Écoust-Saint-Mein

Pas-de-Calais · CC du Sud Artois · INSEE 62285

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

Few services 28.3/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 55 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Écoust-Saint-Mein (INSEE 62285) is in Pas-de-Calais (62), part of CC du Sud Artois. Population 485 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 28.3/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 55 % of the 17,863 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	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.59	10	5.95
Housing mix	0.98	5	4.9

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 1 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 × Bakery (boulangerie) (O'FOURNIL). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE JEAN MOULIN RPI 75). ^[3]

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE INTERCOMMUNALE). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (KELLY COIFFURE · PASCALE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	O'FOURNIL	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	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE JEAN MOULIN RPI 75	INSEE BPE 1 [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	1	BIBLIOTHÈQUE INTERCOMMUNALE	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	KELLY COIFFURE · PASCALE COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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: 466 peak 2012: 506 2023: 485 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 506 (2012) → 485 (2023): -4.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 443 (1990) → 485 (2023): 9.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 207, of which 1 % second homes and 5.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 0.5 km SEPharmacy — 2.6 km NWGP — 3.1 km NWFood shop — 6.5 km E 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 (Écoust-Saint-Mein): 0.5 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Pronville-en-Artois): 6.5 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Croisilles): 3.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Croisilles): 2.6 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Écoust-Saint-Mein): 0.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 7.2

Days at or below 0 °C 40.8

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 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 41 days at or below 0 °C, over 29 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the ARRAS weather station, 8.7 km away at 74 m; the village itself is at 96 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at ARRAS, 8.7 km away at 74 m, over 29 summers. ^[11]

An average of 736 mm of rain a year, spread over 133 days — about 5.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at QUEANT, 5.7 km away at 75 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 — 62285/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62285/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62285/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62285/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62285
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62671
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62259
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
Padoux	88	339 km SE	488	28.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 54 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Genis-sur-Menthon	01	461 km S	490	32.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 36 % · winter 70 %
Bonlier	60	96 km SW	467	31.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Boiry-Notre-Dame	62	10 km N	450	27.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Coulommes	77	144 km S	542	33	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Escœuilles	62	92 km NW	461	31.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Boiry-Notre-Dame	62	10 km N	450	27.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Escœuilles	62	92 km NW	461	31.3	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 81 % · humidity 93 %
Bonlier	60	96 km SW	467	31.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 84 % · humidity 100 %
Coulommes	77	144 km S	542	33	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Padoux	88	339 km SE	488	28.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 54 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Genis-sur-Menthon	01	461 km S	490	32.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 36 % · winter 70 %

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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 Écoust-Saint-Mein'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
Boiry-Notre-Dame	62	10 km N	450	27.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Fresne-le-Plan	76	144 km SW	554	32.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Savy	02	44 km SE	618	25.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Sommereux	60	86 km SW	481	30.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Auger-Saint-Vincent	60	107 km S	515	24.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Génicourt	95	136 km SW	514	34.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %

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