Lama

Haute-Corse · CC de l'Ile-Rousse - Balagne · INSEE 2B136

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

Few services 24.8/100 · confidence: high· Better served than 85 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Lama (INSEE 2B136) is in Haute-Corse (2B), part of CC de l'Ile-Rousse - Balagne. Population 155 (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/2B136-lama

Vitality score

Vitality score 24.8/100 — Few services (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: high.

Better served than 85 % of the 14,382 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	0.48	20	9.5
Education	0	10	0
Health	0	10	0
Public & culture	0.32	5	1.58
Population trend	1	10	10
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 1 of 1

Culture 0 of 2

Sport 0 of 2

Everyday services 0 of 3

Lodging 1 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]

3 × Restaurant (L'ALZELLI · FRALALA · L'OSTRI). ^[3,4]

1 × Post office / agence postale (LAMA AP). ^[3]

1 × Hotel (HOTEL CASE LATINE). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 1 × Restaurant.

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, Library. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	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	3	L'ALZELLI · FRALALA · L'OSTRI	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 6 [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	1	LAMA AP	INSEE BPE 1 [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	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Hotel	1	HOTEL CASE LATINE	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [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: 237 2023: 155 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 164 (2012) → 155 (2023): -5.5 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 98 (1990) → 155 (2023): 58.2 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 240, of which 64.2 % second homes and 0 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

Primary school — 2.5 km NWFood shop — 3.2 km SBakery — 3.9 km SPharmacy — 12.6 km SGP — 12.7 km S 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): 3.9 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Pietralba): 3.2 km to the south (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Morosaglia): 12.7 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Pharmacy (Morosaglia): 12.6 km to the south (straight line). ^[9]

Primary school (Urtaca): 2.5 km to the north-west (straight line). ^[10]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 23.7

Days at or below 0 °C 15.8▸

Muggy days a summer 3.5

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 24 days a year at or above 30 °C and 16 days at or below 0 °C, over 30 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[11]

Measured at the PIETRALBA weather station, 3.9 km away at 510 m; the village itself is at 501 m. ^[11]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 4 days a summer. ^[11]

Humidity measured at PIETRALBA, 3.9 km away at 510 m, over 30 summers. ^[11]

An average of 663 mm of rain a year, spread over 70 days — about 9.5 mm on a day it rains. ^[11]

Rainfall measured at PIETRALBA, 3.9 km away at 510 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[11]

Uncertainties

No specific uncertainties flagged.

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B136/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B136/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B136/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 2B136/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B223
INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B169
INSEE BPE 2025 — 2B332
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
Mont-Dauphin	05	310 km NW	162	21.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
Bordères-Louron	65	717 km W	152	11.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
Asco	2B	18 km SW	116	21.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Llo	66	583 km W	153	18	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
Soccia	2A	48 km SW	160	26.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 57 % · humidity 71 %
Castirla	2B	23 km S	166	17.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 47 % · humidity 79 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Asco	2B	18 km SW	116	21.9	Few services	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 79 % · winter 99 % · humidity 93 %
Castirla	2B	23 km S	166	17.2	No daily shops	Warmer summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 15 % · winter 47 % · humidity 79 %
Soccia	2A	48 km SW	160	26.8	Few services	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 74 % · winter 57 % · humidity 71 %
Mont-Dauphin	05	310 km NW	162	21.1	Few services	Similar summers, colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 90 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
Llo	66	583 km W	153	18	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 49 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %
Bordères-Louron	65	717 km W	152	11.5	No daily shops	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 59 % · winter 0 % · humidity 71 %

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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 Lama'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
Castifao	2B	9.4 km SW	168	26.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Soulatgé	11	546 km W	126	21.7	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 91 % · humidity 86 %
Murzo	2A	54 km SW	98	15.8	No daily shops	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 95 % · humidity 93 %
Ghisoni	2B	53 km S	182	27.2	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 93 % · humidity 93 %
Davejean	11	538 km W	163	21.3	Few services	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 97 % · winter 96 % · humidity 86 %
Duilhac-sous-Peyrepertuse	11	540 km W	140	41.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 92 % · humidity 86 %

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