Douchy-les-Mines

Nord · CA de la Porte du Hainaut · INSEE 59179

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

Partly served 41.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 4 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Douchy-les-Mines (INSEE 59179) is in Nord (59), part of CA de la Porte du Hainaut. Population 10,109 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/59179-douchy-les-mines

Vitality score

Vitality score 41.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 4 % of the 2,417 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	0.28	25	6.97
Social	0.49	20	9.88
Education	0.46	10	4.65
Health	0.39	10	3.89
Public & culture	0.12	5	0.59
Population trend	0.42	10	4.25
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.96

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 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 2 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (CROISSANT DE LUNE). ^[3,4]

4 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE SAINT HUBERT · BOUCHERIE ANOUAL · BOUCHERIE DE LA PLACE). ^[3,4]

2 × Supermarket (INTERMARCHE · CARREFOUR CONTACT). ^[3,4]

9 × Restaurant (SL PIZZA · CROC'FRIT · EL FRIT D'ECH MINEUR · AUBERGE SAINT HUBERT · LA BAGUETTE DOUCHYNOISE). ^[3,4]

3 × Café / bar (LE MALE BAR HE · LE VINCENNES). ^[4]

5 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE DU HAINAUT · ECOLE MATERNELLE JULES MOUSSERON · ECOLE MATERNELLE VICTOR HUGO · ECOLE MATERNELLE HENRI BARBUSSE · ECOLE MATERNELLE VILLARS). ^[3]

4 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE JULES FERRY · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE JULES MOUSSERON · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DU CENTRE · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE BARBUSSE). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE EMILE LITTRE). ^[3]

5 × GP (médecin généraliste) (LOUIZA SAYAH, MÉDECIN · THIERRY PILETTE, MÉDECIN · MOHAMMED RAFAI, MÉDECIN · FRANÇOIS CRETIN, MÉDECIN · ISABELLE BARILLOT, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

3 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DESCHAMPS · PHARMACIE DU BEFFROI · PHARMACIE DU GRAND CHENE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (MEDIATHEQUE COMMUNAUTAIRE DE DOUCHY-LES-MINES MAX-POL FOUCHET). ^[3]

1 × Cinema (JEAN RENOIR). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE NELSON MANDELA). ^[3]

1 × Bank (AGENCE DOUCHY LES MINES). ^[3]

11 × Hairdresser (SEV COIFFURE · BEN BAHMANE ALI · HAPPY DREAMS). ^[3,4]

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

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie), 2 × Restaurant, 4 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette). ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	CROISSANT DE LUNE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	4	BOUCHERIE SAINT HUBERT · BOUCHERIE ANOUAL · BOUCHERIE DE LA PLACE	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	2	INTERMARCHE · CARREFOUR CONTACT	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	9	SL PIZZA · CROC'FRIT · EL FRIT D'ECH MINEUR · AUBERGE SAINT HUBERT · LA BAGUETTE DOUCHYNOISE	INSEE BPE 9 / INSEE SIRENE 10 [3,4]
Café / bar	3	LE MALE BAR HE · LE VINCENNES	INSEE SIRENE 3 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	5	ECOLE MATERNELLE DU HAINAUT · ECOLE MATERNELLE JULES MOUSSERON · ECOLE MATERNELLE VICTOR HUGO · ECOLE MATERNELLE HENRI BARBUSSE · ECOLE MATERNELLE VILLARS	INSEE BPE 5 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	4	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE JULES FERRY · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE JULES MOUSSERON · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE DU CENTRE · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE BARBUSSE	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE EMILE LITTRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	5	LOUIZA SAYAH, MÉDECIN · THIERRY PILETTE, MÉDECIN · MOHAMMED RAFAI, MÉDECIN · FRANÇOIS CRETIN, MÉDECIN · ISABELLE BARILLOT, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 5 [3]
Pharmacy	3	PHARMACIE DESCHAMPS · PHARMACIE DU BEFFROI · PHARMACIE DU GRAND CHENE	INSEE BPE 3 / 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	MEDIATHEQUE COMMUNAUTAIRE DE DOUCHY-LES-MINES MAX-POL FOUCHET	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	1	JEAN RENOIR	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE NELSON MANDELA	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	1	AGENCE DOUCHY LES MINES	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Hairdresser	11	SEV COIFFURE · BEN BAHMANE ALI · HAPPY DREAMS	INSEE BPE 11 / INSEE SIRENE 19 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	0		INSEE 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: 7,421 peak 1982: 11,140 2023: 10,109 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 10,737 (2012) → 10,109 (2023): -5.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 10,931 (1990) → 10,109 (2023): -7.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 4,409, of which 0.4 % second homes and 4.1 % 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 (Douchy-les-Mines): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

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

GP (Douchy-les-Mines): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Douchy-les-Mines): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Douchy-les-Mines): 0.3 km to the south-east (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, 5.8 km away at 50 m; the village itself is at 47 m. ^[9]

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

Humidity measured at VALENCIENNES, 5.8 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, 5.8 km away at 50 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59179/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59179/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59179/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59179/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59179
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
Les Sorinières	44	503 km SW	9,275	54.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 76 % · humidity 86 %
Le Passage	47	710 km S	9,326	65	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 84 % · humidity 57 %
Varennes-Vauzelles	58	366 km S	9,146	61.8	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Estève	66	845 km S	11,630	50.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 21 % · winter 49 % · humidity 0 %
Chartres-de-Bretagne	35	448 km SW	8,880	55.3	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf	76	204 km SW	8,443	55.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Aubin-lès-Elbeuf	76	204 km SW	8,443	55.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Varennes-Vauzelles	58	366 km S	9,146	61.8	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Chartres-de-Bretagne	35	448 km SW	8,880	55.3	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Les Sorinières	44	503 km SW	9,275	54.5	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 76 % · humidity 86 %
Le Passage	47	710 km S	9,326	65	Served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 84 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Estève	66	845 km S	11,630	50.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 21 % · winter 49 % · humidity 0 %

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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 Douchy-les-Mines'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
Auchel	62	69 km W	10,051	53.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Aniche	59	11 km W	9,963	68	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Mont-Saint-Martin	54	191 km SE	9,361	58.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Albert	80	62 km SW	9,521	74.4	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Condé-sur-l'Escaut	59	22 km NE	9,253	61.3	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Chantilly	60	140 km SW	10,591	60.5	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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