Althen-des-Paluds

A French city of 2,960

€2,940/m²to buy

2,678 hof sun a year

15 minto a hospital

2,960residents

Althen-des-Paluds is a French city of 2,960 in Vaucluse. Homes go for about €2,940 a square metre. 2,678 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€2,940/m²to buy, $317 per sq ft

€12.4/m²to rent, a month

€1,440property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€27,110median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

2,678 hof sunshine a year

66rainy days a year

44°Fwinter average, 6.4°C

74°Fsummer average, 23.1°C

55days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

14 minto the nearest station

55 minto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

15 minto the nearest hospital

3pharmacies within 15 minutes

9 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

3.9break-ins per 1,000 residents

0.2assault and robbery per 1,000

3other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

2,960residents

7 km²3 square miles

3%of homes are second homes

4%of homes stand empty

98%of homes can get fibre

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Figures from the DVF land registry, INSEE, Météo-France, Arcep, the SSMSI, FINESS and the DREES, rebuilt four times a year. Travel times are road approximations, and prices in the smallest communes are estimated from neighbouring ones. Photograph from Wikimedia Commons.