Socx

Nord · CC des Hauts de Flandre · INSEE 59570

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

Partly served 43.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 76 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Socx (INSEE 59570) is in Nord (59), part of CC des Hauts de Flandre. Population 869 (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/59570-socx

Vitality score

Vitality score 43.5/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 76 % of the 15,180 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.5	10	4.97
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.4	10	4.03
Housing mix	0.96	5	4.8

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 1 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) (LA MIE DES SAVEURS). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (LIDL). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LAFFINE BOUCHE). ^[3,4]

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

5 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ELODIE MARTEL, MÉDECIN · ANNE LESCIEUX, MÉDECIN · VINCENT VERDOUCQ, MÉDECIN · LUCIE CHARTIER, MÉDECIN · AMÉLIE VERDOUCQ-IMBERT, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (UN TEMPS POUR SOI). ^[3,4]

2 × Hotel (BERG'HÔTEL · MOTEL 25). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	LA MIE DES SAVEURS	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	LIDL	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	LAFFINE BOUCHE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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)	5	ELODIE MARTEL, MÉDECIN · ANNE LESCIEUX, MÉDECIN · VINCENT VERDOUCQ, MÉDECIN · LUCIE CHARTIER, MÉDECIN · AMÉLIE VERDOUCQ-IMBERT, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 5 [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	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	1	UN TEMPS POUR SOI	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	2	BERG'HÔTEL · MOTEL 25	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 710 peak 2007: 987 2023: 869 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 939 (2012) → 869 (2023): -7.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 962 (1990) → 869 (2023): -9.7 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 407, of which 2 % second homes and 4.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 2.5 km NPharmacy — 2.6 km NGP — 2.7 km N 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 (Socx): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Quaëdypre): 2.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

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

Pharmacy (Quaëdypre): 2.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Socx): 0.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 2▸

Days at or below 0 °C 15.2▸

Muggy days a summer 2.3

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 2 days a year at or above 30 °C and 15 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the DUNKERQUE weather station, 14.6 km away at 11 m; the village itself is at 29 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at DUNKERQUE, 14.6 km away at 11 m, over 29 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, 11.8 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 — 59570/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59570/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59570/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59570/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59570
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59478
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
Rettel	57	324 km SE	869	45.6	Partly served	no figures
Les Ayvelles	08	214 km SE	851	42.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 41 % · humidity 86 %
Montagny-lès-Beaune	21	473 km SE	777	38.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %
Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines	78	261 km S	850	43.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %
Cauneille	40	863 km S	804	44.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 77 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Castin	64	865 km S	862	32.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 74 % · humidity 64 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Les Ayvelles	08	214 km SE	851	42.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 41 % · humidity 86 %
Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines	78	261 km S	850	43.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 46 % · humidity 93 %
Rettel	57	324 km SE	869	45.6	Partly served	no figures
Montagny-lès-Beaune	21	473 km SE	777	38.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 51 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %
Cauneille	40	863 km S	804	44.7	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 41 % · winter 77 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Castin	64	865 km S	862	32.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 74 % · humidity 64 %

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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 Socx'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-Aubin-le-Cauf	76	148 km SW	843	26.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Foucarmont	76	135 km SW	816	60.9	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Bully	76	154 km SW	863	46.5	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Toutainville	27	224 km SW	1,274	31.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Mannevillette	76	218 km SW	935	31.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Craywick	59	14 km W	791	35.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %

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