Ligny-lès-Aire

Pas-de-Calais · CA de Béthune-Bruay, Artois-Lys Romane · INSEE 62512

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

Few services 24.5/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 37 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ligny-lès-Aire (INSEE 62512) is in Pas-de-Calais (62), part of CA de Béthune-Bruay, Artois-Lys Romane. Population 565 (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 24.5/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 37 % of the 17,417 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.32	10	3.16
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.66	10	6.63
Housing mix	0.94	5	4.69

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 0 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 1 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 school, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

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

1 × GP (médecin généraliste) (AMELIE LECOCQ, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (CRE-A-TIFS). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie).

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), 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]
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)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE CARNOT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	1	AMELIE LECOCQ, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 1 [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	2	CRE-A-TIFS	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [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: 536 peak 2012: 619 2023: 565 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 619 (2012) → 565 (2023): -8.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 486 (1990) → 565 (2023): 16.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 261, of which 3.1 % second homes and 6.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school GP — 1.0 km SWFood shop — 1.5 km SBakery — 3.5 km NWPharmacy — 3.8 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 (Estrée-Blanche): 3.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Westrehem): 1.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Ligny-lès-Aire): 1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Fléchin): 3.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Ligny-lès-Aire): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 7.6

Days at or below 0 °C 38

Muggy days a summer 0.5

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 8 days a year at or above 30 °C and 38 days at or below 0 °C, over 28 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the FIEFS weather station, 6.5 km away at 180 m; the village itself is at 90 m. ^[12]

The village sits 90 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at LILLERS, 10.5 km away at 19 m, over 23 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 71 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 1,097 mm of rain a year, spread over 152 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at FIEFS, 6.5 km away at 180 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62512/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62512/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62512/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62512/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62313
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62885
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62512
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62336
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
Nitting	57	397 km SE	529	22.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %
Doudeauville	62	37 km W	593	27.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Cottenchy	80	83 km S	566	24.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Le Coudray-sur-Thelle	60	140 km S	554	21.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Fresnoy-le-Luat	60	153 km S	551	24.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Rieux	76	89 km SW	583	21.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 96 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Doudeauville	62	37 km W	593	27.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Cottenchy	80	83 km S	566	24.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Rieux	76	89 km SW	583	21.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.summer 90 % · winter 96 %
Le Coudray-sur-Thelle	60	140 km S	554	21.9	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 69 % · humidity 93 %
Fresnoy-le-Luat	60	153 km S	551	24.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Nitting	57	397 km SE	529	22.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Ligny-lès-Aire'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
Doudeauville	62	37 km W	593	27.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Fresnoy-le-Luat	60	153 km S	551	24.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Muirancourt	60	112 km SE	587	21.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Épagne-Épagnette	80	64 km SW	510	17.3	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Buigny-Saint-Maclou	80	59 km SW	514	18	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Léger	62	55 km SE	520	23	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 100 %

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