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Cappelle-en-Pévèle

Nord · CC Pévèle-Carembault · INSEE 59129

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

Partly served 51.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 74 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Cappelle-en-Pévèle (INSEE 59129) is in Nord (59), part of CC Pévèle-Carembault. Population 2,257 (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/59129-cappelle-en-pevele

Vitality score

Vitality score 51.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 74 % of the 8,819 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0.26256.56
Social0.632012.58
Education0.39103.93
Health0.59105.85
Public & culture0.3951.97
Population trend0.81108.08
Housing mix0.9954.96

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 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 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) (SUCRE SALE D'HAUTEFOIS). [3]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). [3]

4 × Restaurant (PURE · RESTAURANT BELGRANGE · PAS-SAGE). [3,4]

1 × Café / bar. [4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE EMILIE CARLES). [3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE SIMONE VEIL). [3]

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (STÉPHANIE DELABY-TRIOLEYRE, MÉDECIN · XAVIER WUYDIN, MÉDECIN · ALEXANDRE MORCHAIN, MÉDECIN). [3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DU PEVELE). [3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (CAPPELLE EN PEVELE AP). [3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE CULTIV'ARTS). [3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COLLEGE SIMONE VEIL). [3]

3 × Hairdresser (HISTOIRE D'HAIR · DE CLERCK ELODIE). [3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle). [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)1SUCRE SALE D'HAUTEFOISINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)1INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant4PURE · RESTAURANT BELGRANGE · PAS-SAGEINSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar1INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)1ECOLE PRIMAIRE EMILIE CARLESINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège1COLLEGE SIMONE VEILINSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)3STÉPHANIE DELABY-TRIOLEYRE, MÉDECIN · XAVIER WUYDIN, MÉDECIN · ALEXANDRE MORCHAIN, MÉDECININSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy1PHARMACIE DU PEVELEINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale1CAPPELLE EN PEVELE APINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library1MÉDIATHÈQUE CULTIV'ARTSINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall1COLLEGE SIMONE VEILINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser3HISTOIRE D'HAIR · DE CLERCK ELODIEINSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Campsite0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 1,361 peak 2012: 2,273 2023: 2,257 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,273 (2012) → 2,257 (2023): -0.7 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 1,725 (1990) → 2,257 (2023): 30.8 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 929, of which 0.4 % second homes and 4.6 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 km
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 (Cappelle-en-Pévèle): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Cappelle-en-Pévèle): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). [8]

GP (Cappelle-en-Pévèle): 0 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Pharmacy (Cappelle-en-Pévèle): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Primary school (Cappelle-en-Pévèle): 0 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 42 days at or below 0 °C, over 26 complete years in 1995–2024. [9]

Measured at the CAPPELLE-EN-PEV weather station, 1.7 km away at 51 m; the village itself is at 42 m. [9]

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

Humidity measured at LILLE-LESQUIN, 8.6 km away at 47 m, over 30 summers. [9]

An average of 718 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 5.8 mm on a day it rains. [9]

Rainfall measured at CAPPELLE-EN-PEV, 1.7 km away at 51 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59129/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59129/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59129/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59129/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 59129
  9. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Balagny-sur-Thérain60148 km SW1,62846.9Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Sarras07604 km S2,22058.4Partly servedWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 84 % · humidity 64 %
Schirmeck67369 km SE2,05658.5Partly servedSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Foy-la-Grande33668 km S2,50769ServedWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 33 % · winter 95 %
Castres-Gironde33701 km SW2,69547Partly servedWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 84 % · humidity 64 %
Roiffieux07598 km S2,74351.8Partly servedWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Balagny-sur-Thérain60148 km SW1,62846.9Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Schirmeck67369 km SE2,05658.5Partly servedSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Roiffieux07598 km S2,74351.8Partly servedWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Sarras07604 km S2,22058.4Partly servedWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 23 % · winter 84 % · humidity 64 %
Sainte-Foy-la-Grande33668 km S2,50769ServedWarmer summers, similar winters.summer 33 % · winter 95 %
Castres-Gironde33701 km SW2,69547Partly servedWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 62 % · winter 84 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Cappelle-en-Pévèle'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Balagny-sur-Thérain60148 km SW1,62846.9Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Pont-à-Marcq594.3 km W3,01653.3Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Moosch68408 km SE1,59548.1Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Gonnehem6243 km W2,52551.1Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Ménilles27209 km SW1,70846.6Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
La Milesse72350 km SW2,61746.8Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %