Saint-Vaast-en-Cambrésis

Nord · CA du Caudrésis et du Catésis · INSEE 59547

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

Few services 28.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 33 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Saint-Vaast-en-Cambrésis (INSEE 59547) is in Nord (59), part of CA du Caudrésis et du Catésis. Population 871 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Petites villes (level 3). ^[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/59547-saint-vaast-en-cambresis

Vitality score

Vitality score 28.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 33 % of the 15,167 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	0.43	20	8.65
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.47	10	4.66
Housing mix	0.95	5	4.76

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 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 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 and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (CAFE FRITERIE GLACET). ^[4]

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

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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 [3,4]
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	2	CAFE FRITERIE GLACET	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE HENRI WALLON	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]
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: 1,142 2023: 871 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 895 (2012) → 871 (2023): -2.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 902 (1990) → 871 (2023): -3.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 410, of which 2.4 % second homes and 12.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 1.0 km SWPharmacy — 1.0 km SWBakery — 1.3 km SWFood shop — 2.5 km W 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-Hilaire-lez-Cambrai): 1.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Avesnes-les-Aubert): 2.5 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saint-Hilaire-lez-Cambrai): 1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saint-Hilaire-lez-Cambrai): 1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Saint-Vaast-en-Cambrésis): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

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. ^[11]

Measured at the VALENCIENNES weather station, 15.4 km away at 50 m; the village itself is at 74 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at VALENCIENNES, 15.4 km away at 50 m, over 29 summers. ^[11]

An average of 788 mm of rain a year, spread over 130 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at TROISVILLES, 10.9 km away at 125 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 — 59547/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59547/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59547/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59547/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59533
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59037
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59547
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
Villiers-Saint-Denis	02	134 km S	997	29	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Angaïs	64	822 km S	885	30	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 97 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Ferréol	74	537 km SE	874	26.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 53 %
Barembach	67	335 km SE	810	32.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Gervais	95	165 km SW	878	21.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Leimbach	68	378 km SE	928	25	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Villiers-Saint-Denis	02	134 km S	997	29	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Gervais	95	165 km SW	878	21.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Barembach	67	335 km SE	810	32.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Leimbach	68	378 km SE	928	25	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Ferréol	74	537 km SE	874	26.4	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 64 % · winter 53 %
Angaïs	64	822 km S	885	30	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 51 % · winter 97 % · humidity 0 %

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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-Vaast-en-Cambrésis'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
Villiers-Saint-Denis	02	134 km S	997	29	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Barembach	67	335 km SE	810	32.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Gervais	95	165 km SW	878	21.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Béthisy-Saint-Martin	60	109 km SW	996	32	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Saulchery	02	136 km S	687	30	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Vaast-de-Longmont	60	110 km SW	654	22.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

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