Bas-Lieu

Nord · CC Coeur de l'Avesnois · INSEE 59050

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

No daily shops 19/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 35 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bas-Lieu (INSEE 59050) is in Nord (59), part of CC Coeur de l'Avesnois. Population 348 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 19/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 35 % of the 18,020 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	5	0
Population trend	0.5	10	4.97
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.87

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 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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

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, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	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	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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 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: 372 2023: 348 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 336 (2012) → 348 (2023): 3.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 349 (1990) → 348 (2023): -0.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 159, of which 1.3 % second homes and 5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 0.5 km SWFood shop — 1.0 km SWPrimary school — 1.3 km SWGP — 1.5 km SWPharmacy — 6.7 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 (Avesnes-sur-Helpe): 0.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Avesnes-sur-Helpe): 1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Avesnes-sur-Helpe): 1.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Sains-du-Nord): 6.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Avesnes-sur-Helpe): 1.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 7.8

Days at or below 0 °C 50.5

Muggy days a summer 1.1

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 8 days a year at or above 30 °C and 51 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the ST-HILAIRE-SUR-HELPE weather station, 1.8 km away at 185 m; the village itself is at 181 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at ST-HILAIRE-SUR-HELPE, 1.8 km away at 185 m, over 20 summers. ^[10]

An average of 817 mm of rain a year, spread over 132 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at ST-HILAIRE-SUR-HELPE, 1.8 km away at 185 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59050/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59050/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59050/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59050/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59036
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59525
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
Suzay	27	199 km SW	343	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Courtavon	68	381 km SE	343	21.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Maizet	14	339 km W	360	23.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Ferrières	54	245 km SE	361	24.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Vironvay	27	221 km SW	334	24.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Olive	01	463 km S	357	24.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 41 % · winter 96 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Suzay	27	199 km SW	343	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Vironvay	27	221 km SW	334	24.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Ferrières	54	245 km SE	361	24.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Maizet	14	339 km W	360	23.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Courtavon	68	381 km SE	343	21.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Olive	01	463 km S	357	24.8	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 41 % · winter 96 %

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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 Bas-Lieu'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
Suzay	27	199 km SW	343	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Courtavon	68	381 km SE	343	21.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Hilaire-le-Petit	51	101 km S	356	22.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Fresney-le-Vieux	14	337 km W	331	25.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Corbeil-Cerf	60	163 km SW	357	23.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Nurlu	80	67 km W	373	19.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %

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