Ota

Corse-du-Sud · CC Spelunca-Liamone · INSEE 2A198

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Served 71.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 100 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Ota (INSEE 2A198) is in Corse-du-Sud (2A), part of CC Spelunca-Liamone. Population 470 (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/2A198-ota

Vitality score

Vitality score 71.8/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 100 % of the 17,934 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	0.82	25	20.39
Social	0.98	20	19.5
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.75	10	7.48
Public & culture	0.43	5	2.16
Population trend	0.52	10	5.22
Housing mix	0	5	0

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 1 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 1 of 3

Lodging 2 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”.

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

2 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LE POINT CHAUD DU GOLFE DE PORTO · DELIA CHOCOLAT). ^[3,4]

1 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE TRAITEUR PAUL STEPHANE). ^[3,4]

3 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (CARREFOUR CONTACT · SUPER VIVA · ALIMENTATION GENERALE). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (JDP). ^[3,4]

28 × Restaurant (GOLFAZUR · LE SUD · COTE PLAGE · RESTAURANT LES OLIVIERS · MINI GOLF GINA). ^[3,4]

3 × Café / bar (BAR DES CHASSEURS · BON ACCUEIL · COTE PLACE). ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

2 × GP (médecin généraliste) (DOMINIQUE POGGI, MÉDECIN · LYDIA AKSIL, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (SARL PHARMACIE DE PORTO). ^[3,4]

2 × Post office / agence postale (OTA VILLAGE AP · LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE). ^[3,4]

21 × Hotel (HOTEL BELVEDERE · HOTEL KALLISTE 2 · LE ROMANTIQUE · HOTEL CALA DI SOLE · HOTEL COSTA ROSSA). ^[3,4]

4 × Campsite (CAMPING LE PORTO · CAMPING LES OLIVIERS · CAMPING SOL E VISTA · FUNTANA A L'ORA). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Bakery (boulangerie), 2 × Restaurant, 1 × Hotel.

Not found in the commune: Nursery school (maternelle), Library. ^[3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	2	LE POINT CHAUD DU GOLFE DE PORTO · DELIA CHOCOLAT	INSEE SIRENE 2 / INSEE BPE 0 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	1	BOUCHERIE CHARCUTERIE TRAITEUR PAUL STEPHANE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	3	CARREFOUR CONTACT · SUPER VIVA · ALIMENTATION GENERALE	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 4 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	JDP	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Restaurant	28	GOLFAZUR · LE SUD · COTE PLAGE · RESTAURANT LES OLIVIERS · MINI GOLF GINA	INSEE BPE 28 / INSEE SIRENE 40 [3,4]
Café / bar	3	BAR DES CHASSEURS · BON ACCUEIL · COTE PLACE	INSEE SIRENE 3 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	1	ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Collège	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	2	DOMINIQUE POGGI, MÉDECIN · LYDIA AKSIL, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Pharmacy	1	SARL PHARMACIE DE PORTO	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	2	OTA VILLAGE AP · LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 2 [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	1	STATION SERVICE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Hotel	21	HOTEL BELVEDERE · HOTEL KALLISTE 2 · LE ROMANTIQUE · HOTEL CALA DI SOLE · HOTEL COSTA ROSSA	INSEE BPE 21 / INSEE SIRENE 31 [3,4]
Campsite	4	CAMPING LE PORTO · CAMPING LES OLIVIERS · CAMPING SOL E VISTA · FUNTANA A L'ORA	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [3,4]

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

1968: 444 peak 2012: 589 2023: 470 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 589 (2012) → 470 (2023): -20.2 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 460 (1990) → 470 (2023): 2.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 728, of which 67.2 % second homes and 0 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Food shop, Primary school GP — 3.0 km WPharmacy — 3.1 km WBakery — 9.2 km W 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 (Piana): 9.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Ota): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

GP (Ota): 3 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Ota): 3.1 km to the west (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Ota): 0 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 45.3▸

Days at or below 0 °C 5.3▸

Muggy days a summer 2.3

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 45 days a year at or above 30 °C and 5 days at or below 0 °C, over 15 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[10]

Measured at the EVISA-VILLAGE weather station, 4.7 km away at 856 m; the village itself is at 343 m. ^[10]

The village sits 513 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. ^[10]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 2 days a summer. ^[10]

Humidity measured at RENNO, 9.1 km away at 755 m, over 30 summers. ^[10]

That station sits 412 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 5.63 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[10]

An average of 851 mm of rain a year, spread over 72 days — about 11.8 mm on a day it rains. ^[10]

Rainfall measured at OTA-PORTO, 3.1 km away at 28 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[10]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2A198/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2A198/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2A198/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2A198/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 2A212
INSEE BPE 2025 — 2A198
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
Rogliano	2B	95 km NE	530	72	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 93 % · humidity 0 %
Sainte-Lucie-de-Tallano	2A	68 km SE	363	64.9	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Veules-les-Roses	76	1,044 km NW	510	55.4	Partly served	no figures
Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer	83	212 km NW	639	62.3	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 53 % · humidity 64 %
Calacuccia	2B	24 km E	272	65.6	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Colmars	04	274 km NW	583	72.2	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 0 % · winter 0 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Calacuccia	2B	24 km E	272	65.6	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 59 % · winter 0 % · humidity 86 %
Sainte-Lucie-de-Tallano	2A	68 km SE	363	64.9	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 77 % · winter 89 % · humidity 93 %
Rogliano	2B	95 km NE	530	72	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 46 % · winter 93 % · humidity 0 %
Rayol-Canadel-sur-Mer	83	212 km NW	639	62.3	Served	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel more humid.summer 64 % · winter 53 % · humidity 64 %
Colmars	04	274 km NW	583	72.2	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 0 % · winter 0 %
Veules-les-Roses	76	1,044 km NW	510	55.4	Partly served	no figures

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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 Ota'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
Tavera	2A	31 km SE	453	44.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %
Robiac-Rochessadoule	30	439 km NW	832	42.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 91 % · humidity 93 %
Olivese	2A	53 km SE	221	33.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 95 % · humidity 100 %
La Vernarède	30	445 km NW	364	34	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 100 %
Vero	2A	27 km SE	640	50.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 88 % · humidity 86 %
Clans	06	233 km NW	703	50.6	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 92 % · winter 86 % · humidity 86 %

Elsewhere

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