Wattignies

Nord · Métropole Européenne de Lille · INSEE 59648

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

Partly served 46.4/100 · confidence: low· Better served than 5 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Wattignies (INSEE 59648) is in Nord (59), part of Métropole Européenne de Lille. Population 15,525 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Grands centres urbains (level 1). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 46.4/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: low (sources disagree on Grocery (épicerie / supérette); sources disagree on Pharmacy).

Better served than 5 % of the 1,572 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	0.29	25	7.22
Social	0.54	20	10.86
Education	0.53	10	5.28
Health	0.52	10	5.24
Public & culture	0.06	5	0.29
Population trend	0.57	10	5.68
Housing mix	0.98	5	4.9

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 5 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 3 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 3 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]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BWL · LES DELICES DE WATTIGNIES). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (LES BOUCHERIES DU BOCAGE). ^[3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (SAS FM DESTOCK · PLACE MARKET). ^[3,4]

6 × Supermarket (LIDL · ALDI MARCHE BOIS GRENIER · CARREFOUR · CARREFOUR EXPRESS · SEGIS 2). ^[3,4]

1 × Fishmonger (L'ESPADON POISSONNERIE). ^[3,4]

16 × Restaurant (ZAHRA RESTAURATION · SAFX · PIZZA HUT · YUWIKI SUSHI). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (LA GITANE · LE CHIQUITO). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE LA FONTAINE). ^[3]

6 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE JEAN MACE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE SIMONE VEIL · ECOLE PRIMAIRE GEORGE SAND · GROUPE SCOLAIRE MOZART - PASTEUR - SEVIGNE · GROUPE SCOLAIRE JOSEPHINE BAKER). ^[3]

2 × Collège (COLLEGE JEAN MOULIN · COLLEGE VOLTAIRE). ^[3]

14 × GP (médecin généraliste) (FANNY SARRAZIN, MÉDECIN · ZOUINA AMRANI, MÉDECIN · FRANÇOISE CUVILLIER-PRZYGODZKI, MÉDECIN · STÉPHANE DUBOIS, MÉDECIN · OLIVIER MARAIN, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

2 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE DEMEY VINCENT · PHARMACIE 104). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

4 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE VOLTAIRE · SALLE R GARROS · COMPLEXE SALLE PIERRE DE COUBERTIN · CREPS WATTIGNIES HAUTS DE FRANCE). ^[3]

8 × Bank (CAISSE DE CREDIT MUTUEL DE WATTIGNIES · CAISSE REGIONALE DU CREDIT MUTUEL NORD EUROPE · AGENCE WATTIGNIES · CAISSE REG CREDIT AGRIC MUT NORD FRANCE · BANQUE CIC NORD OUEST). ^[3]

12 × Hairdresser (SALON JACQUES ET YVETTE · KIC). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Hotel (HÔTEL DU CENTRE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 1 × Butcher (boucherie), 3 × Restaurant, 3 × Pharmacy, 1 × Bank.

Not found in the commune: Library. ^[3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	BWL · LES DELICES DE WATTIGNIES	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	LES BOUCHERIES DU BOCAGE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	SAS FM DESTOCK · PLACE MARKET	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Supermarket	6	LIDL · ALDI MARCHE BOIS GRENIER · CARREFOUR · CARREFOUR EXPRESS · SEGIS 2	INSEE BPE 6 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	1	L'ESPADON POISSONNERIE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Restaurant	16	ZAHRA RESTAURATION · SAFX · PIZZA HUT · YUWIKI SUSHI	INSEE BPE 16 / INSEE SIRENE 21 [3,4]
Café / bar	2	LA GITANE · LE CHIQUITO	INSEE SIRENE 2 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE LA FONTAINE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	6	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE JEAN MACE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE SIMONE VEIL · ECOLE PRIMAIRE GEORGE SAND · GROUPE SCOLAIRE MOZART - PASTEUR - SEVIGNE · GROUPE SCOLAIRE JOSEPHINE BAKER	INSEE BPE 6 [3]
Collège	2	COLLEGE JEAN MOULIN · COLLEGE VOLTAIRE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	14	FANNY SARRAZIN, MÉDECIN · ZOUINA AMRANI, MÉDECIN · FRANÇOISE CUVILLIER-PRZYGODZKI, MÉDECIN · STÉPHANE DUBOIS, MÉDECIN · OLIVIER MARAIN, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 14 [3]
Pharmacy	2	PHARMACIE DEMEY VINCENT · PHARMACIE 104	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	4	SALLE VOLTAIRE · SALLE R GARROS · COMPLEXE SALLE PIERRE DE COUBERTIN · CREPS WATTIGNIES HAUTS DE FRANCE	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	8	CAISSE DE CREDIT MUTUEL DE WATTIGNIES · CAISSE REGIONALE DU CREDIT MUTUEL NORD EUROPE · AGENCE WATTIGNIES · CAISSE REG CREDIT AGRIC MUT NORD FRANCE · BANQUE CIC NORD OUEST	INSEE BPE 8 [3]
Hairdresser	12	SALON JACQUES ET YVETTE · KIC	INSEE BPE 12 / INSEE SIRENE 18 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel	1	HÔTEL DU CENTRE	INSEE BPE 1 / 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: 5,969 2023: 15,525 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 13,376 (2012) → 15,525 (2023): 16.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 14,533 (1990) → 15,525 (2023): 6.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 7,505, of which 1 % second homes and 4.7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school, GP Pharmacy — 0.6 km SBakery — 0.7 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 (Wattignies): 0.7 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Wattignies): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Wattignies): 0.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Wattignies): 0.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Wattignies): 0.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 7.5

Days at or below 0 °C 35.1

Muggy days a summer 0.8

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 8 days a year at or above 30 °C and 35 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the LILLE-LESQUIN weather station, 3.8 km away at 47 m; the village itself is at 40 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at LILLE-LESQUIN, 3.8 km away at 47 m, over 30 summers. ^[9]

An average of 738 mm of rain a year, spread over 126 days — about 5.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at LILLE-LESQUIN, 3.8 km away at 47 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Grocery (épicerie / supérette)

sources disagree on Pharmacy

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59648/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59648/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59648/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 59648/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59648
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
Woippy	57	274 km SE	14,967	63.1	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Bois-Guillaume	76	186 km SW	14,539	55.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Ostwald	67	405 km SE	13,946	51.5	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-André-lez-Lille	59	8.2 km N	13,233	54.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Hem	59	12 km NE	18,582	54.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Hœnheim	67	403 km SE	11,742	44	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-André-lez-Lille	59	8.2 km N	13,233	54.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Hem	59	12 km NE	18,582	54.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Bois-Guillaume	76	186 km SW	14,539	55.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Woippy	57	274 km SE	14,967	63.1	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Hœnheim	67	403 km SE	11,742	44	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Ostwald	67	405 km SE	13,946	51.5	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Wattignies'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
Bois-Guillaume	76	186 km SW	14,539	55.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-André-lez-Lille	59	8.2 km N	13,233	54.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Hem	59	12 km NE	18,582	54.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Croix	59	13 km NE	20,566	64	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Lucé	28	265 km SW	15,921	53.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %
Arnouville	95	183 km S	15,023	70.1	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %

Elsewhere

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