Moca-Croce

Corse-du-Sud · CC du Sartenais Valinco Taravo · INSEE 2A160

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

Few services 37.2/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 95 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Moca-Croce (INSEE 2A160) is in Corse-du-Sud (2A), part of CC du Sartenais Valinco Taravo. Population 221 (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.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 37.2/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 95 % of the 16,569 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	0.63	20	12.64
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	0.57	10	5.68
Housing mix	0.03	5	0.16

Services

What is here, at a glance

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

1 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette). ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (U PONTICEDDU). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar (CAFE DU CENTRE). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE BILINGUE MOCA CROCE). ^[3]

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

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket, Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Library. ^[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)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	1		INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [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	1	U PONTICEDDU	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Café / bar	1	CAFE DU CENTRE	INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE BILINGUE MOCA CROCE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [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	MOCA CROCE 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	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: 254 2023: 221 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 232 (2012) → 221 (2023): -4.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 207 (1990) → 221 (2023): 6.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 248, of which 48.4 % second homes and 6.5 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 3.4 km SWBakery — 3.5 km SWPharmacy — 3.6 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 (Petreto-Bicchisano): 3.5 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Moca-Croce): 0.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Petreto-Bicchisano): 3.4 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Petreto-Bicchisano): 3.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Moca-Croce): 0 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 38.9

Days at or below 0 °C 4.3▸

Muggy days a summer 3.9

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 39 days a year at or above 30 °C and 4 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the PILA CANALE-GEND weather station, 8.2 km away at 389 m; the village itself is at 455 m. ^[10]

The village sits 66 m above the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 4.13 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at PILA-CANALE, 9 km away at 407 m, over 29 summers. ^[10]

An average of 967 mm of rain a year, spread over 87 days — about 11.1 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at PETRETO BICCHISANO, 3.8 km away at 450 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2A160/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2A160/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2A160/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2A160/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 2A211
INSEE BPE 2025 — 2A160
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
Poggio-di-Nazza	2B	36 km NE	187	30.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Olivese	2A	5.5 km NE	221	33.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Escalles	62	1,156 km NW	223	32	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 5 % · winter 66 % · humidity 79 %
La Porta	2B	74 km N	187	37.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Poggio-di-Venaco	2B	52 km N	211	29.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 78 % · humidity 71 %
Casalabriva	2A	8.9 km SW	235	31.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 31 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Olivese	2A	5.5 km NE	221	33.7	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 85 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Casalabriva	2A	8.9 km SW	235	31.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 31 % · humidity 79 %
Poggio-di-Nazza	2B	36 km NE	187	30.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 72 % · winter 65 % · humidity 93 %
Poggio-di-Venaco	2B	52 km N	211	29.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 82 % · winter 78 % · humidity 71 %
La Porta	2B	74 km N	187	37.4	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 33 % · winter 70 % · humidity 100 %
Escalles	62	1,156 km NW	223	32	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 5 % · winter 66 % · humidity 79 %

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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 Moca-Croce'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
Sari-d'Orcino	2A	32 km NW	351	31.9	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Azilone-Ampaza	2A	6.0 km N	208	20.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Soumont	34	509 km NW	246	26.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
La Vernarède	30	491 km NW	364	34	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 85 % · humidity 86 %
Moissac-Vallée-Française	48	499 km NW	216	32.6	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Santa-Maria-Siché	2A	8.0 km N	364	56.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %

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