Bouchain

Nord · CA de la Porte du Hainaut · INSEE 59092

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

Partly served 47.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 38 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bouchain (INSEE 59092) is in Nord (59), part of CA de la Porte du Hainaut. Population 4,113 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Petites villes (level 3). ^[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/59092-bouchain

Vitality score

Vitality score 47.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 38 % of the 5,488 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	0.39	25	9.84
Social	0.58	20	11.6
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.46	10	4.61
Public & culture	0.22	5	1.11
Population trend	0.45	10	4.53
Housing mix	0.98	5	4.9

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 3 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 3 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (PATISSERIE DEVULDER · B AND D). ^[3,4]

2 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE SERVICE · BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE LEFEBVRE). ^[3,4]

2 × Supermarket (LIDL · CARREFOUR MARKET). ^[3,4]

1 × Cheese shop (fromagerie) (FROMAGERIE DU BASTION). ^[4]

4 × Restaurant (L'AUTHENTIQUE · LE VAUBAN · CHIPS N'CO · LA CREATION). ^[3,4]

3 × Café / bar. ^[4]

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

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE JEAN ZAY · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE ALBERT DOUAY). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE DE L'OSTREVANT). ^[3]

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CATHERINE DENIMAL, MÉDECIN · LOUISETTE PAUCHET-MASSE, MÉDECIN · NADIA RIGAUX, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

2 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE ESPOSITO TABARY · PHARMACIE LEGRAND). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (MEDIATHEQUE COMMUNAUTAIRE DE L'OSTREVANT). ^[3]

3 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF D OSTREVANT · COMPLEXE SPORTIF BD DE LA REPUBLIQUE · SALLE DE SPORTS JEAN ZAY INSTALLATIONS ECOLE). ^[3]

5 × Bank (CAISSE CREDIT MUTUEL BOUCHAIN · CAISSE LOCALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL · CAISSE REGIONALE DU CREDIT MUTUEL NORD EUROPE · AGENCE BOUCHAIN · CAISSE REG CREDIT AGRIC MUT NORD FRANCE). ^[3]

10 × Hairdresser (SONYA COIFF' EIRL DELBARGE · CLAIRE COIFFURE BEAUTE · FEE MOI BELLE). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	PATISSERIE DEVULDER · B AND D	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	2	BOUCHERIE SERVICE · BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE LEFEBVRE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	2	LIDL · CARREFOUR MARKET	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	1	FROMAGERIE DU BASTION	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	4	L'AUTHENTIQUE · LE VAUBAN · CHIPS N'CO · LA CREATION	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 7 [3,4]
Café / bar	3		INSEE SIRENE 3 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE ALBERT DOUAY	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE JEAN ZAY · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE ALBERT DOUAY	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE DE L'OSTREVANT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	CATHERINE DENIMAL, MÉDECIN · LOUISETTE PAUCHET-MASSE, MÉDECIN · NADIA RIGAUX, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy	2	PHARMACIE ESPOSITO TABARY · PHARMACIE LEGRAND	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	MEDIATHEQUE COMMUNAUTAIRE DE L'OSTREVANT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	3	COMPLEXE SPORTIF D OSTREVANT · COMPLEXE SPORTIF BD DE LA REPUBLIQUE · SALLE DE SPORTS JEAN ZAY INSTALLATIONS ECOLE	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	5	CAISSE CREDIT MUTUEL BOUCHAIN · CAISSE LOCALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL · CAISSE REGIONALE DU CREDIT MUTUEL NORD EUROPE · AGENCE BOUCHAIN · CAISSE REG CREDIT AGRIC MUT NORD FRANCE	INSEE BPE 5 [3]
Hairdresser	10	SONYA COIFF' EIRL DELBARGE · CLAIRE COIFFURE BEAUTE · FEE MOI BELLE	INSEE BPE 10 / INSEE SIRENE 13 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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: 3,916 peak 1975: 4,826 2023: 4,113 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 3,995 (2012) → 4,113 (2023): 3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 4,317 (1990) → 4,113 (2023): -4.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,933, of which 1 % second homes and 5.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, Pharmacy GP — 0.5 km E 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 (Bouchain): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bouchain): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Bouchain): 0.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Bouchain): 0.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Bouchain): 0.4 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 8

Days at or below 0 °C 46.1

Muggy days a summer 1.2

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 46 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the VALENCIENNES weather station, 11.3 km away at 50 m; the village itself is at 34 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at VALENCIENNES, 11.3 km away at 50 m, over 29 summers. ^[9]

An average of 713 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 5.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at BOUCHAIN, 2 km away at 35 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59092/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59092/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59092/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59092/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59092
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
Hochfelden	67	350 km SE	4,038	59.5	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Marlenheim	67	353 km SE	4,185	56.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Hœrdt	67	367 km SE	4,570	53.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Bédée	35	448 km SW	4,662	52.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Freneuse	78	185 km SW	4,505	47.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Longages	31	786 km S	3,392	41.2	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 89 % · humidity 50 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Freneuse	78	185 km SW	4,505	47.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Hochfelden	67	350 km SE	4,038	59.5	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Marlenheim	67	353 km SE	4,185	56.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Hœrdt	67	367 km SE	4,570	53.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel more humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 79 %
Bédée	35	448 km SW	4,662	52.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Longages	31	786 km S	3,392	41.2	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 89 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Bouchain'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
Marlenheim	67	353 km SE	4,185	56.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Bédée	35	448 km SW	4,662	52.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Le Plessis-Belleville	60	138 km S	4,009	59	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Ham	80	62 km S	4,378	53.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Roye	80	75 km SW	5,833	65.9	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Marie-aux-Chênes	57	228 km SE	4,519	56.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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