Selles

Pas-de-Calais · CC de Desvres-Samer · INSEE 62786

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

Few services 33.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 84 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Selles (INSEE 62786) is in Pas-de-Calais (62), part of CC de Desvres-Samer. Population 299 (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 33.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 84 % of the 17,839 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	0.21	25	5.27
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.58	10	5.79
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.93

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE DE SELLES). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (LA GRANGE DE MA CAMPAGNE). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE RPI 78). ^[3]

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	BOULANGERIE DE SELLES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	LA GRANGE DE MA CAMPAGNE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE RPI 78	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	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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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: 314 peak 2017: 333 2023: 299 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 323 (2012) → 299 (2023): -7.4 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 277 (1990) → 299 (2023): 7.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 139, of which 0.7 % second homes and 7.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery Primary school — 0.9 km NEFood shop — 3.5 km SGP — 5.0 km SWPharmacy — 5.5 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 (Selles): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Vieil-Moutier): 3.5 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Desvres): 5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Desvres): 5.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Selles): 0.9 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 5.1

Days at or below 0 °C 23.4

Muggy days a summer 1.9

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 5 days a year at or above 30 °C and 23 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the BAINGHEN_SAPC weather station, 5.7 km away at 117 m; the village itself is at 66 m. ^[11]

The village sits 51 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, 9 km away at 185 m, over 12 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 119 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 1,136 mm of rain a year, spread over 149 days — about 7.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at BAINGHEN_SAPC, 5.7 km away at 117 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 — 62786/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62786/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62786/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62786/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62786
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62853
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
Roupeldange	57	367 km SE	326	31	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 27 %
Tagsdorf	68	521 km SE	325	38.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 43 % · humidity 93 %
Boulogne-sur-Helpe	59	158 km SE	291	31.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Chavannes-les-Grands	90	510 km SE	345	34.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 34 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Maurice	67	473 km SE	332	32.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 46 % · humidity 100 %
Petitmagny	90	491 km SE	315	34.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 35 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Boulogne-sur-Helpe	59	158 km SE	291	31.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 62 % · humidity 93 %
Roupeldange	57	367 km SE	326	31	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 79 % · winter 27 %
Saint-Maurice	67	473 km SE	332	32.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 46 % · winter 46 % · humidity 100 %
Petitmagny	90	491 km SE	315	34.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 35 % · humidity 93 %
Chavannes-les-Grands	90	510 km SE	345	34.3	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 34 % · humidity 93 %
Tagsdorf	68	521 km SE	325	38.2	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 69 % · winter 43 % · humidity 93 %

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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 Selles'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
Saint-Léger-des-Prés	35	362 km SW	293	28	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Estrée	62	24 km S	304	27.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Cormont	62	19 km SW	309	30.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Gouy-en-Artois	62	70 km SE	327	24.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Hubersent	62	18 km SW	272	28.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Lingèvres	14	250 km SW	448	32	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 93 %

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