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This town in Haute-Corse, Corsica has a population of 1,224.
Work and incomes are strong: 0.5 jobs per working resident; 7.4% unemployment. The weak point is cost of living — at the median price, a 70 m² home costs 15.5 times the median annual income per consumption unit in the intercommunality. It also trails on walkability: 74% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 4% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Holiday and other second homes account for 78% of homes.
Figures: employment and commuting, INSEE census 2023 · prices, DVF · income per consumption unit (an income adjusted for household size), INSEE Filosofi · amenities, INSEE BPE 2025. Lumio 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 Lumio 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.
Lumio has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
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The 3 things Lumio does most differently from other towns.
Lumio has 1 historic monument on the Culture ministry’s list: 1 classé, the highest protection, and 0 inscrit, the second level.
The oldest protected part dates from the 12th century; the first monument here was protected in 1980.
Lumio has one historic monument; beside it, the nearest classé monuments in other towns, within 15.5 mi.
Chapelle Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul: Photo: Pierre Bona · CC BY-SA 3.0
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Lumio.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Houses in Lumio sell for €5,972/m² and apartments for €5,183/m². House rents are put at about €12.38/m² a month. The market locally: 128 sales of houses and apartments between July 2023 and June 2026.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €5,972/m² | 31 |
| Apartments | €5,183/m² | 97 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
A third of residents have reached 65. Children under 15 make up 7.5%, below both Haute-Corse’s towns (16%) and compared French towns (17%). Degrees are held by 35% of adults.
47% women, 53% men
About 113 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: Haute-Corse 51.9%, France 51.8%.
| Lumio | Haute-Corse median | France median | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 7.5% | 16% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 5.7% | 10% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 26% | 25% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 28% | 27% | 26% |
| 65+ | 33% | 21% | 22% |
| No diploma | 22% | 22% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 13% | 20% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 23% | 23% | 18% |
| Higher education | 35% | 26% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · Haute-Corse median and France median: the median of compared communes
4.2% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, below both Haute-Corse’s towns (5.4%) and compared French towns (13.4%). Unemployment stands at 7.4%.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
France has no History Grade yet: this card describes, it doesn’t grade.
Homes from before 1919 make up 8.8% of the total, above both Haute-Corse’s towns (4.2%) and compared French towns (7.4%). Among the classé monuments in Lumio is Chapelle Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul. Its heritage reaches back to the 12th century.
Ministère de la Culture, Mérimée (Licence Ouverte 2.0) · INSEE, census 2023, homes by build period
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Women in Haute-Corse live to 85.5 on average and men to 81.2 (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. From 2016 to 2025, 134 residents of Lumio died, against 156 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 14% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Lumio is Smur de Calvi, 4 mi away.
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 · This figure includes a care-home adjustment that TownRatings models; no official statistic exists. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C to A−.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Lumio yet.
Commune in Haute-Corse, Corsica
Lumio is a commune of 1,224 people in the Communauté de communes de Calvi Balagne. 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 →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lumio | 1,224 | — | — | D | — | B |
| Calvi | 5,788 | 3.9 | D− | D− | C | C |
| Calenzana | 2,684 | 4.6 | D | D | A | D |
| L'Île-Rousse | 3,231 | 6.4 | D | D− | B− | D |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Lumio has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average. Recorded figures: an average of 3.8 recorded violent incidents and 16.3 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Estimated advertised apartment rents are €12.69/m² a month, charges included. Incomes are higher than in most compared French towns, so Lumio 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.