Health in Socx: care nearby, not graded
Over ten years, 2016 to 2025, Socx recorded 70 deaths among its residents; France’s rates for people of the same ages and sex predict 84: 17% fewer. Socx has fewer than 1,000 residents, too few deaths to grade health fairly, so this page shows care nearby and the area’s figures.
Getting care in Socx
Distances are in a straight line from the town center to the nearest site in INSEE’s amenity directory (BPE 2025).
Road time: DREES, access to emergency care at 31 December 2019, the latest published; a site opened or closed since is not in it. Not graded.
GPs within reach of Socx offer 4.8 consultations a year per resident
Access to five professions (DREES APL 2024), and who practices in the town (BPE 2025).
Within reach, against the median commune · median commune in France = 100
| In Socx | Number | Per 10,000 residents |
|---|---|---|
| GPs | 5 | 57.5 |
| Pharmacies | 0 | 0 |
| Dentists | 0 | 0 |
| Nurses | 1 | 11.5 |
| Physiotherapists | 7 | 80.6 |
| Midwives | 1 | 11.5 |
| Health centers | 0 | 0 |
APL (accessibilité potentielle localisée) is the health ministry’s measure of how much care is within reach: the professionals in the commune and nearby, weighted by distance and by how much each works, against the residents’ needs by age. It counts where professionals practice, not whether they take new patients. Under 2.5 GP consultations a year is the ministry’s line for an under-served commune; the median compared commune has 3.5.
GPs: consultations a year per resident, standardized for age. Others: full-time equivalents per 100,000 residents. Not graded.
The intercommunality and the département
France publishes these for the intercommunality (EPCI) and the département, not the town: Socx shares them with its neighbors. Shown for context, not graded.
Intercommunality (EPCI): Communauté de communes des Hauts de Flandre
Deaths a year per 100,000 · 2020–2022
All the figures
| Deaths per 100,000 | Hospital stays per 100,000 | Adults treated, % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coronary heart disease | 51 61 | 339 459 | 5.0 5.4 |
| Stroke | 77 59 | 247 223 | 2.0 1.9 |
| Heart failure | 91 50 | 425 351 | 2.6 2.5 |
Small figures: the median intercommunality. Age-standardized. Santé publique France, Odissé: deaths 2020–2022, hospital stays 2021–2023, adults treated 2022.
Life expectancy in Nord
At 60, women in Nord can expect 26.7 more years and men 22.5. INSEE publishes life expectancy for départements, not towns.
Life expectancy: INSEE, 2025, provisional.
Health in Socx’s neighbors
Towns of 2,500+ within 18 miles, colored by Health Grade. Tap one to open its health page.
| Town | Deaths per 100 expected* | Emergency | Health |
|---|---|---|---|
| Socx | 83 | 11 km | — |
| Bergues 3,525 · 3.5 km | 113 | 8.2 km | D |
| Hoymille 3,259 · 4.3 km | 84 | 8.1 km | B |
| Wormhout 5,584 · 7 km | 87 | 18 km | B− |
| Cappelle-la-Grande 7,839 · 7.9 km | 109 | 4.9 km | D |
| Téteghem-Coudekerque-Village 8,247 · 9.1 km | 108 | 3.3 km | D |
| Coudekerque-Branche 20,787 · 9.7 km | 110 | 2 km | D |
* 2016–2025, after the care-home adjustment.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deaths at each age. A town of retired people has more deaths than a town of students, whatever its health. So we compare each town’s deaths with the number France’s death rates for each age and sex would give its residents. 100 means deaths at France’s rates; 110 means 10% more.
- Care homes. The care-home step is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic: one factor for the whole country, fitted on how death ratios rise with care-home places per resident aged 80+. It makes the comparison fairer, but it is a model, and a town’s own care homes may differ from the average.
- How sure. Small towns have few deaths, so chance moves their ratio. The range under the grade shows where the town would rank nine times in ten if deaths were drawn again. When it spans more than 40 points, the grade is marked less sure (≈).
- Where people die. Deaths count where the person lived, not where they died, so a hospital town isn’t penalized for its hospital.
- Not graded. Distances, APL, the intercommunality’s heart and stroke figures and the département’s life expectancy are shown for context; they don’t change the grade.
- What France doesn’t publish. Unlike the UK, France publishes no life expectancy by town or neighborhood, no waiting times by hospital, no patient survey by GP practice and no census question on health.
Questions about health in Socx
Why does Socx have no Health Grade?
The grade compares deaths at each age over ten years, and a commune of fewer than 1,000 residents has too few deaths for chance not to decide its place. Care nearby is shown instead.
Where is the nearest emergency department to Socx?
At Centre hospitalier de Dunkerque, 11 km away in a straight line. The nearest maternity unit is at Centre hospitalier de Dunkerque, 11 km away. In an emergency, call 15 (SAMU) or 112.
Is it easy to find a GP in Socx?
Socx has 5 GPs and 0 pharmacies. GPs within reach offer 4.8 consultations a year per resident (median compared commune 3.5); under 2.5 counts as under-served. Whether a doctor takes new patients isn’t published.
What is life expectancy in Socx?
INSEE doesn’t publish it by town. In Nord, it is 84.5 years for women and 78.8 for men (2025, provisional); France 85.9 and 80.3.
Sources: INSEE, deaths by commune of residence 2016–2025 · INSEE, population censuses 2012, 2017, 2023 · Eurostat, deaths and population by age and sex (© European Union) · INSEE, permanent amenity directory (BPE) 2025 · DREES, APL 2024 and access to emergency care 2019 · Santé publique France, Odissé · INSEE, life expectancy by département 2025 · INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · TownRatings grades and the care-home adjustment: our own modeling, ranking French towns against each other only, updated November 4, 2026. Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab) unless stated.
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.