Elnes

Pas-de-Calais · CC du Pays de Lumbres · INSEE 62292

A school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop.

Few services 30.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 41 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Elnes (INSEE 62292) is in Pas-de-Calais (62), part of CC du Pays de Lumbres. Population 836 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/62292-elnes

Vitality score

Vitality score 30.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 41 % of the 15,369 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	25	0
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.71	10	7.08
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.86

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 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 0 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (CAFE DU CENTRE). ^[4]

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

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE MUNICIPALE). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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)	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	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	1	CAFE DU CENTRE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE HENRI MATISSE	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	MÉDIATHÈQUE MUNICIPALE	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 529 peak 2012: 943 2023: 836 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 943 (2012) → 836 (2023): -11.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 692 (1990) → 836 (2023): 20.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 367, of which 1.4 % second homes and 4.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 1.5 km NFood shop — 1.9 km NGP — 2.2 km NWPharmacy — 8.1 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 (Lumbres): 1.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Lumbres): 1.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Lumbres): 2.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Helfaut): 8.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Elnes): 0 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 5.1

Days at or below 0 °C 22.4

Muggy days a summer 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 5 days a year at or above 30 °C and 22 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the NIELLES-LES-BLEQUIN_SAPC weather station, 5.1 km away at 145 m; the village itself is at 47 m. ^[11]

The village sits 98 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.71 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at RADINGHEM, 15.6 km away at 115 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 68 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 1,013 mm of rain a year, spread over 141 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at NIELLES-LES-BLEQUIN_SAPC, 5.1 km away at 145 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 — 62292/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62292/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62292/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62292/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62534
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62423
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62292
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
Saint-Hilaire-Cottes	62	24 km SE	830	29.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Couvrot	51	278 km SE	786	25.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Mont-Cauvaire	76	144 km SW	898	36.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 74 %
Vers-sur-Selle	80	94 km S	929	31.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Fressain	59	88 km SE	919	31.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Marcq-en-Ostrevent	59	90 km SE	741	33.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Saint-Hilaire-Cottes	62	24 km SE	830	29.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Fressain	59	88 km SE	919	31.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 58 % · humidity 100 %
Marcq-en-Ostrevent	59	90 km SE	741	33.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Vers-sur-Selle	80	94 km S	929	31.3	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Mont-Cauvaire	76	144 km SW	898	36.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 74 %
Couvrot	51	278 km SE	786	25.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 61 % · 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 Elnes'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
Subles	14	262 km SW	690	33.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Bettencourt-Saint-Ouen	80	74 km S	605	34.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Savy-Berlette	62	49 km SE	929	37.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Strazeele	59	36 km E	942	41.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Le Fresne-Camilly	14	246 km SW	951	25.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Caouënnec-Lanvézéac	22	453 km SW	899	43.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %

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