Pila-Canale

Corse-du-Sud · CC de la Pieve de l'Ornano et du Taravo · INSEE 2A232

A school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop.

Few services 24.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 66 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Pila-Canale (INSEE 2A232) is in Corse-du-Sud (2A), part of CC de la Pieve de l'Ornano et du Taravo. Population 271 (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 24.7/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 66 % of the 17,546 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	25	0
Social	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.63	5	3.16
Population trend	0.52	10	5.23
Housing mix	0	5	0

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 1 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

1 × Restaurant (PASTA E BASTA). ^[3,4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE BILINGUE PILA CANALE). ^[3]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (RELAIS LECTURE DE PILA CANALE). ^[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, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy. ^[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)	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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	PASTA E BASTA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Café / bar	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE BILINGUE PILA CANALE	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	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	RELAIS LECTURE DE PILA CANALE	INSEE BPE 1 [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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: 488 2023: 271 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 286 (2012) → 271 (2023): -5.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 265 (1990) → 271 (2023): 2.3 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 318, of which 52.5 % second homes and 2.2 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Food shop — 1.8 km NPrimary school — 4.0 km SBakery — 5.9 km SEGP — 6.1 km SEPharmacy — 6.2 km SE 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): 5.9 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Cognocoli-Monticchi): 1.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Petreto-Bicchisano): 6.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Petreto-Bicchisano): 6.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Pila-Canale): 4 km to the south (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 47▸

Days at or below 0 °C 4.2▸

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 47 days a year at or above 30 °C and 4 days at or below 0 °C, over 10 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the PILA CANALE-GEND weather station, 0.5 km away at 389 m; the village itself is at 370 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at PILA-CANALE, 0.7 km away at 407 m, over 29 summers. ^[11]

An average of 829 mm of rain a year, spread over 81 days — about 10.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at PILA CANALE-GEND, 0.5 km away at 389 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 — 2A232/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2A232/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2A232/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2A232/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 2A211
INSEE BPE 2025 — 2A091
INSEE BPE 2025 — 2A232
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
Villeneuve-d'Allier	43	583 km NW	280	27.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
Bonlieu	39	585 km NW	223	29.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
La Faurie	05	400 km NW	287	28.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
Vandenesse	58	699 km NW	287	27.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 23 % · winter 23 % · humidity 86 %
Vimenet	12	564 km NW	248	28.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Marcols-les-Eaux	07	495 km NW	291	34.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 7 % · humidity 71 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
La Faurie	05	400 km NW	287	28.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
Marcols-les-Eaux	07	495 km NW	291	34.1	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 7 % · humidity 71 %
Vimenet	12	564 km NW	248	28.6	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Villeneuve-d'Allier	43	583 km NW	280	27.7	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 64 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
Bonlieu	39	585 km NW	223	29.2	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 8 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
Vandenesse	58	699 km NW	287	27.5	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 23 % · winter 23 % · humidity 86 %

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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 Pila-Canale'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
Saint-Étienne-d'Albagnan	34	530 km NW	302	28.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Peyremale	30	481 km NW	272	20.5	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Olivese	2A	13 km E	221	33.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 93 % · humidity 86 %
Berlou	34	521 km NW	211	20.8	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Arre	30	500 km NW	252	27.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %
Sainte-Cécile-d'Andorge	30	484 km NW	525	29.1	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 86 % · humidity 93 %

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