Vinça

Pyrénées-Orientales · CC Conflent-Canigó · INSEE 66230

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

Partly served 51.3/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 73 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Vinça (INSEE 66230) is in Pyrénées-Orientales (66), part of CC Conflent-Canigó. Population 2,260 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/66230-vinca

Vitality score

Vitality score 51.3/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 73 % of the 8,813 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	0.34	25	8.55
Social	0.63	20	12.58
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.39	10	3.93
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.87	10	8.66
Housing mix	0.8	5	4

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 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 2 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 1 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (L'EPI VINCANAIS). ^[3,4]

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

4 × Restaurant (LA PETITE AUBERGE DE MARIE · PIZZ'TTORIA · MENJA I CALLA · LE PICOULAT). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (CAFE DE FRANCE). ^[4]

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

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (WILFRID BREANT, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE VINCA). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF DU CANIGOU). ^[3]

1 × Swimming pool (SITE D ACTIVITES AQUATIQUES ET NAUTIQUES LE LAC DES ESCOUMES). ^[3]

4 × Hairdresser (LE POSITIF · L.M COIFF). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING LES RIVES DU LAC DE VINCA 66). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie), 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 2 × Restaurant.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	L'EPI VINCANAIS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	MACYVA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	4	LA PETITE AUBERGE DE MARIE · PIZZ'TTORIA · MENJA I CALLA · LE PICOULAT	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 9 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	CAFE DE FRANCE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE JEAN ALLOITEAU	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	WILFRID BREANT, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE VINCA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	MÉDIATHÈQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF DU CANIGOU	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	1	SITE D ACTIVITES AQUATIQUES ET NAUTIQUES LE LAC DES ESCOUMES	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	4	LE POSITIF · L.M COIFF	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	1	CAMPING LES RIVES DU LAC DE VINCA 66	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,622 2023: 2,260 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,947 (2012) → 2,260 (2023): 16.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,655 (1990) → 2,260 (2023): 36.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,472, of which 10 % second homes and 16 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

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

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

GP (Vinça): 0 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Vinça): 0 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Vinça): 0.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 36.4

Days at or below 0 °C 46.8

Muggy days a summer 5.4

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 36 days a year at or above 30 °C and 47 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the EUS weather station, 7 km away at 321 m; the village itself is at 261 m. ^[9]

The village sits 60 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. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 5 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at EUS, 7 km away at 321 m, over 25 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 60 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.26 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 592 mm of rain a year, spread over 64 days — about 9.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at VINCA, 1.9 km away at 251 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66230/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66230/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66230/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 66230/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 66230
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
Dambach-la-Ville	67	737 km NE	2,165	58.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 81 % · humidity 79 %
Chilleurs-aux-Bois	45	604 km N	2,084	52.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 67 % · winter 88 %
Loriol-du-Comtat	84	255 km NE	2,486	54.1	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Rieux-Minervois	11	71 km N	1,957	45.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 65 % · humidity 64 %
Trouillas	66	23 km E	2,324	54	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 65 % · humidity 50 %
Tavel	30	232 km NE	2,083	56.8	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Trouillas	66	23 km E	2,324	54	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 59 % · winter 65 % · humidity 50 %
Rieux-Minervois	11	71 km N	1,957	45.2	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 77 % · winter 65 % · humidity 64 %
Tavel	30	232 km NE	2,083	56.8	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Loriol-du-Comtat	84	255 km NE	2,486	54.1	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Chilleurs-aux-Bois	45	604 km N	2,084	52.6	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 67 % · winter 88 %
Dambach-la-Ville	67	737 km NE	2,165	58.6	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 56 % · winter 81 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Vinça'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
Rieux-Volvestre	31	128 km NW	2,639	62.7	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Frontonas	38	395 km NE	2,123	47.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Romans	38	354 km NE	1,897	52.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jean-en-Royans	26	344 km NE	2,874	64.4	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Le Bousquet-d'Orb	34	128 km NE	1,599	58	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Martres-Tolosane	31	138 km NW	2,387	60	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %

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