Capinghem

Nord · Métropole Européenne de Lille · INSEE 59128

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

Partly served 58.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 87 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Capinghem (INSEE 59128) is in Nord (59), part of Métropole Européenne de Lille. Population 2,728 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Grands centres urbains (level 1). ^[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/59128-capinghem

Vitality score

Vitality score 58.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 87 % of the 7,733 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	0.78	20	15.5
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.46	10	4.59
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.93

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 1 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]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LE FOURNIL DE CAPINGHEM). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (LES COPAINS BOUCHERS). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (LIDL). ^[3,4]

5 × Restaurant (LA GUINGUETTE · AUX INDES ROYAL · PEKO PEKO · BISTRO DE LA MERE SIMONE · LA MARMITE DE PIERROT). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (LE NOMBRE VIN). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUB LUCIE AUBRAC). ^[3]

5 × GP (médecin généraliste) (FRANCIS LEFEBVRE, MÉDECIN · OTHMANE EL HENTOUR, MÉDECIN · THIBAUT TEMPLEMENT, MÉDECIN · DAPHNEY RABE, MÉDECIN · FARID LADROUZ, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE DE CAPINGHEM). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE MULTIACTIVITES). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (DE MECHE AVEC VOUS · LA SUITE COIFFEUR. CREATEUR). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LE FOURNIL DE CAPINGHEM	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	LES COPAINS BOUCHERS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	LIDL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	5	LA GUINGUETTE · AUX INDES ROYAL · PEKO PEKO · BISTRO DE LA MERE SIMONE · LA MARMITE DE PIERROT	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 7 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	LE NOMBRE VIN	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUB LUCIE AUBRAC	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	5	FRANCIS LEFEBVRE, MÉDECIN · OTHMANE EL HENTOUR, MÉDECIN · THIBAUT TEMPLEMENT, MÉDECIN · DAPHNEY RABE, MÉDECIN · FARID LADROUZ, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 5 [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	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE DE CAPINGHEM	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	SALLE MULTIACTIVITES	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	3	DE MECHE AVEC VOUS · LA SUITE COIFFEUR. CREATEUR	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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: 996 2023: 2,728 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,670 (2012) → 2,728 (2023): 63.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,170 (1990) → 2,728 (2023): 133.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,417, of which 0.7 % second homes and 7.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 0.7 km EPharmacy — 0.7 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 (Capinghem): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Capinghem): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Lille): 0.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Lille): 0.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

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

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, 12.5 km away at 47 m; the village itself is at 49 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at LILLE-LESQUIN, 12.5 km away at 47 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 799 mm of rain a year, spread over 131 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LAMBERSART, 4.8 km away at 19 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 — 59128/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59128/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59128/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59128/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59128
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59350
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
Famars	59	54 km SE	2,474	49.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
L'Étrat	42	583 km S	2,879	63.2	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Le Coudray	28	268 km SW	4,038	46.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
La Sentinelle	59	49 km SE	3,103	44.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Aubry-du-Hainaut	59	47 km SE	1,705	41	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Rivery	80	95 km SW	3,636	41.9	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Aubry-du-Hainaut	59	47 km SE	1,705	41	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
La Sentinelle	59	49 km SE	3,103	44.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Famars	59	54 km SE	2,474	49.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Rivery	80	95 km SW	3,636	41.9	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Le Coudray	28	268 km SW	4,038	46.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
L'Étrat	42	583 km S	2,879	63.2	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 49 % · winter 72 % · 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 Capinghem'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
Famars	59	54 km SE	2,474	49.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Le Coudray	28	268 km SW	4,038	46.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
La Sentinelle	59	49 km SE	3,103	44.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Aubry-du-Hainaut	59	47 km SE	1,705	41	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Lezennes	59	11 km E	2,978	56.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Emmerin	59	6.3 km SE	3,026	38.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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