Alincthun

Pas-de-Calais · CC de Desvres-Samer · INSEE 62022

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

Few services 22.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 56 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Alincthun (INSEE 62022) is in Pas-de-Calais (62), part of CC de Desvres-Samer. Population 291 (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/62022-alincthun

Vitality score

Vitality score 22.6/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 56 % of the 17,748 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.3	10	2.99
Housing mix	0.92	5	4.6

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 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 1 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (INTERMARCHE). ^[3,4]

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

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), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Restaurant, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), 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	1	INTERMARCHE	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	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	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: 314 peak 1990: 364 2023: 291 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 334 (2012) → 291 (2023): -12.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 364 (1990) → 291 (2023): -20.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 150, of which 4 % second homes and 7.3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 0.9 km NGP — 2.4 km NEBakery — 3.3 km NEPharmacy — 6.7 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 (Colembert): 3.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Alincthun): 0.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Colembert): 2.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (La Capelle-lès-Boulogne): 6.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Alincthun): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 4.9

Days at or below 0 °C 27.2

Muggy days a summer 1.6

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 5 days a year at or above 30 °C and 27 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the BAINGHEN_SAPC weather station, 7.6 km away at 117 m; the village itself is at 97 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at DESVRES, 10.8 km away at 185 m, over 12 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 88 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[11]

An average of 1,136 mm of rain a year, spread over 149 days — about 7.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at BAINGHEN_SAPC, 7.6 km away at 117 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 — 62022/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62022/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62022/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62022/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62230
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62022
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62908
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
Leubringhen	62	15 km N	293	23.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Buire-sur-l'Ancre	80	102 km SE	294	18.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Allainville	78	253 km S	281	19.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Ouen-le-Mauger	76	124 km SW	282	24.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Recologne-lès-Rioz	70	473 km SE	288	24.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 38 % · humidity 93 %
Valescourt	60	146 km S	295	19.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Leubringhen	62	15 km N	293	23.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Buire-sur-l'Ancre	80	102 km SE	294	18.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Ouen-le-Mauger	76	124 km SW	282	24.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Valescourt	60	146 km S	295	19.1	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 55 % · humidity 93 %
Allainville	78	253 km S	281	19.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Recologne-lès-Rioz	70	473 km SE	288	24.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 38 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Alincthun'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
Leubringhen	62	15 km N	293	23.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Buire-sur-l'Ancre	80	102 km SE	294	18.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Ouen-le-Mauger	76	124 km SW	282	24.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Monchy-Cayeux	62	47 km SE	285	18.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Sempy	62	27 km S	324	24.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Senlecques	62	13 km SE	251	20.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

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