (CHANGER D'HAIR · LE STYLE PAR GAELLE · L'ATELIER D'AURELIEN). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Pharmacy. ^[4,3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	EPICERIE DE LA PLACE	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	LANA-MAR	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE MARCEL PAGNOL	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE MARCEL PAGNOL	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	CECILIA D'ANDREA, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE MUNICIPALE LES LECTURES DE LÉONTINE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	LYCEE TECH AGRICOLE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	4	CHANGER D'HAIR · LE STYLE PAR GAELLE · L'ATELIER D'AURELIEN	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
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: 554 2023: 2,126 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,602 (2012) → 2,126 (2023): 32.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,013 (1990) → 2,126 (2023): 109.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,035, of which 3 % second homes and 6.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 1.4 km S 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 (Théza): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Théza): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Théza): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Corneilla-del-Vercol): 1.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Théza): 0.2 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 51.9▸

Days at or below 0 °C 16.1▸

Muggy days a summer 15▸

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 52 days a year at or above 30 °C and 16 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the CANOHES weather station, 10 km away at 73 m; the village itself is at 14 m. ^[10]

The village sits 59 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 15 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at PERPIGNAN, 12.7 km away at 42 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 611 mm of rain a year, spread over 57 days — about 10.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at CANET-EN-ROUSSILLON, 5.9 km away at 16 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66208/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66208/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66208/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66208/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66208
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66059
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
Biard	86	485 km NW	1,910	54.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 13 % · winter 64 % · humidity 7 %
Grignon	73	432 km NE	2,099	48.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 32 % · humidity 0 %
Lucenay	69	390 km N	2,070	50.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 57 % · humidity 43 %
Boissy-l'Aillerie	95	719 km N	2,120	56.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 58 % · humidity 0 %
Châtillon	69	385 km N	2,252	53.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 64 % · humidity 7 %
Guerville	78	708 km N	2,052	46.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 69 % · humidity 0 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Châtillon	69	385 km N	2,252	53.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 46 % · winter 64 % · humidity 7 %
Lucenay	69	390 km N	2,070	50.9	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 57 % · humidity 43 %
Grignon	73	432 km NE	2,099	48.1	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 51 % · winter 32 % · humidity 0 %
Biard	86	485 km NW	1,910	54.4	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 13 % · winter 64 % · humidity 7 %
Guerville	78	708 km N	2,052	46.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 69 % · humidity 0 %
Boissy-l'Aillerie	95	719 km N	2,120	56.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 58 % · 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 Théza'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
Boujan-sur-Libron	34	85 km N	3,619	51.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Corneilla-del-Vercol	66	1.5 km S	2,696	56.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Baho	66	13 km NW	3,231	45.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Villeneuve-la-Rivière	66	14 km NW	1,360	38.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Lespignan	34	73 km N	3,414	42.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Maureillas-las-Illas	66	20 km SW	3,006	41.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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