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Aregno

Haute-Corse · CC de Calvi Balagne · INSEE 2B020

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

Partly served 52.9/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 95 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Aregno (INSEE 2B020) is in Haute-Corse (2B), part of CC de Calvi Balagne. Population 588 (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/2B020-aregno

Vitality score

Vitality score 52.9/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 95 % of the 17,168 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.

ComponentValue (0–1)WeightContribution
Daily food0.422510.54
Social0.812016.3
Education0.63106.32
Health0.43104.32
Public & culture0.3251.58
Population trend0.58105.81
Housing mix0.0250.09

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 1 of 4
Public services 1 of 1
Culture 0 of 2
Sport 0 of 2
Everyday services 2 of 3
Lodging 2 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) (ACQUA E FARINA). [3,4]

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

6 × Restaurant (CANTARETTU CITY · U MAROSU · PIZZA PRAOLI · LE PADULA · LA SIESTA). [3,4]

1 × Café / bar. [4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). [3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ERIC ANNEBICQUE, MÉDECIN · VANINA DECOCK-SALDUCCI, MÉDECIN). [3]

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

1 × Hairdresser (ANFRIANI PRISCILIA). [3,4]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). [3]

2 × Hotel (HOTEL PASCAL PAOLI · HOTEL L'ESCALE PLAGE). [3,4]

3 × Campsite (CANTARETTU CITY · A MARINA · CAMPING DE LA PLAGE). [3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant.

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

All 25 service types, with per-source counts
TypeCountNamesSources
Bakery (boulangerie)1ACQUA E FARINAINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)1A SPORTAINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Supermarket0INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)0INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant6CANTARETTU CITY · U MAROSU · PIZZA PRAOLI · LE PADULA · LA SIESTAINSEE BPE 6 / INSEE SIRENE 13 [3,4]
Café / bar1INSEE SIRENE 1 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)1ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUEINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)2ERIC ANNEBICQUE, MÉDECIN · VANINA DECOCK-SALDUCCI, MÉDECININSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy0INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Nurse0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale1AREGNO APINSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Cinema0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Swimming pool0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank0INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser1ANFRIANI PRISCILIAINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Fuel station1STATION SERVICEINSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3]
Hotel2HOTEL PASCAL PAOLI · HOTEL L'ESCALE PLAGEINSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]
Campsite3CANTARETTU CITY · A MARINA · CAMPING DE LA PLAGEINSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 359 peak 2007: 613 2023: 588 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 594 (2012) → 588 (2023): -1 % over 10 years. [5,1]

Population 544 (1990) → 588 (2023): 8.1 % over 30 years. [6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 644, of which 49.1 % second homes and 3 % vacant. [7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

5 km10 kmBakery — 3.2 km N (Corbara)GP — 3.5 km NW (Aregno)Pharmacy — 5.3 km W (Lumio)
In the commune Food shop, Primary school Bakery — 3.2 km NGP — 3.5 km NWPharmacy — 5.3 km W 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 (Corbara): 3.2 km to the north (straight line). [8]

Food shop (Aregno): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). [9]

GP (Aregno): 3.5 km to the north-west (straight line). [9]

Pharmacy (Lumio): 5.3 km to the west (straight line). [10]

Primary school (Aregno): 0.3 km to the north-east (straight line). [9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

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 12 days a year at or above 30 °C and 1 day at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [11]

Measured at the ILE ROUSSE weather station, 6.2 km away at 140 m; the village itself is at 239 m. [11]

The village sits 99 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. [11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 22 days a summer. [11]

Humidity measured at ILE ROUSSE, 6.2 km away at 140 m, over 30 summers. [11]

That station sits 99 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [11]

An average of 458 mm of rain a year, spread over 56 days — about 8.2 mm on a day it rains. [11]

Rainfall measured at ILE ROUSSE, 6.2 km away at 140 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [11]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

  1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B020/2023
  2. INSEE density grid 2026
  3. INSEE BPE 2025
  4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
  5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B020/2012
  6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B020/1990
  7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B020/logement/2023
  8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B093
  9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B020
  10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B150
  11. 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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Venaco2B45 km SE64460.2ServedWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 74 % · humidity 0 %
Tourtour83238 km NW58148.9Partly servedWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 22 % · humidity 0 %
Audresselles621,071 km NW60845.6Partly servedCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 82 % · humidity 0 %
Valderoure06223 km NW53946.3Partly servedCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 0 % · humidity 0 %
Burzet07444 km NW53658Partly servedWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 58 % · humidity 0 %
Bouyon06199 km NW55758Partly servedSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 57 % · humidity 0 %
Order by distance instead
CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Venaco2B45 km SE64460.2ServedWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 74 % · humidity 0 %
Bouyon06199 km NW55758Partly servedSimilar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 100 % · winter 57 % · humidity 0 %
Valderoure06223 km NW53946.3Partly servedCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 77 % · winter 0 % · humidity 0 %
Tourtour83238 km NW58148.9Partly servedWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 22 % · humidity 0 %
Burzet07444 km NW53658Partly servedWarmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 69 % · winter 58 % · humidity 0 %
Audresselles621,071 km NW60845.6Partly servedCooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 82 % · 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 Aregno'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.

CommuneDeptDistancePopulationScoreBandClimate vs here
Santa-Reparata-di-Balagna2B3.8 km NE1,02439.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Linguizzetta2B59 km SE1,16648Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Canale-di-Verde2B58 km SE30224.4Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 %
Guéthary64859 km W1,30649.6Partly servedMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %
Biriatou64869 km W1,29736.2Few servicesMuch the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 100 %