Bourbourg

Nord · CU de Dunkerque · INSEE 59094

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

Served 62.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 82 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bourbourg (INSEE 59094) is in Nord (59), part of CU de Dunkerque. Population 6,931 (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/59094-bourbourg

Vitality score

Vitality score 62.2/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 82 % of the 3,471 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	0.53	25	13.19
Social	0.84	20	16.9
Education	0.53	10	5.28
Health	0.68	10	6.77
Public & culture	0.22	5	1.11
Population trend	0.48	10	4.75
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.87

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 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 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]

3 × Bakery (boulangerie) (FACEL). ^[3,4]

3 × Butcher (boucherie) (SARL FERME DU GROMMENDYCK · BOUCHERIE THOREZ POIVRE · AU PETIT BOUCHER). ^[3,4]

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

3 × Supermarket (SABOURG · ALDI MARCHE BOIS GRENIER · CARREFOUR MARKET). ^[3,4]

15 × Restaurant (VANSUYPEENE JEANNINE · AUBERGE DE LA BRIQUE D OR · FOLIE FRITES · BOURBOURG KEBAB). ^[3,4]

5 × Café / bar (LE SAINT ANTOINE · LE CENTRAL · LE CAFE DES SPORTS). ^[4]

3 × Primary school (élémentaire) (GROUPE SCOLAIRE YVETTE ET JEAN DUBOIS · ECOLE PRIMAIRE JEAN-MICHEL BILLAUT · ECOLE PRIMAIRE LAMARTINE). ^[3]

2 × Collège (COLLEGE JEAN JAURES · COLLEGE PRIVE NOTRE-DAME). ^[3]

7 × GP (médecin généraliste) (AMANDINE LEGRAND, MÉDECIN · KÉVIN MARTINACHE, MÉDECIN · FABRICE VANTOMME, MÉDECIN · LUCIE LANNEZ, MÉDECIN · SYLVAIN DESJARDINS, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

3 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE LA MAIRIE · PHARMACIE DU CARILLON · PHARMACIE PRINCIPALE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (MEDIATHEQUE MUNICIPALE DE BOURBOURG). ^[3]

4 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE ALBERT DENVERS · STADE EDMOND BELLE · SALLE DES SPORTS CASSEL · SALLE FONDATION DURIEZ). ^[3]

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

5 × Hairdresser (CONCEPT COIFFURE · DUFLOU COIFFURE · COULEUR CANNELLE · KARBEN FEMME · SIGNATURE SO). ^[3,4]

3 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie), 1 × Primary school (élémentaire), 5 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	3	FACEL	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	3	SARL FERME DU GROMMENDYCK · BOUCHERIE THOREZ POIVRE · AU PETIT BOUCHER	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	BIODK	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Supermarket	3	SABOURG · ALDI MARCHE BOIS GRENIER · CARREFOUR MARKET	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	15	VANSUYPEENE JEANNINE · AUBERGE DE LA BRIQUE D OR · FOLIE FRITES · BOURBOURG KEBAB	INSEE BPE 15 / INSEE SIRENE 16 [3,4]
Café / bar	5	LE SAINT ANTOINE · LE CENTRAL · LE CAFE DES SPORTS	INSEE SIRENE 5 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	3	GROUPE SCOLAIRE YVETTE ET JEAN DUBOIS · ECOLE PRIMAIRE JEAN-MICHEL BILLAUT · ECOLE PRIMAIRE LAMARTINE	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Collège	2	COLLEGE JEAN JAURES · COLLEGE PRIVE NOTRE-DAME	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	7	AMANDINE LEGRAND, MÉDECIN · KÉVIN MARTINACHE, MÉDECIN · FABRICE VANTOMME, MÉDECIN · LUCIE LANNEZ, MÉDECIN · SYLVAIN DESJARDINS, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 7 [3]
Pharmacy	3	PHARMACIE DE LA MAIRIE · PHARMACIE DU CARILLON · PHARMACIE PRINCIPALE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [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 MUNICIPALE DE BOURBOURG	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	4	COMPLEXE ALBERT DENVERS · STADE EDMOND BELLE · SALLE DES SPORTS CASSEL · SALLE FONDATION DURIEZ	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	5	CAISSE LOCALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL · CAISSE REGIONALE DU CREDIT MUTUEL NORD EUROPE · AGENCE BOURBOURG · CAISSE REG CREDIT AGRIC MUT NORD FRANCE · BANQUE CIC NORD OUEST	INSEE BPE 5 [3]
Hairdresser	5	CONCEPT COIFFURE · DUFLOU COIFFURE · COULEUR CANNELLE · KARBEN FEMME · SIGNATURE SO	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 10 [3,4]
Fuel station	3	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

Weekly market (reported, unverified): Tuesday 8h00 à 13h00 Place du Marché aux Chevaux. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 6,076 peak 1982: 7,341 2023: 6,931 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 7,002 (2012) → 6,931 (2023): -1 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 7,106 (1990) → 6,931 (2023): -2.5 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 3,369, of which 1.3 % second homes and 8.1 % vacant. ^[8]

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 (Bourbourg): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Bourbourg): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Bourbourg): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Bourbourg): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Bourbourg): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 7.3

Days at or below 0 °C 39.8

Muggy days a summer 2.3

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 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the WATTEN weather station, 12.5 km away at 7 m; the village itself is at 4 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at DUNKERQUE, 15.8 km away at 11 m, over 29 summers. ^[10]

An average of 778 mm of rain a year, spread over 130 days — about 6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at GRAVELINES, 6.3 km away at 3 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

The market day comes from the commune's own website and has not been confirmed by a second source. ^[5]

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59094/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
Commune website 2026-10— https://www.bourbourg.fr/decouvrir-bourbourg/le-marche-hebdomadaire/— “Chaque Mardi de 8h00 à 13h00”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59094/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59094/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59094/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59094
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
Beaufort-en-Anjou	49	427 km SW	6,901	64	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Péronne	80	125 km SE	7,090	65.9	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Quesnoy-sur-Deûle	59	62 km SE	6,805	54.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Le Cateau-Cambrésis	59	133 km SE	6,764	66.7	Served	no figures
Valognes	50	306 km SW	6,969	68.2	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Barr	67	472 km SE	7,057	66.8	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Quesnoy-sur-Deûle	59	62 km SE	6,805	54.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Péronne	80	125 km SE	7,090	65.9	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Le Cateau-Cambrésis	59	133 km SE	6,764	66.7	Served	no figures
Valognes	50	306 km SW	6,969	68.2	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Beaufort-en-Anjou	49	427 km SW	6,901	64	Served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Barr	67	472 km SE	7,057	66.8	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · 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 Bourbourg'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
Péronne	80	125 km SE	7,090	65.9	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Quesnoy-sur-Deûle	59	62 km SE	6,805	54.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Barr	67	472 km SE	7,057	66.8	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Templeuve-en-Pévèle	59	83 km SE	7,202	54.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Lannemezan	65	880 km S	5,811	64.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Guînes	62	24 km W	5,479	60.2	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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