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Royon

Pas-de-Calais · CC du Haut Pays du Montreuillois · INSEE 62725

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

Few services 24.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 89 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Royon (INSEE 62725) is in Pas-de-Calais (62), part of CC du Haut Pays du Montreuillois. Population 121 (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.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/62725-royon

Vitality score

Vitality score 24.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 89 % of the 12,255 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 food0250
Social0.32206.32
Education0.63106.32
Health0100
Public & culture050
Population trend0.53105.34
Housing mix0.5552.75

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 0 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 (FAMILY TRUCK). [3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. [3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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]
Restaurant1FAMILY TRUCKINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)1ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUEINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 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 hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Fuel station0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
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: 133 peak 1975: 135 2023: 121 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 128 (2012) → 121 (2023): -5.5 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 117 (1990) → 121 (2023): 3.4 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 71, of which 22.5 % second homes and 7 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmFood shop — 6.1 km SW (Loison-sur-Créquoise)Bakery — 8.0 km S (Aubin-Saint-Vaast)GP — 8.3 km SW (Beaurainville)Pharmacy — 8.3 km SW (Maresquel-Ecquemicourt)
In the commune Primary school Food shop — 6.1 km SWBakery — 8.0 km SGP — 8.3 km SWPharmacy — 8.3 km SW 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 (Aubin-Saint-Vaast): 8 km to the south (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Loison-sur-Créquoise): 6.1 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]

GP (Beaurainville): 8.3 km to the south-west (straight line). [10]

Pharmacy (Maresquel-Ecquemicourt): 8.3 km to the south-west (straight line). [11]

Primary school (Royon): 0 km to the south (straight line). [12]

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 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 47 days at or below 0 °C, over 17 complete years in 1995–2024. [13]

Measured at the MARCONNELLE weather station, 11.2 km away at 25 m; the village itself is at 61 m. [13]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. [13]

Humidity measured at RADINGHEM, 12.2 km away at 115 m, over 30 summers. [13]

That station sits 54 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [13]

An average of 1,002 mm of rain a year, spread over 139 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. [13]

Rainfall measured at MARCONNELLE, 11.2 km away at 25 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62725/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62725/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62725/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62725/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 62046
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 62522
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 62100
  11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 62552
  12. INSEE BPE 2025 — 62725
  13. 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
Liederschiedt57423 km E11623.3Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Sougraigne11842 km S12522.4Few servicesWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %
Condes39532 km SE11722.5Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Valoreille25495 km SE12819.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 14 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Agathe-en-Donzy42543 km S12117.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Grand'Combe-des-Bois25511 km SE12522.8Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Liederschiedt57423 km E11623.3Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 73 % · humidity 93 %
Valoreille25495 km SE12819.3No daily shopsSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 14 % · humidity 93 %
Grand'Combe-des-Bois25511 km SE12522.8Few servicesSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 0 % · humidity 93 %
Condes39532 km SE11722.5Few servicesWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 62 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Sainte-Agathe-en-Donzy42543 km S12117.4No daily shopsWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 73 % · humidity 100 %
Sougraigne11842 km S12522.4Few servicesWarmer summers and milder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 54 % · winter 72 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Royon'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
Silly-la-Poterie02165 km SE11215.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Burelles02156 km SE12313.8No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Algis02145 km SE14815.2No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Serans60143 km S18422.1Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Bévy21422 km SE13323.6Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Frohmuhl67418 km SE15614.4No daily shopsMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 93 % · humidity 100 %