Monchy-le-Preux

Pas-de-Calais · CU d'Arras · INSEE 62582

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

Few services 33.1/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 58 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Monchy-le-Preux (INSEE 62582) is in Pas-de-Calais (62), part of CU d'Arras. Population 679 (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 33.1/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 58 % of the 16,525 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	0.89	10	8.94
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.97

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 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 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 × Restaurant (MICMAC). ^[3,4]

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

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

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, 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)	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	1	MICMAC	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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	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 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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 465 2023: 679 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 676 (2012) → 679 (2023): 0.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 487 (1990) → 679 (2023): 39.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 287, of which 0.3 % second homes and 4.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 2.6 km NPharmacy — 2.9 km NFood shop — 3.7 km NWGP — 4.0 km NW 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 (Rœux): 2.6 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Fampoux): 3.7 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Fampoux): 4 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Rœux): 2.9 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Monchy-le-Preux): 0 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

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, 2.4 km away at 74 m; the village itself is at 105 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at ARRAS, 2.4 km away at 74 m, over 29 summers. ^[11]

An average of 674 mm of rain a year, spread over 122 days — about 5.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ARRAS, 2.4 km away at 74 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 — 62582/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62582/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62582/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62582/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62718
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62323
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62582
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
Caurel	51	140 km SE	693	30.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Audincthun	62	64 km NW	684	30.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Barges	21	375 km SE	652	34.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Moussey	10	245 km S	656	34.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 70 % · humidity 86 %
Brancourt-en-Laonnois	02	92 km SE	702	28.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Neewiller-près-Lauterbourg	67	404 km E	645	31.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Audincthun	62	64 km NW	684	30.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Brancourt-en-Laonnois	02	92 km SE	702	28.2	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 78 % · humidity 100 %
Caurel	51	140 km SE	693	30.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 74 % · humidity 93 %
Moussey	10	245 km S	656	34.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 70 % · humidity 86 %
Barges	21	375 km SE	652	34.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 74 % · humidity 100 %
Neewiller-près-Lauterbourg	67	404 km E	645	31.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Monchy-le-Preux'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
Audincthun	62	64 km NW	684	30.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Magnicourt-en-Comte	62	32 km NW	647	29.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Le Cours	56	484 km SW	697	33.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Léger-aux-Bois	60	88 km S	735	28.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %
Rosoy	60	107 km S	622	36.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Moustéru	22	485 km W	645	28.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %

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