Bacouel-sur-Selle

Somme · CC Somme Sud-Ouest · INSEE 80050

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

Few services 30.2/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 62 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Bacouel-sur-Selle (INSEE 80050) is in Somme (80), part of CC Somme Sud-Ouest. Population 461 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[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/80050-bacouel-sur-selle

Vitality score

Vitality score 30.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 62 % of the 17,925 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	0.48	5	2.38
Population trend	0.68	10	6.76
Housing mix	0.98	5	4.9

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

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BECQUE). ^[3,4]

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

3 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE BACOUEL-SUR-SELLE · BIBLIOTHEQUE DE PONT DE METZ · BIBLIOTHEQUE DE SALEUX). ^[3]

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale. ^[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)	1	BECQUE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 PUBLIQUE	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	3	BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE BACOUEL-SUR-SELLE · BIBLIOTHEQUE DE PONT DE METZ · BIBLIOTHEQUE DE SALEUX	INSEE BPE 3 [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: 227 peak 1999: 574 2023: 461 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 465 (2012) → 461 (2023): -0.9 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 392 (1990) → 461 (2023): 17.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 201, of which 1 % second homes and 4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 3.0 km NPharmacy — 3.1 km NBakery — 3.3 km N 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 (Saleux): 3.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Bacouel-sur-Selle): 0.4 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Saleux): 3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Saleux): 3.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Bacouel-sur-Selle): 0 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 9.2

Days at or below 0 °C 52.3

Muggy days a summer 0.7

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 9 days a year at or above 30 °C and 52 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the DURY-LES-AMIENS weather station, 5.9 km away at 74 m; the village itself is at 37 m. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 1 day a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at AMIENS-GLISY, 12.3 km away at 60 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

An average of 732 mm of rain a year, spread over 130 days — about 5.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at DURY-LES-AMIENS, 5.9 km away at 74 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 80050/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 80050/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 80050/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 80050/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 80724
INSEE BPE 2025 — 80050
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
Boussières-en-Cambrésis	59	90 km NE	436	20.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Chaignay	21	335 km SE	493	24.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Alaincourt	02	83 km E	517	20.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Etting	57	369 km E	714	28.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Hesse	57	372 km E	549	24.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %
Trémont-sur-Saulx	55	238 km SE	554	19.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Alaincourt	02	83 km E	517	20.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Boussières-en-Cambrésis	59	90 km NE	436	20.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Trémont-sur-Saulx	55	238 km SE	554	19.7	No daily shops	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Chaignay	21	335 km SE	493	24.7	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 62 % · humidity 100 %
Etting	57	369 km E	714	28.1	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 59 % · humidity 100 %
Hesse	57	372 km E	549	24.8	Few services	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 82 % · winter 64 % · humidity 100 %

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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 Bacouel-sur-Selle'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
Boussières-en-Cambrésis	59	90 km NE	436	20.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 100 %
Alaincourt	02	83 km E	517	20.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Rumigny	80	4.8 km SE	613	22.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Le Mont-Saint-Adrien	60	46 km S	652	25.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Sacy-le-Petit	60	60 km SE	638	24.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 100 %
Pontoise-lès-Noyon	60	67 km SE	427	18.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %

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