Calenzana

Haute-Corse · CC de Calvi Balagne · INSEE 2B049

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

Served 67.9/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 98 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Calenzana (INSEE 2B049) is in Haute-Corse (2B), part of CC de Calvi Balagne. Population 2,684 (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 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/2B049-calenzana

Vitality score

Vitality score 67.9/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 98 % of the 7,827 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	0.68	25	16.96
Social	0.93	20	18.65
Education	0.39	10	3.93
Health	0.59	10	5.85
Public & culture	0.2	5	0.98
Population trend	1	10	10
Housing mix	0.27	5	1.35

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 3 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 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]

3 × Bakery (boulangerie) (E FRITELLE · U CASTELLU DI SANTARELLU · L'AMADEUS). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (SEB VIANDE). ^[3,4]

4 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (SARL BIANCONI FRANCESCONI · GRISCELLI HUGHES · LES HALLES DE CALENZANA · CHEZ DUME). ^[3,4]

20 × Restaurant (A STAZZONA · U NIGHJARETU · E CASETTE · O'RANCH). ^[3,4]

4 × Café / bar (BAR DES CHASSEURS · PICCI CAFE · ROYAL BAR). ^[4]

1 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE J.BALESTRINI CALENZANA). ^[3]

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (FRANÇOIS AGOSTINI, MÉDECIN · VIRGINIE URVOIS, MÉDECIN · FRANÇOISE CORTEGGIANI, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE ALBANO MORETTI). ^[3,4]

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

2 × Hairdresser (BEL'HAIR). ^[3,4]

3 × Hotel (AUBERGE A FLATTA · HOTEL BEL HORIZON · E CASETTE). ^[3,4]

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

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

Not found in the commune: Supermarket, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	3	E FRITELLE · U CASTELLU DI SANTARELLU · L'AMADEUS	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	SEB VIANDE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	4	SARL BIANCONI FRANCESCONI · GRISCELLI HUGHES · LES HALLES DE CALENZANA · CHEZ DUME	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [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	20	A STAZZONA · U NIGHJARETU · E CASETTE · O'RANCH	INSEE BPE 20 / INSEE SIRENE 34 [3,4]
Café / bar	4	BAR DES CHASSEURS · PICCI CAFE · ROYAL BAR	INSEE SIRENE 4 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	1	ECOLE MATERNELLE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE J.BALESTRINI CALENZANA	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	FRANÇOIS AGOSTINI, MÉDECIN · VIRGINIE URVOIS, MÉDECIN · FRANÇOISE CORTEGGIANI, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy	1	PHARMACIE ALBANO MORETTI	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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	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	2	BEL'HAIR	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Fuel station	0		INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Hotel	3	AUBERGE A FLATTA · HOTEL BEL HORIZON · E CASETTE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 8 [3,4]
Campsite	1	CAMPING PARADELLA	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 1,061 2023: 2,684 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 2,308 (2012) → 2,684 (2023): 16.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,535 (1990) → 2,684 (2023): 74.9 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 2,093, of which 36.5 % second homes and 6.1 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy 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 (Calenzana): 0.1 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Calenzana): 0.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Calenzana): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Calenzana): 0.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Calenzana): 0.2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 32.4

Days at or below 0 °C 10.2▸

Muggy days a summer 2.7

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 32 days a year at or above 30 °C and 10 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the CALVI weather station, 5.8 km away at 57 m; the village itself is at 292 m. ^[9]

The village sits 235 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. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 3 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at CALVI, 5.8 km away at 57 m, over 29 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 235 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 633 mm of rain a year, spread over 64 days — about 9.9 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at CALVI, 5.8 km away at 57 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B049/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B049/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B049/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B049/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B049
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
Mieussy	74	444 km NW	2,530	60.6	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Cervione	2B	56 km E	2,149	66.3	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 88 % · humidity 0 %
Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors	38	395 km NW	2,936	73.9	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Figanières	83	225 km NW	2,762	61	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Saturnin-lès-Apt	84	323 km NW	3,004	46.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 55 % · humidity 79 %
Lans-en-Vercors	38	392 km NW	2,751	54.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Cervione	2B	56 km E	2,149	66.3	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 56 % · winter 88 % · humidity 0 %
Figanières	83	225 km NW	2,762	61	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 31 % · winter 59 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Saturnin-lès-Apt	84	323 km NW	3,004	46.5	Partly served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 55 % · humidity 79 %
Lans-en-Vercors	38	392 km NW	2,751	54.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors	38	395 km NW	2,936	73.9	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 0 % · humidity 79 %
Mieussy	74	444 km NW	2,530	60.6	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 64 % · winter 0 % · 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 Calenzana'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
Appietto	2A	55 km S	1,749	39.4	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Plan-d'Aups-Sainte-Baume	83	272 km W	2,527	53.2	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 85 % · humidity 93 %
Ramatuelle	83	199 km NW	1,888	56.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Saint-Sauveur-de-Montagut	07	429 km NW	1,115	59.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet	66	520 km W	1,742	51.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 97 % · humidity 86 %
Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste	66	523 km W	1,099	44.9	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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