Castirla

Identity

Castirla (INSEE 2B083) is in Haute-Corse (2B), part of CC Pasquale Paoli. Population 166 (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/2B083-castirla

Vitality score

Vitality score 17.2/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 56 % of the 14,814 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]

1 × Restaurant. ^[3,4]

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

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 176 (2012) → 166 (2023): -5.7 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 145 (1990) → 166 (2023): 14.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 150, of which 47.3 % second homes and 0 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Corte): 6.4 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Omessa): 4.5 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Corte): 7.1 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Calacuccia): 10.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Omessa): 4.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

An average of 57 days a year at or above 30 °C and 55 days at or below 0 °C, over 18 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the CORTE U SERENU weather station, 7.8 km away at 400 m; the village itself is at 483 m. ^[11]

The village sits 83 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 1 day a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at CORTE_FDF, 8.5 km away at 362 m, over 20 summers. ^[11]

That station sits 121 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 737 mm of rain a year, spread over 77 days — about 9.6 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at CASTIRLA, 1.1 km away at 376 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 — 2B083/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B083/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B083/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B083/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B096
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B193
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B047
11. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024