Longfossé

Pas-de-Calais · CC de Desvres-Samer · INSEE 62524

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

Partly served 41.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 54 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Longfossé (INSEE 62524) is in Pas-de-Calais (62), part of CC de Desvres-Samer. Population 1,528 (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/62524-longfosse

Vitality score

Vitality score 41.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 54 % of the 11,473 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	0.47	25	11.83
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.75	10	7.55
Housing mix	0.97	5	4.85

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 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 1 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 2 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). ^[3]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (HENRI BOUCHER). ^[3,4]

2 × Supermarket (ALDI MARCHE · LECLERC). ^[3,4]

2 × Restaurant (D.G. RESTAURATION · CHEZ LYV). ^[3,4]

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

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

3 × Hairdresser (HAIR PASSION · LA CLE DE LA BEAUTE). ^[3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 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		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	HENRI BOUCHER	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Supermarket	2	ALDI MARCHE · LECLERC	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	2	D.G. RESTAURATION · CHEZ LYV	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	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	3	HAIR PASSION · LA CLE DE LA BEAUTE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 1,151 2023: 1,528 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,420 (2012) → 1,528 (2023): 7.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,218 (1990) → 1,528 (2023): 25.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 680, of which 1.5 % second homes and 6.6 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 1.7 km NEFood shop — 2.2 km NEPharmacy — 2.6 km NEGP — 2.9 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 (Longfossé): 1.7 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Longfossé): 2.2 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Doudeauville): 2.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

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

Primary school (Longfossé): 0 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 3.5▸

Days at or below 0 °C 29.1

Muggy days a summer 1.7

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 4 days a year at or above 30 °C and 29 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the DESVRES weather station, 2.2 km away at 185 m; the village itself is at 89 m. ^[11]

The village sits 96 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 2 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at DESVRES, 2.2 km away at 185 m, over 12 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 96 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 1,152 mm of rain a year, spread over 150 days — about 7.7 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at DESVRES, 2.2 km away at 185 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 — 62524/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62524/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62524/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62524/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62524
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62273
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62268
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
Porte du Ried	68	495 km SE	1,971	44.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %
Bailleval	60	152 km S	1,483	29.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Menneval	27	192 km SW	1,527	49.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Lieu-Saint-Amand	59	117 km E	1,462	39	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Veyras	07	689 km S	1,505	26	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Jean-de-Thouars	79	436 km S	1,328	28.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 41 % · winter 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Lieu-Saint-Amand	59	117 km E	1,462	39	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 77 % · humidity 93 %
Bailleval	60	152 km S	1,483	29.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Menneval	27	192 km SW	1,527	49.1	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 61 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Jean-de-Thouars	79	436 km S	1,328	28.4	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.summer 41 % · winter 93 %
Porte du Ried	68	495 km SE	1,971	44.3	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 45 % · humidity 100 %
Veyras	07	689 km S	1,505	26	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 44 % · winter 89 % · 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 Longfossé'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
Lambres-lez-Aire	62	42 km E	1,070	39.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Tressin	59	98 km E	1,386	40.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Guarbecque	62	48 km E	1,381	35.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Vaudricourt	62	60 km E	1,138	36.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Woincourt	80	68 km S	1,302	52.8	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Labeuvrière	62	55 km E	1,648	37.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %

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