Costa
No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune.
No daily shops 6.6/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 15 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.
Identity
Costa (INSEE 2B097) is in Haute-Corse (2B), part of CC de l'Ile-Rousse - Balagne. Population 49 (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/2B097-costa
Vitality score
Vitality score 6.6/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).
Confidence: high.
Better served than 15 % of the 4,658 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 | 20 | 0 |
| Education | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Health | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Public & culture | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| Population trend | 0.57 | 10 | 5.65 |
| Housing mix | 0 | 5 | 0 |
Services
What is here, at a glance
No food shop, school, café or restaurant in the commune. [3,4]
Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Restaurant, Café / bar, Nursery school (maternelle), Primary school (élémentaire), GP (médecin généraliste), Pharmacy, Post office / agence postale, Library. [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 | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4] | |
| Café / bar | 0 | INSEE SIRENE 0 [4] | |
| Nursery school (maternelle) | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 [3] | |
| Primary school (élémentaire) | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 [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 | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 [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 | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4] | |
| Fuel station | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4] | |
| Hotel | 0 | INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4] | |
| 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
Population 70 (2012) → 49 (2023): -30 % over 10 years. [5,1]
Population 46 (1990) → 49 (2023): 6.5 % over 30 years. [6,1]
Dwellings (2023): 85, of which 60 % second homes and 5.9 % vacant. [7]
Access and surroundings
Which way the everyday services lie
Bakery (Monticello): 7.6 km to the north-west (straight line). [8]
Food shop (Speloncato): 2.2 km to the south-west (straight line). [9]
GP (Ville-di-Paraso): 1.6 km to the south-west (straight line). [10]
Pharmacy (L'Île-Rousse): 8.4 km to the north-west (straight line). [11]
Primary school (Belgodère): 1.6 km to the north-east (straight line). [12]
Climate
Where this sits nationally
An average of 10 days a year at or above 30 °C and 1 day at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. [13]
Measured at the ILE ROUSSE weather station, 9.2 km away at 140 m; the village itself is at 314 m. [13]
The village sits 174 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. [13]
Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 18 days a summer. [13]
Humidity measured at ILE ROUSSE, 9.2 km away at 140 m, over 30 summers. [13]
That station sits 174 m below the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. [13]
An average of 563 mm of rain a year, spread over 67 days — about 8.4 mm on a day it rains. [13]
Rainfall measured at BELGODERE-GEND, 2.2 km away at 286 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. [13]
Uncertainties
No specific uncertainties flagged.
References
- INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B097/2023
- INSEE density grid 2026
- INSEE BPE 2025
- INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
- INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B097/2012
- INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B097/1990
- INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B097/logement/2023
- INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B168
- INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B290
- INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B352
- INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B134
- INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B034
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Villars-en-Azois | 52 | 695 km NW | 58 | 0.5 | No daily shops | no figures |
| Château-Verdun | 09 | 599 km W | 41 | 6.5 | No daily shops | no figures |
| Raon-lès-Leau | 54 | 677 km N | 40 | 11.8 | No daily shops | Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 0 % · humidity 0 % |
| Bezins-Garraux | 31 | 680 km W | 46 | 13.3 | No daily shops | Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 14 % · humidity 0 % |
| Chèze | 65 | 738 km W | 50 | 7.2 | No daily shops | Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 58 % |
| Gouaux | 65 | 706 km W | 54 | 4.4 | No daily shops | Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 0 % · humidity 0 % |
Order by distance instead
| Commune | Dept | Distance | Population | Score | Band | Climate vs here |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Château-Verdun | 09 | 599 km W | 41 | 6.5 | No daily shops | no figures |
| Raon-lès-Leau | 54 | 677 km N | 40 | 11.8 | No daily shops | Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 0 % · humidity 0 % |
| Bezins-Garraux | 31 | 680 km W | 46 | 13.3 | No daily shops | Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 14 % · humidity 0 % |
| Villars-en-Azois | 52 | 695 km NW | 58 | 0.5 | No daily shops | no figures |
| Gouaux | 65 | 706 km W | 54 | 4.4 | No daily shops | Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 97 % · winter 0 % · humidity 0 % |
| Chèze | 65 | 738 km W | 50 | 7.2 | No daily shops | Warmer summers and colder winters.summer 82 % · winter 58 % |
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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 Costa'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avapessa | 2B | 8.9 km W | 80 | 8.6 | No daily shops | Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 % |
| Tox | 2B | 50 km SE | 96 | 10.1 | No daily shops | Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 % |
| Pietra-di-Verde | 2B | 48 km SE | 102 | 16 | No daily shops | Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 99 % · humidity 86 % |
| Ortale | 2B | 45 km SE | 25 | 18.9 | No daily shops | Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 % |
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