Killem

Nord · CC des Hauts de Flandre · INSEE 59326

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

Few services 32.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 35 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Killem (INSEE 59326) is in Nord (59), part of CC des Hauts de Flandre. Population 1,164 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/59326-killem

Vitality score

Vitality score 32.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 35 % of the 13,398 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	0.13	25	3.28
Social	0.39	20	7.87
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.69	10	6.93
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.79

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (FRITERIE JEAN JACQUES). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (CAFE DE LA MAIRIE). ^[4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE KILLEM). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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)	1		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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	FRITERIE JEAN JACQUES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	CAFE DE LA MAIRIE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE JULES FERRY	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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE KILLEM	INSEE BPE 1 [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 823 2023: 1,164 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 996 (2012) → 1,164 (2023): 16.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 976 (1990) → 1,164 (2023): 19.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 477, of which 2.1 % second homes and 5.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 1.4 km NEBakery — 2.7 km NEGP — 2.7 km NEPharmacy — 2.7 km NE 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 (Hondschoote): 2.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Hondschoote): 1.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Hondschoote): 2.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

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

Primary school (Killem): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 5.7

Days at or below 0 °C 27.4

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 6 days a year at or above 30 °C and 27 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the STEENVOORDE weather station, 14.3 km away at 42 m; the village itself is at 10 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at STEENVOORDE, 14.3 km away at 42 m, over 18 summers. ^[10]

An average of 767 mm of rain a year, spread over 124 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at KILLEM, 2.3 km away at 7 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 — 59326/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59326/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59326/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59326/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59309
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59326
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
Saint-Ségal	29	565 km SW	1,182	35.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Les Alluets-le-Roi	78	232 km S	1,390	36.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Sammeron	77	227 km S	1,178	34.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 46 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Martin-des-Tilleuls	85	516 km SW	1,150	32.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 82 %
Coat-Méal	29	579 km SW	1,133	32.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Antran	86	480 km S	1,148	31.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 99 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Sammeron	77	227 km S	1,178	34.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 46 % · humidity 100 %
Les Alluets-le-Roi	78	232 km S	1,390	36.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Antran	86	480 km S	1,148	31.3	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 69 % · winter 99 % · humidity 71 %
Saint-Martin-des-Tilleuls	85	516 km SW	1,150	32.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 82 %
Saint-Ségal	29	565 km SW	1,182	35.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Coat-Méal	29	579 km SW	1,133	32.5	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 73 % · 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 Killem'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-Ségal	29	565 km SW	1,182	35.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Eecke	59	20 km S	1,213	34.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Larré	56	515 km SW	1,104	36.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
La Martyre	29	558 km SW	751	50.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Strazeele	59	26 km S	942	41.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Savy-Berlette	62	67 km S	929	37.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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