Nessa

Identity

Nessa (INSEE 2B175) is in Haute-Corse (2B), part of CC de l'Ile-Rousse - Balagne. Population 122 (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/2B175-nessa

Vitality score

Vitality score 16.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 63 % of the 12,371 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

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

1 × Butcher (boucherie). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Butcher (boucherie).

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

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 108 (2012) → 122 (2023): 13 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 91 (1990) → 122 (2023): 34.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 139, of which 44.6 % second homes and 5.8 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Corbara): 8.3 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Speloncato): 3.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Ville-di-Paraso): 3.6 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Calenzana): 8.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Feliceto): 1.1 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[12]

Climate

An average of 7 days a year at or above 30 °C and 2 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[13]

Measured at the ILE ROUSSE weather station, 9.5 km away at 140 m; the village itself is at 442 m. ^[13]

The village sits 302 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 12 days a summer. ^[13]

Humidity measured at ILE ROUSSE, 9.5 km away at 140 m, over 30 summers. ^[13]

That station sits 302 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 743 mm of rain a year, spread over 72 days — about 10.3 mm on a day it rains. ^[13]

Rainfall measured at OLMI-CAPPELLA, 6.1 km away at 844 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B175/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B175/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B175/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B175/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B093
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B290
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B352
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B049
12. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B112
13. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024