Bouvines

Nord · Métropole Européenne de Lille · INSEE 59106

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

Few services 29.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 40 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bouvines (INSEE 59106) is in Nord (59), part of Métropole Européenne de Lille. Population 766 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[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/59106-bouvines

Vitality score

Vitality score 29.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 40 % of the 15,909 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.62	10	6.22
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.94

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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”.

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE BLSB). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (L'ESTAMINET DE L'ALLUMETTE · LEGEI). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: 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	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	BOULANGERIE BLSB	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	2	L'ESTAMINET DE L'ALLUMETTE · LEGEI	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [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: 560 peak 2017: 775 2023: 766 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 703 (2012) → 766 (2023): 9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 683 (1990) → 766 (2023): 12.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 358, of which 0.6 % second homes and 6.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Bakery — 1.0 km SEPharmacy — 1.4 km WFood shop — 1.5 km NWPrimary school — 1.7 km NWGP — 1.7 km NW 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 (Bouvines): 1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Sainghin-en-Mélantois): 1.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Sainghin-en-Mélantois): 1.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Sainghin-en-Mélantois): 1.4 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Sainghin-en-Mélantois): 1.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 7.5

Days at or below 0 °C 35.1

Muggy days a summer 0.8

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 35 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LILLE-LESQUIN weather station, 6.5 km away at 47 m; the village itself is at 40 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at LILLE-LESQUIN, 6.5 km away at 47 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 738 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 5.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LILLE-LESQUIN, 6.5 km away at 47 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 — 59106/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59106/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59106/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59106/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59106
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59523
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
Awoingt	59	48 km S	757	40.7	Partly served	no figures
Féy	57	271 km SE	754	25.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Rosbruck	57	306 km SE	740	29.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Orival	76	211 km SW	818	34.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Breilly	80	102 km SW	707	23.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Géovreisset	01	513 km S	852	27.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 4 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Awoingt	59	48 km S	757	40.7	Partly served	no figures
Breilly	80	102 km SW	707	23.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Orival	76	211 km SW	818	34.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Féy	57	271 km SE	754	25.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Rosbruck	57	306 km SE	740	29.6	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Géovreisset	01	513 km S	852	27.7	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 4 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Bouvines'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
Périers-sur-le-Dan	14	292 km SW	587	19.9	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Sotteville-sous-le-Val	76	204 km SW	812	31.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Fayet	02	79 km S	724	46	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Rouvignies	59	33 km SE	655	41	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Escoville	14	289 km SW	920	32.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Janville	60	127 km S	640	25.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %

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