With an apparent magnitude of 16, it requires a powerful telescope to be seen, and is located 2,400 light years away based on parallax.
This is an ordinary G-type main sequence star with a similar mass to the Sun, but is 19% larger than the latter.
It radiates at 77% the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of 5,650 K, which gives it the yellow-hue of a G-type star.
CoRoT-16 has a rotation rate of 1/2 km/s, which correlates with an age of 6.7 billion years.
In 2011, the CoRoT mission discovered an unusually eccentric "hot Jupiter".