Novella

Haute-Corse · CC de l'Ile-Rousse - Balagne · INSEE 2B180

Somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop and no school.

No daily shops 18.7/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 85 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Novella (INSEE 2B180) is in Haute-Corse (2B), part of CC de l'Ile-Rousse - Balagne. Population 80 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat très dispersé (level 7). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026.

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Vitality score

Vitality score 18.7/100 — No daily shops (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 85 % of the 8,523 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	0.32	20	6.32
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0	5	0
Population trend	0.95	10	9.55
Housing mix	0	5	0

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 0 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 0 of 1

Schools 0 of 3

Health 0 of 4

Public services 0 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 of 3

Lodging 0 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”.

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

1 × Restaurant. ^[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, Post office / agence postale, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	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 BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [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	1	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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 SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [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

1968: 121 2023: 80 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 88 (2012) → 80 (2023): -9.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 55 (1990) → 80 (2023): 45.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 122, of which 59.8 % second homes and 0 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 3.7 km EFood shop — 4.8 km NBakery — 7.6 km SEGP — 11.0 km WPharmacy — 15.3 km SE 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 (Pietralba): 7.6 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Urtaca): 4.8 km to the north (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Ville-di-Paraso): 11 km to the west (straight line). ^[10]

Pharmacy (Morosaglia): 15.3 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[11]

Primary school (Urtaca): 3.7 km to the east (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 32.6

Days at or below 0 °C 8.6▸

Muggy days a summer 8.1

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 33 days a year at or above 30 °C and 9 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[12]

Measured at the PIETRALBA weather station, 6.9 km away at 510 m; the village itself is at 325 m. ^[12]

The village sits 185 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. ^[12]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 8 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at PIETRALBA, 6.9 km away at 510 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 185 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[12]

An average of 663 mm of rain a year, spread over 70 days — about 9.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at PIETRALBA, 6.9 km away at 510 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

What property sold for

No price figures: fewer than five comparable sales were registered here between 2021 and 2025. A median of two sales is not a median. ^[13]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B180/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B180/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B180/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B180/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B223
INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B332
INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B352
INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B169
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024
DVF (DGFiP property transactions) 2021-2025

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
Viam	19	668 km NW	85	9.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %
Éclusier-Vaux	80	951 km NW	85	19.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 54 % · humidity 50 %
Bassignac-le-Bas	19	642 km NW	80	8.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 11 % · humidity 50 %
Villeneuve-d'Entraunes	06	254 km NW	82	14.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 68 % · humidity 43 %
Pontcharraud	23	655 km NW	82	9.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %
Saint-Frézal-d'Albuges	48	485 km NW	62	14.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 0 % · humidity 43 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Villeneuve-d'Entraunes	06	254 km NW	82	14.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 62 % · winter 68 % · humidity 43 %
Saint-Frézal-d'Albuges	48	485 km NW	62	14.6	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 31 % · winter 0 % · humidity 43 %
Bassignac-le-Bas	19	642 km NW	80	8.7	No daily shops	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 95 % · winter 11 % · humidity 50 %
Pontcharraud	23	655 km NW	82	9.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 54 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %
Viam	19	668 km NW	85	9.1	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 38 % · winter 0 % · humidity 50 %
Éclusier-Vaux	80	951 km NW	85	19.2	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 33 % · winter 54 % · humidity 50 %

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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 Novella'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
Cannelle	2A	65 km S	70	13.6	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 86 %
Caunettes-en-Val	11	538 km W	56	15	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 88 % · humidity 93 %
Boule-d'Amont	66	532 km W	63	6.1	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 96 % · humidity 93 %
Dernacueillette	11	533 km W	43	3.2	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Montjoi	11	543 km W	43	11.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Saint-Loube	32	667 km W	96	21.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 88 % · humidity 100 %

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