Cassel

Nord · CA Coeur de Flandre · INSEE 59135

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

Served 63.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 96 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Cassel (INSEE 59135) is in Nord (59), part of CA Coeur de Flandre. Population 2,198 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[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/59135-cassel

Vitality score

Vitality score 63.7/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 96 % of the 8,986 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0.97	20	19.43
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.63	10	6.29
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.51	10	5.1
Housing mix	0.9	5	4.49

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 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 1 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AU PAIN DU GEANT). ^[3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (VIVAL · TRADITION EN NORD). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (CARREFOUR CONTACT). ^[3,4]

10 × Restaurant (RESTAURANT DE L'HOTEL DU SAUVAGE · JARDIN DU MONT DES RECOLLETS · A L HOTEL DE VILLE · HAUT BONHEUR DE LA TABLE). ^[3,4]

6 × Café / bar (A LA BOTTE DE PAILLE · A LA PORTE DE BERGUES · AUX TROIS MOULINS). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE TILL L'ESPIEGLE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINT JOSEPH). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE ROBERT LE FRISON). ^[3]

4 × GP (médecin généraliste) (REGIS LEPLAT, MÉDECIN · ISABELLE BODEIN-MARTIN, MÉDECIN · MARIE VANDENABEELE, MÉDECIN · CATHERINE LENANCKER, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DU MONT CASSEL). ^[3,4]

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

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

2 × Gym / sports hall (COLLEGE ROBERT LE FRISON · SALLE DES SPORTS). ^[3]

4 × Bank (CAISSE LOCALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL · CAISSE REGIONALE DU CREDIT MUTUEL NORD EUROPE · AGENCE CASSEL · CAISSE REG CREDIT AGRIC MUT NORD FRANCE). ^[3]

3 × Hairdresser (DSEALON · L' BARBIER DE CASSEL · DEDECKER AGATHE). ^[3,4]

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

2 × Hotel (CHATELLERIE DE SCHOEBEQUE · L'ART DOIZE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 1 × Supermarket, 3 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	AU PAIN DU GEANT	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	VIVAL · TRADITION EN NORD	INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	CARREFOUR CONTACT	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	10	RESTAURANT DE L'HOTEL DU SAUVAGE · JARDIN DU MONT DES RECOLLETS · A L HOTEL DE VILLE · HAUT BONHEUR DE LA TABLE	INSEE BPE 10 / INSEE SIRENE 16 [3,4]
Café / bar	6	A LA BOTTE DE PAILLE · A LA PORTE DE BERGUES · AUX TROIS MOULINS	INSEE SIRENE 6 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE TILL L'ESPIEGLE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SAINT JOSEPH	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE ROBERT LE FRISON	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	4	REGIS LEPLAT, MÉDECIN · ISABELLE BODEIN-MARTIN, MÉDECIN · MARIE VANDENABEELE, MÉDECIN · CATHERINE LENANCKER, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DU MONT CASSEL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 DE CASSEL	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	2	COLLEGE ROBERT LE FRISON · SALLE DES SPORTS	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	4	CAISSE LOCALE DE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL · CAISSE REGIONALE DU CREDIT MUTUEL NORD EUROPE · AGENCE CASSEL · CAISSE REG CREDIT AGRIC MUT NORD FRANCE	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Hairdresser	3	DSEALON · L' BARBIER DE CASSEL · DEDECKER AGATHE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	2	CHATELLERIE DE SCHOEBEQUE · L'ART DOIZE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 2,621 2023: 2,198 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,287 (2012) → 2,198 (2023): -3.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 2,177 (1990) → 2,198 (2023): 1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,111, of which 5.1 % second homes and 9.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Food shop — 2.8 km SW 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 (Cassel): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bavinchove): 2.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Cassel): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Cassel): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Cassel): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 4.5

Days at or below 0 °C 36.1

Muggy days a summer 0.3

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 5 days a year at or above 30 °C and 36 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the STEENVOORDE weather station, 6.7 km away at 42 m; the village itself is at 154 m. ^[10]

The village sits 112 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 0 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at STEENVOORDE, 6.7 km away at 42 m, over 18 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 112 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 747 mm of rain a year, spread over 123 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at STEENVOORDE, 6.7 km away at 42 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 — 59135/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59135/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59135/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59135/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59135
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59054
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
Naves	19	613 km S	2,281	51.2	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Bubry	56	517 km SW	2,242	56.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 100 % · winter 100 %
Lubersac	19	601 km S	2,246	59.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 78 % · humidity 64 %
Orléat	63	554 km S	2,242	52	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 49 % · humidity 86 %
Riaillé	44	457 km SW	2,365	58.4	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
La Roche-Jaudy	22	472 km SW	2,629	59	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Riaillé	44	457 km SW	2,365	58.4	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
La Roche-Jaudy	22	472 km SW	2,629	59	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Bubry	56	517 km SW	2,242	56.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 100 % · winter 100 %
Orléat	63	554 km S	2,242	52	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 56 % · winter 49 % · humidity 86 %
Lubersac	19	601 km S	2,246	59.8	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 78 % · humidity 64 %
Naves	19	613 km S	2,281	51.2	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 96 % · 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 Cassel'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
Saint-Brandan	22	470 km SW	2,317	50.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
La Chapelle-Fleurigné	35	376 km SW	2,451	51.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Guégon	56	485 km SW	2,365	47.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Pleine-Fougères	35	385 km SW	2,002	54.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Corseul	22	423 km SW	2,331	45.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Morbecque	59	12 km S	2,573	54.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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