Santa-Maria-Poggio

Identity

Santa-Maria-Poggio (INSEE 2B311) is in Haute-Corse (2B), part of CC de la Costa Verde. Population 807 (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/2B311-santa-maria-poggio

Vitality score

Vitality score 36.4/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: low (sources disagree on Grocery (épicerie / supérette); sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 61 % of the 15,602 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 school and somewhere to eat or drink, but no food shop. ^[3,4]

4 × Restaurant (INDE TUMASGIU · LE FLIBUSTIER · LE CARGO · CINDERELLA). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE MARINA D'OSARI LCC BILINGUE). ^[3]

1 × Hairdresser. ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 2 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Bakery (boulangerie), Butcher (boucherie), Grocery (épicerie / supérette), Supermarket, Nursery school (maternelle), 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 657 (2012) → 807 (2023): 22.8 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 600 (1990) → 807 (2023): 34.5 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 795, of which 51.1 % second homes and 1.4 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Cervione): 1.6 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Cervione): 2.3 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Valle-di-Campoloro): 1 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (San-Nicolao): 3.7 km to the north (straight line). ^[10]

Primary school (Santa-Maria-Poggio): 1.5 km to the north (straight line). ^[11]

Climate

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

Measured at the ALISTRO weather station, 8.9 km away at 65 m; the village itself is at 1 m. ^[12]

The village sits 64 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 45 days a summer. ^[12]

Humidity measured at ALISTRO, 8.9 km away at 65 m, over 30 summers. ^[12]

That station sits 64 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 987 mm of rain a year, spread over 76 days — about 13 mm on a day it rains. ^[12]

Rainfall measured at PIETRA-DI-VERDE, 8.8 km away at 440 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[12]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Grocery (épicerie / supérette)

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B311/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B311/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B311/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B311/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B087
9. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B335
10. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B313
11. INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B311
12. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024