Coaraze

Identity

Coaraze (INSEE 06043) is in Alpes-Maritimes (06), part of CC du Pays des Paillons. Population 827 (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 · Commune website 2026-10-25 · DATAtourisme 2026-10-22.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/06043-coaraze

Vitality score

Vitality score 44.1/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 79 % of the 15,459 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.

Services

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

1 × Restaurant (LO CASTEL). ^[3,4]

2 × Café / bar (BAR DES ARTS). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE LE BLE EN HERBE). ^[3]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE COARAZE MEDIATÈCA). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (SALLE LEYRIT). ^[3]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[3,4]

Market and village life

A market is recorded here, but no source gives the day. ^[5]

Trajectory

Population 783 (2012) → 827 (2023): 5.6 % over 10 years. ^[6,1]

Population 540 (1990) → 827 (2023): 53.1 % over 30 years. ^[7,1]

Dwellings (2023): 537, of which 19.4 % second homes and 11 % vacant. ^[8]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Levens): 5.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Food shop (Levens): 5.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Levens): 5 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (L'Escarène): 5.8 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Coaraze): 0.2 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

An average of 27 days a year at or above 30 °C and 8 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the BERRE-DES-ALPES weather station, 3.6 km away at 715 m; the village itself is at 618 m. ^[12]

The village sits 97 m below 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 6 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at LEVENS_RESERVOIRS, 4.6 km away at 668 m, over 13 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 50 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 4.57 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 789 mm of rain a year, spread over 67 days — about 11.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at BERRE-DES-ALPES, 3.6 km away at 715 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 06043/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. DATAtourisme 2025-03— https://data.datatourisme.fr/13/0d532f5a-1f0f-3280-aa46-b9131ae30bfa— “Marché hebdomadaire”(unverified)
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 06043/2012
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 06043/1990
8. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 06043/logement/2023
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 06075
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 06057
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 06043
12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024