Argentan

A French city of 13,527

€1,480/m²to buy

1,727 hof sun a year

5 minto a hospital

13,527residents

Argentan is a French city of 13,527 in Orne. Homes go for about €1,480 a square metre. 1,727 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€1,480/m²to buy, $159 per sq ft

€8.5/m²to rent, a month

€1,740property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€21,530median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,727 hof sunshine a year

126rainy days a year

40°Fwinter average, 4.7°C

63°Fsummer average, 17.2°C

7days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

7 minto the nearest station

1.1 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

5 minto the nearest hospital

nonepharmacies within 15 minutes

5 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

3.1break-ins per 1,000 residents

8.4assault and robbery per 1,000

11other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

13,527residents

18 km²7 square miles

2%of homes are second homes

8%of homes stand empty

97%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Orne

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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.