Surques

Pas-de-Calais · CC du Pays de Lumbres · INSEE 62803

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

Few services 31.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 55 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Surques (INSEE 62803) is in Pas-de-Calais (62), part of CC du Pays de Lumbres. Population 624 (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/62803-surques

Vitality score

Vitality score 31.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 55 % of the 16,857 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	20	0
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.99	5	4.96

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 1 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 1 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 and a school, but nowhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (CAFE BOULANGERIE BAY). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE RPI 157). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, 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	CAFE BOULANGERIE BAY	INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 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 ELEMENTAIRE RPI 157	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	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 327 peak 2017: 640 2023: 624 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 577 (2012) → 624 (2023): 8.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 364 (1990) → 624 (2023): 71.4 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 250, of which 0.4 % second homes and 7.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Bakery — 1.8 km SEGP — 5.1 km NEFood shop — 5.2 km NPharmacy — 9.8 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 (Escœuilles): 1.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Licques): 5.2 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Licques): 5.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Desvres): 9.8 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Surques): 0 km to the north (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 4.9

Days at or below 0 °C 27.2

Muggy days a summer 1.5

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 27 days at or below 0 °C, over 16 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the BAINGHEN_SAPC weather station, 1.4 km away at 117 m; the village itself is at 115 m. ^[12]

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

Humidity measured at DESVRES, 13.5 km away at 185 m, over 12 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 70 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 1,136 mm of rain a year, spread over 149 days — about 7.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at BAINGHEN_SAPC, 1.4 km away at 117 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 — 62803/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62803/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62803/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 62803/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62308
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62506
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62268
INSEE BPE 2025 — 62803
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
Matougues	51	256 km SE	636	24.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Gunstett	67	466 km SE	633	27.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 50 % · humidity 100 %
Butten	67	428 km SE	640	23.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Bussières	77	223 km SE	600	29.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 41 % · humidity 86 %
Aurice	40	793 km S	633	25.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 26 % · winter 76 % · humidity 43 %
Le Bocasse	76	139 km SW	654	25.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Le Bocasse	76	139 km SW	654	25.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Bussières	77	223 km SE	600	29.8	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 41 % · humidity 86 %
Matougues	51	256 km SE	636	24.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 74 % · winter 66 % · humidity 100 %
Butten	67	428 km SE	640	23.9	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Gunstett	67	466 km SE	633	27.5	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 50 % · humidity 100 %
Aurice	40	793 km S	633	25.5	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 26 % · winter 76 % · humidity 43 %

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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 Surques'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
Le Bocasse	76	139 km SW	654	25.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Campagne-lès-Boulonnais	62	15 km S	669	29.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %
Menneville	62	8.2 km SW	670	26.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 100 %
Courcy	50	303 km SW	639	28.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Lottinghen	62	6.3 km S	544	27.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Auppegard	76	119 km SW	695	27.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 97 % · humidity 93 %

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