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Bissezeele

Nord · CC des Hauts de Flandre · INSEE 59083

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.

No daily shops 15.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 34 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bissezeele (INSEE 59083) is in Nord (59), part of CC des Hauts de Flandre. Population 239 (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/59083-bissezeele

Vitality score

Vitality score 15.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 34 % of the 17,009 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0250
Social0200
Education0100
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.84108.43
Housing mix0.9654.79

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6
Eating out 0 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”.

No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 199 peak 2017: 247 2023: 239 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 228 (2012) → 239 (2023): 4.8 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 178 (1990) → 239 (2023): 34.3 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 97, of which 2.1 % second homes and 5.2 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmGP — 2.8 km S (Esquelbecq)Bakery — 2.9 km N (Socx)Primary school — 2.9 km NW (Crochte)Food shop — 3.0 km SW (Zegerscappel)Pharmacy — 3.2 km SE (Esquelbecq)
GP — 2.8 km SBakery — 2.9 km NPrimary school — 2.9 km NWFood shop — 3.0 km SWPharmacy — 3.2 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 (Socx): 2.9 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Zegerscappel): 3 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Esquelbecq): 2.8 km to the south (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Esquelbecq): 3.2 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Crochte): 2.9 km to the north-west (straight line). [11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 27 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. [12]

Measured at the STEENVOORDE weather station, 14.4 km away at 42 m; the village itself is at 28 m. [12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [12]

Humidity measured at STEENVOORDE, 14.4 km away at 42 m, over 18 summers. [12]

An average of 767 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. [12]

Rainfall measured at KILLEM, 13.4 km away at 7 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59083/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59083/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59083/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59083/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 59570
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 59666
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 59210
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 59162
  12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

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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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Ivergny6275 km S23814.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Murville54300 km SE23914.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 55 %
Landange57411 km SE23914.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 30 % · humidity 100 %
Méhoncourt54391 km SE24013.2No daily shopsno figures
Hallignicourt52308 km SE2388.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Tessel14289 km SW24316.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Ivergny6275 km S23814.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Tessel14289 km SW24316.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Murville54300 km SE23914.7No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.summer 87 % · winter 55 %
Hallignicourt52308 km SE2388.2No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Méhoncourt54391 km SE24013.2No daily shopsno figures
Landange57411 km SE23914.1No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 30 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Bissezeele'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Tessel14289 km SW24316.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Sorel-en-Vimeu80106 km S23513.9No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Yonval80101 km SW24313.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Damblainville14286 km SW22713.5No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Warlus80115 km S23012.3No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Estrées-la-Campagne14283 km SW24517.6No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %