Saint-Python

Nord · CC du Pays Solesmois · INSEE 59541

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

Partly served 47.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 81 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Python (INSEE 59541) is in Nord (59), part of CC du Pays Solesmois. Population 978 (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/59541-saint-python

Vitality score

Vitality score 47.6/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 81 % of the 14,450 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	0.42	25	10.54
Social	0.75	20	14.97
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.37	10	3.75
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.85

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 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 2 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). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (SUPER U). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LE ROSSIGNOL). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (BRASSERIE D'EN HAUT). ^[4]

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

3 × Hairdresser (GTL SUCCURSALES · SANDRA COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 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)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	SUPER U	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	1	LE ROSSIGNOL	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	BRASSERIE D'EN HAUT	INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	3	GTL SUCCURSALES · SANDRA COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
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: 1,412 2023: 978 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 966 (2012) → 978 (2023): 1.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,118 (1990) → 978 (2023): -12.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 472, of which 1.5 % second homes and 10.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school GP — 1.1 km SEPharmacy — 1.1 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 (Saint-Python): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Python): 0.3 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Solesmes): 1.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Solesmes): 1.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Saint-Python): 0.3 km to the north-west (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. ^[10]

Measured at the VALENCIENNES weather station, 15.4 km away at 50 m; the village itself is at 63 m. ^[10]

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

Humidity measured at VALENCIENNES, 15.4 km away at 50 m, over 29 summers. ^[10]

An average of 788 mm of rain a year, spread over 130 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at TROISVILLES, 10.4 km away at 125 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 — 59541/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59541/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59541/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59541/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59541
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59571
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
Montceaux	01	466 km S	1,196	39.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 69 %
Châlonvillars	70	372 km SE	1,264	35.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Landres	54	193 km SE	989	57.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 89 %
Saint-Marcel	56	506 km SW	1,155	44.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Hondeghem	59	93 km NW	916	45.3	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Ars-Laquenexy	57	235 km SE	934	47.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Hondeghem	59	93 km NW	916	45.3	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Landres	54	193 km SE	989	57.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 89 %
Ars-Laquenexy	57	235 km SE	934	47.1	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Châlonvillars	70	372 km SE	1,264	35.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Montceaux	01	466 km S	1,196	39.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 59 % · winter 69 %
Saint-Marcel	56	506 km SW	1,155	44.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · 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 Saint-Python'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-Marcel	56	506 km SW	1,155	44.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Coltainville	28	234 km SW	915	45.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Pontarmé	60	133 km SW	905	46.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Autreville	02	70 km S	777	43.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Acy	02	94 km S	1,004	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Itancourt	02	44 km S	999	42	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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