Asco

Identity

Asco (INSEE 2B023) is in Haute-Corse (2B), part of CC Pasquale Paoli. Population 116 (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/2B023-asco

Vitality score

Vitality score 21.9/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 84 % of the 11,868 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

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

7 × Restaurant (ACROPOLE · PETRA E LEGNU). ^[3,4]

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

2 × Hotel (ACROPOLE · HOTEL LE CHALET). ^[3,4]

1 × Campsite (CAMPING MONTE CINTO). ^[3,4]

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

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 118 (2012) → 116 (2023): -1.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 96 (1990) → 116 (2023): 20.8 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 215, of which 67 % second homes and 0 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Calacuccia): 13.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Corscia): 11.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Calacuccia): 13.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Calacuccia): 13.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Moltifao): 7.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

An average of 32 days a year at or above 30 °C and 15 days at or below 0 °C, over 13 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the LOZZI weather station, 11.8 km away at 1,063 m; the village itself is at 586 m. ^[11]

The village sits 477 m below 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 3 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at PIETRALBA, 14.9 km away at 510 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 76 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 692 mm of rain a year, spread over 81 days — about 8.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at ASCO, 0.2 km away at 590 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B023/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B023/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B023/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B023/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B047
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B095
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B162
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024