Retiree / semi-retired
33
44% coverage
Wants a doctor nearby, a hospital that exists, sun, a house that costs less than the flat back home, and other foreigners to talk to.
Missing: access, air, community, cost
AQ · Abruzzo
Castelvecchio Calvisio
- Residents
- 125
- Elevation
- 1,045 m
- Comune
- 15.3 km²
Photo Zitumassin · CC BY-SA 3.0
The feeling
Castelvecchio Calvisio sits in AQ, Abruzzo. We have not written this village up yet — what follows is only what we can measure, with every source named.
4 of 9 axes measured (44% coverage). No data yet for access, digital, air, cost, community — those axes are excluded from every score on this page, not counted as zero.
100days
Clear skies a year
July averages 18.1°C
How it scores
4 axes, out of a hundred
Read low numbers as character, not failure — but read them.
services
Thin
Daily needs in the village itself. The basics are here; the rest is a drive
vitality
Poor
Is the population holding or draining away. The population is draining away
hospitality
Poor
Signs of life: bars, places to eat, places to stay. Very little open in the evening
climate
Thin
Sun, winter, summer. A demanding climate — cold, grey or both
A year here
What the calendar actually feels like
January averages -0.6°C and July 18.1°C.
1days
Above 30°C
117days
Of frost
100days
Clear days
Daily life
What is actually in the village
Counted inside the comune boundary from OpenStreetMap.
1
Groceries
1
Bars & cafés
1
Restaurants
1
Pharmacies
0
Banks & ATMs
1
Places to stay
0
Schools
3
Sports grounds
0
Doctors' surgeries
0
Coworking
No doctorNo schoolNo bank_atmNo fuel
The honest part
Who lives here, and for how much longer
On current births and deaths alone, the population changes by -23.2% over twenty years. It is a projection, not a forecast — no migration is modelled.
Mean age
51.6
Over 65
33 %
Under 15
10 %
A note on the data
No Speedtest samples within 3 km, so there is no measured internet speed for this village. That absence is itself a signal about how many people are online here.
Who it fits
Three ways of wanting a village
Each score weights the axes differently. Coverage says how much of that weighting we could actually fill — a score built on fewer axes is a weaker claim.
Remote worker
31
34% coverage
Needs bandwidth and an airport more than it needs a pharmacy. Will trade services for cheap space and a fast train.
Missing: access, air, community, cost, digital
Cheap-house renovator
28
40% coverage
Chasing price per square metre. Tolerates isolation, but a village that is emptying fast is a house that will never resell.
Missing: access, air, community, cost
Nearby
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Sources
Every number on this page came from somewhere
Last refreshed 2026-07-28.
ISTAT POSAS (residents by age and sex, per comune)
demo.istat.it
2026
Italian Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
it.wikipedia.org
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Model: cohort-component, no migration. ISTAT POSAS (residents by age and sex, per comune) 2026 + Italian life table 2024 + ITF1 fertility 2024 (TFR 1.12)
ec.europa.eu
2026+20y
Ookla Open Data, fixed broadband tiles (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
github.com
2026Q1
Open-Meteo ERA5 archive (2015-2024 daily reanalysis)
open-meteo.com
2015/2024
OpenStreetMap (Overpass)
www.openstreetmap.org
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Wikidata (P1082/P2046/P2044, sourced from ISTAT)
www.wikidata.org
2017-01-01
Wikidata P18 / Wikimedia Commons
commons.wikimedia.org
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Field-by-field definitions and caveats live in the data dictionary.