Angoulême

A French city of 41,908

€1,660/m²to buy

2,053 hof sun a year

5 minto a hospital

41,908residents

Angoulême is a French city of 41,908 in Charente. Homes go for about €1,660 a square metre. 2,053 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€1,660/m²to buy, $179 per sq ft

€10.4/m²to rent, a month

€1,810property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€22,490median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

2,053 hof sunshine a year

123rainy days a year

44°Fwinter average, 6.5°C

69°Fsummer average, 20.3°C

26days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

8 minto the nearest station

1.4 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

5 minto the nearest hospital

6pharmacies within 15 minutes

5 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

4.5break-ins per 1,000 residents

14.0assault and robbery per 1,000

23other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

41,908residents

22 km²8 square miles

3%of homes are second homes

9%of homes stand empty

95%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Charente

Cognac Soyaux La Couronne Saint-Yrieix-sur-Charente Ruelle-sur-Touvre Gond-Pontouvre L'Isle-d'Espagnac Champniers Barbezieux-Saint-Hilaire Jarnac Roullet-Saint-Estèphe Brie

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.