Drincham

Nord · CC des Hauts de Flandre · INSEE 59182

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

Few services 22.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 56 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Drincham (INSEE 59182) is in Nord (59), part of CC des Hauts de Flandre. Population 281 (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 22.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 56 % of the 17,659 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	0.77	10	7.71
Housing mix	0.98	5	4.91

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 × Bakery (boulangerie).

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]
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 [3,4]
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: 185 2023: 281 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 252 (2012) → 281 (2023): 11.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 221 (1990) → 281 (2023): 27.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 114, of which 0.9 % second homes and 5.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.7 km WPharmacy — 2.7 km NWGP — 4.4 km SFood shop — 5.1 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 (Looberghe): 2.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bollezeele): 5.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Bollezeele): 4.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Looberghe): 2.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Drincham): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 7.3

Days at or below 0 °C 39.8

Muggy days a summer 2.3

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 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the WATTEN weather station, 10.6 km away at 7 m; the village itself is at 10 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at DUNKERQUE, 16.7 km away at 11 m, over 29 summers. ^[11]

An average of 838 mm of rain a year, spread over 130 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at WATTEN, 10.6 km away at 7 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 — 59182/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59182/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59182/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59182/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59358
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59089
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59182
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
Obrechies	59	143 km SE	283	19.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Buswiller	67	442 km SE	281	24.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Bouchavesnes-Bergen	80	111 km SE	283	16.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Gungwiller	67	414 km SE	284	22.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Givrauval	55	330 km SE	287	19.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jure	57	355 km SE	283	23.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bouchavesnes-Bergen	80	111 km SE	283	16.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Obrechies	59	143 km SE	283	19.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Givrauval	55	330 km SE	287	19.5	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jure	57	355 km SE	283	23.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Gungwiller	67	414 km SE	284	22.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Buswiller	67	442 km SE	281	24.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 66 % · 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 Drincham'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
Obrechies	59	143 km SE	283	19.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Bouchavesnes-Bergen	80	111 km SE	283	16.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Hendecourt-lès-Cagnicourt	62	90 km SE	288	19	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Sermaize	60	151 km S	271	19.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Boinville-en-Mantois	78	223 km S	285	20.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Adinfer	62	84 km S	287	24.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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