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Some 1,893 people live in this town, in Corse-du-Sud, Corsica.
People here tend to be in good health: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 24% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Housing is expensive (D−): at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 13.8 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. Most journeys need a car: 41% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 3% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. The local economy is weaker than most (C−): 0.3 jobs per working resident; 11.5% unemployment.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023. Sotta has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Sotta with other French towns of 2,500 or more, ordered by how far its rank is from the middle. American and UK towns are graded separately.
Sotta has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The 2 things Sotta does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Sotta: 2 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level).
The oldest protected part dates from prehistory; the first monument here was protected in 1980.
The Culture ministry lists 2 historic monuments in Sotta: 2 classé (France’s highest heritage protection) and 0 inscrit (the second level).
Site archéologique de Tappa: Photo: TeletubAstyanax · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Ancienne chapelle San-Agostino de Chera: Photo: Cqui · CC BY-SA 3.0
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Sotta.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €4,681/m², comes from 43 sales of houses and apartments in Sotta from July 2023 to June 2026. Of the homes sold, 81% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €4,554/m² | 35 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
The typical income here, after tax and benefits, is €26,720 a year per consumption unit. 2.6% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below both Corse-du-Sud’s towns (6.4%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Also worth knowing: the unemployment rate comes to 11.5%.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
124 deaths in Sotta between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 164: 24% below. In Corse-du-Sud, life expectancy at birth reaches 87.2 years for women and 82.1 for men (2025), next to 85.9 and 80.3 for France. There is one general practitioner locally.
Source: INSEE, deaths by commune of residence 2016–2025 and censuses; Eurostat, death rates by age (© European Union); INSEE, BPE 2025; DREES, APL 2024; INSEE, life expectancy by département 2025 · Licence Ouverte · That adjustment for care homes is a model of TownRatings’ own, not official data. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from B− to A.
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Among the classé monuments in Sotta is Site archéologique de Tappa. Its oldest listed monument dates from prehistory. Homes from before 1919 make up 5.7% of the total, higher than Corse-du-Sud’s towns (4%) yet lower than compared French towns (7.4%).
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Nearly one in ten residents are aged 15 to 24. The median resident of Sotta is 47 years old. Among adults, 28% have a degree.
49% women, 51% men
About 106 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Corse-du-Sud 51.4%, France 51.8%.
| Sotta | Corse-du-Sud median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 15% | 15% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.5% | 8.7% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 24% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 30% | 28% | 26% |
| 65+ | 22% | 24% | 22% |
| No diploma | 17% | 19% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 21% | 22% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 25% | 24% | 18% |
| Higher education | 28% | 28% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Corse-du-Sud median and France median: the median of compared communes
The yearly rates for 2023–2025: 1.9 violent offenses and 2.9 graded property crimes per 1,000 residents. Other physical violence topped the graded crimes in Sotta (2025).
Not in the gradeTheft without violence, drug use and fraud are shown for information but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence plus burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and criminal damage per resident.
Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · Small counts of family violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and criminal damage go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 100.0% of the index here.
Wikidata places 3 people here, but for none of them do the articles confirm Sotta as the birthplace, so nobody is listed.
Commune in Corse-du-Sud, Corsica
Sotta is a commune of 1,893 people in the Communauté de communes du Sud Corse. TownRatings compares communes, France’s local unit: each has its own mayor and its own statistics. Its area takes in the town and the countryside around it.
Built from INSEE’s 2026 official geography (COG) and IGN Admin Express boundaries
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
Sotta has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Homes cost more than in most compared French towns: the median sale price from July 2023 to June 2026 was €4,681/m², against €2,430/m² for the median of compared French towns. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Sotta grades D− for cost of living.
Sources: INSEE, census 2023 (population, employment, commuting) · INSEE, Filosofi 2023 (income per consumption unit, poverty) · DGFiP, DVF property sales, July 2023 to June 2026 · Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025 · SSMSI, recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Ministry of Education (DEPP), brevet and bac results and value-added indicators, 2025 · INSEE, deaths by commune of residence 2016–2025 and censuses 2012–2023; Eurostat, death rates by age (© European Union); INSEE, BPE 2025 (care homes, emergency and maternity units, GPs, pharmacies); DREES, APL 2024; INSEE, life expectancy by département 2025 (provisional) · INSEE, BPE 2025 and Filosofi 200 m grid (walking distances) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking French towns against each other only, updated November 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.