Saint-Momelin

Nord · CC des Hauts de Flandre · INSEE 59538

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

No daily shops 19.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 32 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Momelin (INSEE 59538) is in Nord (59), part of CC des Hauts de Flandre. Population 410 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/59538-saint-momelin

Vitality score

Vitality score 19.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 32 % of the 18,015 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	0.55	10	5.54
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.78

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 × Butcher (boucherie).

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]
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: 319 peak 2017: 462 2023: 410 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 444 (2012) → 410 (2023): -7.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 389 (1990) → 410 (2023): 5.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 183, of which 2.2 % second homes and 8.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 1.2 km NBakery — 4.0 km SWPharmacy — 4.0 km SGP — 4.3 km S 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 (Tilques): 4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Nieurlet): 1.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Omer): 4.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Saint-Omer): 4 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Saint-Momelin): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 7.3

Days at or below 0 °C 39.8

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 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 40 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the WATTEN weather station, 5.2 km away at 7 m; the village itself is at 11 m. ^[12]

An average of 838 mm of rain a year, spread over 130 days — about 6.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at WATTEN, 5.2 km away at 7 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59538/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59538/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59538/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59538/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62819
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59433
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62765
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59538
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
Ransart	62	72 km SE	407	20.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 92 %
Bailleul-lès-Pernes	62	33 km S	408	23.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 100 % · winter 100 %
Achy	60	139 km S	408	22.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 76 %
Villereau	45	304 km S	407	21.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 78 %
Alzing	57	351 km SE	405	19.2	No daily shops	no figures
Obermorschwiller	68	507 km SE	409	20.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 66 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bailleul-lès-Pernes	62	33 km S	408	23.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 100 % · winter 100 %
Ransart	62	72 km SE	407	20.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 97 % · winter 92 %
Achy	60	139 km S	408	22.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.summer 92 % · winter 76 %
Villereau	45	304 km S	407	21.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 78 %
Alzing	57	351 km SE	405	19.2	No daily shops	no figures
Obermorschwiller	68	507 km SE	409	20.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 74 % · winter 66 %

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