Bruay-sur-l'Escaut

Nord · CA Valenciennes Métropole · INSEE 59112

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

Partly served 44.5/100 · confidence: low· Better served than 6 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bruay-sur-l'Escaut (INSEE 59112) is in Nord (59), part of CA Valenciennes Métropole. Population 11,644 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Centres urbains intermédiaires (level 2). ^[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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 44.5/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: low (sources disagree on Bakery (boulangerie); sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 6 % of the 2,110 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	0.35	25	8.72
Social	0.52	20	10.48
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.43	10	4.29
Public & culture	0.12	5	0.59
Population trend	0.49	10	4.89
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.96

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]

5 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AUX DELICES · LES MOISSONS BOUCETTA · LE BLE DELICE 3 · AU PAIN DELICE). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (CHEZ CHRISTOPHE). ^[3,4]

5 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (HACHTOUR LAHCEN · ALDI MARCHE · PROXI SHOP · AUX SAVEURS DU PRIMEUR · AJF). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (SUPER U). ^[3,4]

7 × Restaurant (AU P'TIT HALAL · FRITERIE DU PINSON · AKSU BRUAY). ^[3,4]

5 × Café / bar (LE DERBY · LE LUTETIA · APERITOP). ^[4]

4 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PAUL LANGEVIN · ECOLE MATERNELLE HENRI MATISSE · ECOLE MATERNELLE JOLIOT CURIE · ECOLE MATERNELLE DANIEL FERRY). ^[3]

3 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE LEO LAGRANGE · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE EMILE ZOLA · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE CLAUDE MONET). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE JEAN MACE). ^[3]

5 × GP (médecin généraliste) (VELANIE MALLET, MÉDECIN · ARNAUD DEMAIN, MÉDECIN · ISABELLE DEMILECAMPS, MÉDECIN · KAMAL BOUTOUTAOU, MÉDECIN · CHRISTOPHE GALAND, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

4 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE SAINTIN · PHARMACIE DE THIERS · OFFICINE DE BRUAY THIERS · PHARMACIE DU CENTRE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE BRUAY SUR L'ESCAUT). ^[3]

3 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE COURTADE · COMPLEXE JP GATIEN · SALLE JEAN MACE). ^[3]

1 × Bank (AGENCE BRUAY SUR ESCAUT). ^[3]

10 × Hairdresser (NATHALIE). ^[3,4]

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

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 3 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Butcher (boucherie), 2 × Supermarket, 5 × Restaurant, 1 × Primary school (élémentaire), 5 × Hairdresser.

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	5	AUX DELICES · LES MOISSONS BOUCETTA · LE BLE DELICE 3 · AU PAIN DELICE	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 11 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	CHEZ CHRISTOPHE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	5	HACHTOUR LAHCEN · ALDI MARCHE · PROXI SHOP · AUX SAVEURS DU PRIMEUR · AJF	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 9 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	SUPER U	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	7	AU P'TIT HALAL · FRITERIE DU PINSON · AKSU BRUAY	INSEE BPE 7 / INSEE SIRENE 18 [3,4]
Café / bar	5	LE DERBY · LE LUTETIA · APERITOP	INSEE SIRENE 5 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	4	ECOLE MATERNELLE PAUL LANGEVIN · ECOLE MATERNELLE HENRI MATISSE · ECOLE MATERNELLE JOLIOT CURIE · ECOLE MATERNELLE DANIEL FERRY	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	3	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE LEO LAGRANGE · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE EMILE ZOLA · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE CLAUDE MONET	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE JEAN MACE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	5	VELANIE MALLET, MÉDECIN · ARNAUD DEMAIN, MÉDECIN · ISABELLE DEMILECAMPS, MÉDECIN · KAMAL BOUTOUTAOU, MÉDECIN · CHRISTOPHE GALAND, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 5 [3]
Pharmacy	4	PHARMACIE SAINTIN · PHARMACIE DE THIERS · OFFICINE DE BRUAY THIERS · PHARMACIE DU CENTRE	INSEE BPE 4 / 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	MÉDIATHÈQUE MUNICIPALE DE BRUAY SUR L'ESCAUT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	3	SALLE COURTADE · COMPLEXE JP GATIEN · SALLE JEAN MACE	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	1	AGENCE BRUAY SUR ESCAUT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Hairdresser	10	NATHALIE	INSEE BPE 10 / INSEE SIRENE 16 [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: 12,546 2023: 11,644 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 11,975 (2012) → 11,644 (2023): -2.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 11,771 (1990) → 11,644 (2023): -1.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 5,073, of which 0.4 % second homes and 7.6 % vacant. ^[7]

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 (Bruay-sur-l'Escaut): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bruay-sur-l'Escaut): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Bruay-sur-l'Escaut): 0.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Bruay-sur-l'Escaut): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Bruay-sur-l'Escaut): 0.1 km to the south-west (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, 9.4 km away at 50 m; the village itself is at 21 m. ^[9]

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

Humidity measured at VALENCIENNES, 9.4 km away at 50 m, over 29 summers. ^[9]

An average of 693 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 5.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at VALENCIENNES, 9.4 km away at 50 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Bakery (boulangerie)

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59112/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59112/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59112/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59112/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59112
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
Maizières-lès-Metz	57	230 km SE	11,580	47.9	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Bolbec	76	237 km W	11,590	49.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 76 %
Pacé	35	459 km SW	11,703	52.9	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Fourmies	59	56 km SE	11,449	53.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Somain	59	19 km W	11,766	48.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Septèmes-les-Vallons	13	790 km S	11,995	49.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 45 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Somain	59	19 km W	11,766	48.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Fourmies	59	56 km SE	11,449	53.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Maizières-lès-Metz	57	230 km SE	11,580	47.9	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Bolbec	76	237 km W	11,590	49.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.summer 95 % · winter 76 %
Pacé	35	459 km SW	11,703	52.9	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 82 % · humidity 93 %
Septèmes-les-Vallons	13	790 km S	11,995	49.9	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 45 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Bruay-sur-l'Escaut'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
Fourmies	59	56 km SE	11,449	53.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Somain	59	19 km W	11,766	48.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Dammartin-en-Goële	77	162 km SW	11,907	53.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Chauny	02	90 km S	11,596	62.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Yvetot	76	217 km SW	11,438	61.1	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Raismes	59	3.9 km W	12,199	53.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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