Castagniers

Alpes-Maritimes · Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur · INSEE 06034

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

Partly served 48.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 71 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Castagniers (INSEE 06034) is in Alpes-Maritimes (06), part of Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur. Population 1,666 (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/06034-castagniers

Vitality score

Vitality score 48.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 71 % of the 10,841 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	0.34	25	8.55
Social	0.63	20	12.58
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	0.86	10	8.56
Housing mix	0.89	5	4.43

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 1 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) (AUX PAINS DE CASTAGNIERS). ^[3,4]

2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (LES PRIMEURS DE CASTAGNIERS · LE COMPTOIR D'ADRIEN). ^[3,4]

4 × Restaurant (SOCIETE LES MOULINS · BOCCIOLESI · MAMO · AU BOUIBOUI). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (LE 202). ^[4]

2 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE LES MOULINS). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (CASTAGNIERS AP). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (HÔTEL SERVOTEL CASTAGNIERS). ^[3,4]

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

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	1	AUX PAINS DE CASTAGNIERS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	2	LES PRIMEURS DE CASTAGNIERS · LE COMPTOIR D'ADRIEN	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [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	4	SOCIETE LES MOULINS · BOCCIOLESI · MAMO · AU BOUIBOUI	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	LE 202	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	2	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE LES MOULINS	INSEE BPE 2 [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	1	CASTAGNIERS AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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 2 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	HÔTEL SERVOTEL CASTAGNIERS	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 820 2023: 1,666 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 1,540 (2012) → 1,666 (2023): 8.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,229 (1990) → 1,666 (2023): 35.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 753, of which 5.7 % second homes and 7 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Primary school Food shop — 1.2 km WGP — 1.2 km SEBakery — 1.3 km WPharmacy — 3.1 km S 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 (Castagniers): 1.3 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Castagniers): 1.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Aspremont): 1.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Colomars): 3.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Castagniers): 0 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 34.7

Days at or below 0 °C 9.9▸

Muggy days a summer 12.1▸

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 35 days a year at or above 30 °C and 10 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CARROS_SAPC weather station, 1.8 km away at 78 m; the village itself is at 330 m. ^[11]

The village sits 252 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 5.21 °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 12 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at NICE-ST ROMAN, 4.5 km away at 323 m, over 14 summers. ^[11]

An average of 812 mm of rain a year, spread over 63 days — about 12.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CARROS_SAPC, 1.8 km away at 78 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 — 06034/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 06034/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 06034/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 06034/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 06034
INSEE BPE 2025 — 06006
INSEE BPE 2025 — 06046
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
Boulleret	18	527 km NW	1,397	33.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 32 % · humidity 29 %
Le Morne-Vert	972	7,155 km W	1,718	36.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 86 % · humidity 0 %
Montferrat	83	63 km W	1,719	48.3	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 64 % · humidity 29 %
Saint-Estèphe	33	655 km W	1,638	45.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 89 % · humidity 64 %
Les Ormes	86	627 km NW	1,613	37.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 43 % · humidity 36 %
Frenelles-en-Vexin	27	752 km NW	1,686	34.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 45 % · humidity 21 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Montferrat	83	63 km W	1,719	48.3	Partly served	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 87 % · winter 64 % · humidity 29 %
Boulleret	18	527 km NW	1,397	33.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 32 % · humidity 29 %
Les Ormes	86	627 km NW	1,613	37.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 43 % · humidity 36 %
Saint-Estèphe	33	655 km W	1,638	45.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 89 % · humidity 64 %
Frenelles-en-Vexin	27	752 km NW	1,686	34.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 45 % · humidity 21 %
Le Morne-Vert	972	7,155 km W	1,718	36.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 85 % · winter 86 % · humidity 0 %

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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 Castagniers'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
Tresques	30	215 km W	1,829	38.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Moussoulens	11	407 km W	956	49.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Paul-les-Fonts	30	212 km W	1,056	36.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %
Sabran	30	217 km W	1,591	23.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Papoul	11	422 km W	835	50.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Passa	66	383 km W	1,118	28.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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