Frelinghien

Nord · Métropole Européenne de Lille · INSEE 59252

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

Partly served 49.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 64 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Frelinghien (INSEE 59252) is in Nord (59), part of Métropole Européenne de Lille. Population 2,609 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). ^[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/59252-frelinghien

Vitality score

Vitality score 49.3/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 64 % of the 7,976 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	0.26	25	6.56
Social	0.51	20	10.26
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.67	10	6.71
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.93

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 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) (BOURGAIN BENEDICTE). ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (COCCIMARKET). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (CHEZ DONTOTORINO). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (LE CAMPANELLA). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PASTEUR · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SACRE COEUR). ^[3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (PASCAL BIGOTTE, MÉDECIN · ANNE-CATHERINE DECOSTER-LEMAIRE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DERAM DELEPINE). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE DE FRELINGHIEN). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF ALFONSE PARENT VENNIN MAURICE). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (LA HAUTE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant, 1 × Hairdresser.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	BOURGAIN BENEDICTE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	COCCIMARKET	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	CHEZ DONTOTORINO	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	LE CAMPANELLA	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PASTEUR · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PRIVEE SACRE COEUR	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	PASCAL BIGOTTE, MÉDECIN · ANNE-CATHERINE DECOSTER-LEMAIRE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DERAM DELEPINE	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	MÉDIATHÈQUE DE FRELINGHIEN	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF ALFONSE PARENT VENNIN MAURICE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	2	LA HAUTE COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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: 1,703 2023: 2,609 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,438 (2012) → 2,609 (2023): 7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 2,228 (1990) → 2,609 (2023): 17.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 1,186, of which 0.7 % second homes and 3.5 % 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 (Frelinghien): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Frelinghien): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Frelinghien): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Frelinghien): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Frelinghien): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 10.6

Days at or below 0 °C 35.7

Muggy days a summer 0.8

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 11 days a year at or above 30 °C and 36 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the ROUBAIX weather station, 17.5 km away at 30 m; the village itself is at 18 m. ^[9]

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

Humidity measured at LILLE-LESQUIN, 19.6 km away at 47 m, over 30 summers. ^[9]

An average of 761 mm of rain a year, spread over 128 days — about 5.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at ARMENTIERES, 3.2 km away at 14 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

What property sold for

150 houses sold between 2021 and 2025, at a median of 255,895 € — 2,602 € per m² of built surface. ^[10]

5 flats sold over the same window, at a median of 219,950 € — 2,530 € per m². ^[10]

The median across Nord is 1,802 € per m², so this commune sits above it. ^[10]

These are recorded sale prices, not valuations or asking prices, and a median over five years spans five different markets. Built surface excludes land, which carries much of a rural property's value.

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59252/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59252/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59252/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59252/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59252
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Villeneuve-Saint-Germain	02	151 km S	2,616	56.3	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Marpent	59	94 km SE	2,653	50	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Orcet	63	557 km S	2,897	52.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 72 % · humidity 100 %
Cantenay-Épinard	49	436 km SW	2,415	59.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Morancé	69	551 km S	2,261	51.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 84 % · humidity 57 %
Mardié	45	321 km S	3,078	37.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 74 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Marpent	59	94 km SE	2,653	50	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 81 % · humidity 100 %
Villeneuve-Saint-Germain	02	151 km S	2,616	56.3	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Mardié	45	321 km S	3,078	37.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 85 % · winter 74 %
Cantenay-Épinard	49	436 km SW	2,415	59.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Morancé	69	551 km S	2,261	51.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 84 % · humidity 57 %
Orcet	63	557 km S	2,897	52.6	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 72 % · 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 Frelinghien'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
Cantenay-Épinard	49	436 km SW	2,415	59.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Annet-sur-Marne	77	199 km S	3,408	43.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Wahagnies	59	26 km S	2,613	55.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Erblon	35	447 km SW	3,651	42.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Burbure	62	38 km SW	2,834	60	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
La Fère	02	121 km S	2,796	57.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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