Sainte-Marie-Kerque

Pas-de-Calais · CC de la Région d'Audruicq · INSEE 62756

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

Few services 20.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 2 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sainte-Marie-Kerque (INSEE 62756) is in Pas-de-Calais (62), part of CC de la Région d'Audruicq. Population 1,708 (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 20.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 2 % of the 10,670 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	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.79	10	7.92
Housing mix	0.95	5	4.73

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 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 1 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 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE MARAIS DE L'ANGLE). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (SAINTE MARIE KERQUE AP). ^[3]

2 × Hairdresser (LES CISEAUX D ELO · CORINNE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (DOMAINE LA GRISE PIERRE). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, 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 [3,4]
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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE MARAIS DE L'ANGLE	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	1	SAINTE MARIE KERQUE AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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	LES CISEAUX D ELO · CORINNE COIFFURE	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	1	DOMAINE LA GRISE PIERRE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 1,228 2023: 1,708 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,520 (2012) → 1,708 (2023): 12.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,322 (1990) → 1,708 (2023): 29.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 744, of which 2.7 % second homes and 7.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 3.6 km EBakery — 4.4 km SWPharmacy — 4.5 km SWGP — 4.8 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 (Audruicq): 4.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Saint-Pierre-Brouck): 3.6 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Audruicq): 4.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Audruicq): 4.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Sainte-Marie-Kerque): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 2.4▸

Days at or below 0 °C 29.4

Muggy days a summer 0.8

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

Measured at the CALAIS-MARCK weather station, 14.3 km away at 2 m; the village itself is at 3 m. ^[11]

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

Humidity measured at CALAIS-MARCK, 14.3 km away at 2 m, over 29 summers. ^[11]

An average of 741 mm of rain a year, spread over 121 days — about 6.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CALAIS-MARCK, 14.3 km away at 2 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 — 62756/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62756/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62756/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62756/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62057
INSEE BPE 2025 — 59539
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62756
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
Laboissière-en-Thelle	60	179 km S	1,326	19.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Fossé	41	369 km S	1,254	22.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Ciers-d'Abzac	33	677 km S	1,614	24.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 96 % · humidity 0 %
Tollevast	50	306 km SW	1,654	21.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Aubiac	47	761 km S	1,174	22	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 3 % · winter 95 % · humidity 57 %
Merpins	16	610 km S	1,085	18.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 28 % · winter 85 % · humidity 57 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Laboissière-en-Thelle	60	179 km S	1,326	19.5	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 58 % · humidity 93 %
Tollevast	50	306 km SW	1,654	21.6	Few services	Similar summers, milder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 68 % · humidity 100 %
Fossé	41	369 km S	1,254	22.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 80 % · humidity 100 %
Merpins	16	610 km S	1,085	18.1	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 28 % · winter 85 % · humidity 57 %
Saint-Ciers-d'Abzac	33	677 km S	1,614	24.1	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 33 % · winter 96 % · humidity 0 %
Aubiac	47	761 km S	1,174	22	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 3 % · winter 95 % · humidity 57 %

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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 Sainte-Marie-Kerque'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
Cauville-sur-Mer	76	203 km SW	1,678	25.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Paul-du-Vernay	14	281 km SW	831	24.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Manneville-sur-Risle	27	206 km SW	1,417	29.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Tréméoc	29	567 km SW	1,503	25	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Martainville-Épreville	76	171 km S	746	23.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Epiniac	35	383 km SW	1,438	28.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

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