Bourecq

Pas-de-Calais · CA de Béthune-Bruay, Artois-Lys Romane · INSEE 62162

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

Few services 32.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 64 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bourecq (INSEE 62162) is in Pas-de-Calais (62), part of CA de Béthune-Bruay, Artois-Lys Romane. Population 568 (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/62162-bourecq

Vitality score

Vitality score 32.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 64 % of the 17,343 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.51	10	5.14
Housing mix	0.98	5	4.92

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6

Eating out 1 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, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LE TROQUET DU BB). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (SUSHIS DU LION). ^[3,4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE RPI 85). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser (LE SALON DE CHARLY). ^[3,4]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1	LE TROQUET DU BB	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	1	SUSHIS DU LION	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE RPI 85	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	1	LE SALON DE CHARLY	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
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: 565 peak 2017: 639 2023: 568 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 597 (2012) → 568 (2023): -4.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 560 (1990) → 568 (2023): 1.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 260, of which 0.8 % second homes and 8.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 2.3 km NWGP — 2.5 km NWPharmacy — 2.5 km NW 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 (Norrent-Fontes): 2.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bourecq): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Norrent-Fontes): 2.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Norrent-Fontes): 2.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Bourecq): 0.4 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 6.9

Days at or below 0 °C 37.5

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 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 38 days at or below 0 °C, over 22 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the LILLERS weather station, 4.5 km away at 19 m; the village itself is at 31 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at LILLERS, 4.5 km away at 19 m, over 23 summers. ^[10]

An average of 691 mm of rain a year, spread over 118 days — about 5.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at LILLERS, 4.5 km away at 19 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 — 62162/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62162/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62162/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62162/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62620
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62162
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
La Flachère	38	632 km SE	449	34.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 78 %
Berche	25	466 km SE	534	20.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %
Aubigny	80	75 km S	502	18.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Varanges	21	423 km SE	678	21.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Rustroff	57	308 km SE	641	20.5	Few services	no figures
Brion	01	541 km SE	592	26.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 27 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Aubigny	80	75 km S	502	18.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Rustroff	57	308 km SE	641	20.5	Few services	no figures
Varanges	21	423 km SE	678	21.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Berche	25	466 km SE	534	20.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 54 % · humidity 93 %
Brion	01	541 km SE	592	26.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 27 % · humidity 93 %
La Flachère	38	632 km SE	449	34.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 72 % · winter 78 %

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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 Bourecq'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
Aubigny	80	75 km S	502	18.4	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Vimont	14	248 km SW	887	24.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Mittelbergheim	67	435 km SE	593	27.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Yzengremer	80	86 km SW	490	21	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Hamelet	80	74 km S	624	19.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %
Gavrus	14	266 km SW	635	39.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %

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