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Hallines

Pas-de-Calais · CA du Pays de Saint-Omer · INSEE 62403

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

Few services 26.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 17 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Hallines (INSEE 62403) is in Pas-de-Calais (62), part of CA du Pays de Saint-Omer. Population 1,196 (2023). [1]

INSEE density class: Ceintures urbaines (level 4). [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/62403-hallines

Vitality score

Vitality score 26.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 17 % of the 13,234 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0.13253.28
Social0.2203.93
Education0.39103.93
Health0.32103.16
Public & culture050
Population trend0.36103.57
Housing mix0.9754.87

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 of 6
Eating out 0 of 1
Cafés and bars 1 of 1
Schools 1 of 3
Health 1 of 4
Public services 0 of 1
Culture 0 of 2
Sport 1 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 × Bakery (boulangerie) (AUX DELICES D HALLINES). [3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE CAFE DE LA MAIRIE). [4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE FERRY-BREL). [3]

2 × Pharmacy. [3,4]

1 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE DES SPORTS). [3]

1 × Hairdresser (UN HAIR DE GATATE). [3,4]

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

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)1AUX DELICES D HALLINESINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar1LE CAFE DE LA MAIRIEINSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)1ECOLE PRIMAIRE FERRY-BRELINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy2INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall1SALLE DES SPORTSINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser1UN HAIR DE GATATEINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite0INSEE 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: 979 peak 1990: 1,396 2023: 1,196 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,251 (2012) → 1,196 (2023): -4.4 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 1,396 (1990) → 1,196 (2023): -14.3 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 537, of which 1.3 % second homes and 3.4 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

2.5 km5 kmFood shop — 1.2 km E (Wizernes)GP — 2.6 km SE (Helfaut)Pharmacy — 2.6 km SE (Helfaut)
In the commune Bakery, Primary school Food shop — 1.2 km EGP — 2.6 km SEPharmacy — 2.6 km SE 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 (Hallines): 0.1 km to the south-west (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Wizernes): 1.2 km to the east (straight line). [9]

GP (Helfaut): 2.6 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Helfaut): 2.6 km to the south-east (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Hallines): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). [8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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, 11.2 km away at 145 m; the village itself is at 39 m. [11]

The village sits 106 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, 19 km away at 115 m, over 30 summers. [11]

That station sits 76 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, 11.2 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

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62403/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62403/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62403/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62403/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 62403
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 62902
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 62423
  11. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Fontaine-au-Pire59105 km SE1,21425.6Few servicesno figures
Magny-Vernois70458 km SE1,37228.4Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 23 % · humidity 93 %
Blaincourt-lès-Précy60166 km S1,18928Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Floringhem6228 km SE87738.8Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Brières-les-Scellés91250 km S1,18627.8Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Beaucé35359 km SW1,25631Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
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CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Floringhem6228 km SE87738.8Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 76 % · humidity 93 %
Fontaine-au-Pire59105 km SE1,21425.6Few servicesno figures
Blaincourt-lès-Précy60166 km S1,18928Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 61 % · humidity 100 %
Brières-les-Scellés91250 km S1,18627.8Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Beaucé35359 km SW1,25631Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Magny-Vernois70458 km SE1,37228.4Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 23 % · 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 Hallines'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Beaucé35359 km SW1,25631Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Grainville-sur-Odon14263 km SW1,10525.1Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Tourville-sur-Odon14261 km SW1,15343Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Fontenay76193 km SW1,76625.9Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Sotteville-sous-le-Val76173 km SW81231.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Cresserons14242 km SW1,06828.8Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %