Clairfayts

Nord · CC Coeur de l'Avesnois · INSEE 59148

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

Few services 20.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 39 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Clairfayts (INSEE 59148) is in Nord (59), part of CC Coeur de l'Avesnois. Population 357 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 20.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 39 % of the 18,074 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	25	0
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.63	10	6.3
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.62

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), 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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [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: 268 peak 2017: 371 2023: 357 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 369 (2012) → 357 (2023): -3.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 316 (1990) → 357 (2023): 13 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 158, of which 3.8 % second homes and 12 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 0.9 km NWFood shop — 2.8 km NWGP — 2.8 km NWPharmacy — 2.9 km NWBakery — 5.7 km SE 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 (Eppe-Sauvage): 5.7 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Solre-le-Château): 2.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Solre-le-Château): 2.8 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Solre-le-Château): 2.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Clairfayts): 0.9 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 7.2

Days at or below 0 °C 53.9

Muggy days a summer 0.9

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 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 54 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ST-HILAIRE-SUR-HELPE weather station, 14.1 km away at 185 m; the village itself is at 236 m. ^[11]

The village sits 51 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. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at ST-HILAIRE-SUR-HELPE, 14.1 km away at 185 m, over 20 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 51 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 849 mm of rain a year, spread over 137 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at DIMONT, 7.3 km away at 192 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59148/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59148/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59148/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59148/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59198
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59572
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59148
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
Bajus	62	120 km W	355	21.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Sornay	70	340 km S	357	24.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 70 % · humidity 93 %
Courtemont-Varennes	02	128 km S	361	21.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Sornéville	54	228 km SE	356	24.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Eswars	59	61 km W	363	20.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Écueil	51	109 km S	358	18.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Eswars	59	61 km W	363	20.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Écueil	51	109 km S	358	18.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 76 % · humidity 100 %
Bajus	62	120 km W	355	21.4	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Courtemont-Varennes	02	128 km S	361	21.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Sornéville	54	228 km SE	356	24.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Sornay	70	340 km S	357	24.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 70 % · 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 Clairfayts'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
Courtemont-Varennes	02	128 km S	361	21.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Eswars	59	61 km W	363	20.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Blicourt	60	162 km SW	356	22.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Sailly-le-Sec	80	113 km W	351	22.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Litz	60	153 km SW	359	20	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Grandrû	60	96 km SW	371	23.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

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