Sempy

Pas-de-Calais · CC des 7 Vallées · INSEE 62787

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

Few services 24.4/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 58 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Sempy (INSEE 62787) is in Pas-de-Calais (62), part of CC des 7 Vallées. Population 324 (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 24.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 58 % of the 17,979 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	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.88	5	4.41

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 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, but no food shop and nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE RPI 44). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Primary school (élémentaire), 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)	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)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE RPI 44	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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: 238 peak 2017: 325 2023: 324 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 314 (2012) → 324 (2023): 3.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 176 (1990) → 324 (2023): 84.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 135, of which 5.9 % second homes and 5.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 5.1 km NWFood shop — 7.1 km SEGP — 7.7 km WPharmacy — 7.8 km W 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 (Montcavrel): 5.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Loison-sur-Créquoise): 7.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Neuville-sous-Montreuil): 7.7 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Neuville-sous-Montreuil): 7.8 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Sempy): 0.1 km to the east (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 3.8▸

Days at or below 0 °C 26.4

Muggy days a summer 2.2

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 26 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the DESVRES weather station, 16.3 km away at 185 m; the village itself is at 37 m. ^[12]

The village sits 148 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at DESVRES, 16.3 km away at 185 m, over 12 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 148 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.22 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 1,021 mm of rain a year, spread over 142 days — about 7.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at ATTIN, 8 km away at 21 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62787/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62787/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62787/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62787/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62585
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62522
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62610
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62787
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
Guinglange	57	369 km SE	322	23.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 31 %
Oberstinzel	57	417 km SE	316	22	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 34 % · humidity 93 %
Sauviac	33	694 km S	333	21.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 77 % · humidity 71 %
Bitry	60	148 km SE	308	19.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Bats	40	780 km S	328	23.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 97 % · humidity 14 %
Briot	60	94 km S	302	20.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 74 % · humidity 86 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Briot	60	94 km S	302	20.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 74 % · humidity 86 %
Bitry	60	148 km SE	308	19.6	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 77 % · humidity 100 %
Guinglange	57	369 km SE	322	23.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 77 % · winter 31 %
Oberstinzel	57	417 km SE	316	22	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 67 % · winter 34 % · humidity 93 %
Sauviac	33	694 km S	333	21.6	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 18 % · winter 77 % · humidity 71 %
Bats	40	780 km S	328	23.2	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 97 % · humidity 14 %

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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 Sempy'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
Leubringhen	62	42 km N	293	23.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Monchy-Cayeux	62	29 km E	285	18.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Buire-sur-l'Ancre	80	78 km SE	294	18.5	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 85 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Ouen-le-Mauger	76	105 km SW	282	24.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Saussay	76	117 km SW	376	23.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Varneville-Bretteville	76	111 km SW	327	12.7	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %

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