Sars-Poteries

Nord · CC Coeur de l'Avesnois · INSEE 59555

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

Partly served 45.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 66 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sars-Poteries (INSEE 59555) is in Nord (59), part of CC Coeur de l'Avesnois. Population 1,402 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-25 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/59555-sars-poteries

Vitality score

Vitality score 45.3/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 66 % of the 12,094 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	0.59	20	11.7
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.39	5	1.97
Population trend	0.44	10	4.37
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.82

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 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 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE CARLIER). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (CARREFOUR CONTACT). ^[3,4]

3 × Restaurant (L AFFUT · NATURELLA PIZZA · DELI PIZZA). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE SAINT LAURENT). ^[4]

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

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (CATHERINE MAIRESSE, MÉDECIN · SOPHIE GILLET-MAIRESSE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DE SARS). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SARS POTERIES LPAC AP). ^[3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE INTERCOMMUNALE SARS POTERIES). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (BAUDUIN FORENCE · L'ATELIER DE LAURA). ^[3,4]

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

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Nursery school (maternelle). ^[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	BOUCHERIE CARLIER	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	CARREFOUR CONTACT	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	3	L AFFUT · NATURELLA PIZZA · DELI PIZZA	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LE SAINT LAURENT	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	CATHERINE MAIRESSE, MÉDECIN · SOPHIE GILLET-MAIRESSE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE DE SARS	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	SARS POTERIES LPAC AP	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE INTERCOMMUNALE SARS POTERIES	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	2	BAUDUIN FORENCE · L'ATELIER DE LAURA	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]

Market and village life

A market is recorded here, but no source gives the day. ^[5]

Trajectory

1968: 1,863 2023: 1,402 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,509 (2012) → 1,402 (2023): -7.1 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 1,496 (1990) → 1,402 (2023): -6.3 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 721, of which 1.8 % second homes and 9.4 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 0.6 km SBakery — 0.8 km SW 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 (Beugnies): 0.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Sars-Poteries): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

GP (Sars-Poteries): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Sars-Poteries): 0.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Sars-Poteries): 0.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 7.8

Days at or below 0 °C 50.5

Muggy days a summer 1.1

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 51 days at or below 0 °C, over 20 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ST-HILAIRE-SUR-HELPE weather station, 7.7 km away at 185 m; the village itself is at 176 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at ST-HILAIRE-SUR-HELPE, 7.7 km away at 185 m, over 20 summers. ^[11]

An average of 849 mm of rain a year, spread over 137 days — about 6.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at DIMONT, 1.5 km away at 192 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 — 59555/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
DATAtourisme 2024-10— https://data.datatourisme.fr/13/e3d5ff20-7258-3b7a-93b5-546c97823a99— “Marché de producteurs aux jardins d'Eugénie”(unverified)
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59555/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59555/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59555/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59078
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59555
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
Bruyères-et-Montbérault	02	76 km S	1,411	46.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Gouzeaucourt	59	66 km W	1,413	54	Partly served	no figures
Villersexel	70	340 km SE	1,431	61.2	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Bollezeele	59	143 km NW	1,445	57.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Aubigny-en-Artois	62	104 km W	1,489	59.9	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Rabastens-de-Bigorre	65	810 km SW	1,483	56.7	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 96 % · humidity 36 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Gouzeaucourt	59	66 km W	1,413	54	Partly served	no figures
Bruyères-et-Montbérault	02	76 km S	1,411	46.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Aubigny-en-Artois	62	104 km W	1,489	59.9	Partly served	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Bollezeele	59	143 km NW	1,445	57.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Villersexel	70	340 km SE	1,431	61.2	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 72 % · humidity 93 %
Rabastens-de-Bigorre	65	810 km SW	1,483	56.7	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 96 % · humidity 36 %

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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 Sars-Poteries'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
Bruyères-et-Montbérault	02	76 km S	1,411	46.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Bollezeele	59	143 km NW	1,445	57.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Villers-Bocage	80	123 km W	1,545	61	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Briouze	61	357 km SW	1,512	64.9	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
La Haye-Pesnel	50	420 km W	1,302	54.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Vaiges	53	404 km SW	1,178	41.4	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

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