Barentin

A French city of 12,022

€1,980/m²to buy

1,685 hof sun a year

5 minto a hospital

12,022residents

Barentin is a French city of 12,022 in Seine-Maritime. Homes go for about €1,980 a square metre. 1,685 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€1,980/m²to buy, $213 per sq ft

€10.8/m²to rent, a month

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

€24,030median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,685 hof sunshine a year

143rainy days a year

41°Fwinter average, 5.2°C

64°Fsummer average, 17.9°C

9days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

6 minto the nearest station

46 minto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

5 minto the nearest hospital

2pharmacies within 15 minutes

5 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

1.7break-ins per 1,000 residents

4.2assault and robbery per 1,000

10other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

12,022residents

13 km²5 square miles

1%of homes are second homes

3%of homes stand empty

97%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Seine-Maritime

Le Havre Rouen Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray Sotteville-lès-Rouen Dieppe Le Grand-Quevilly Le Petit-Quevilly Mont-Saint-Aignan Fécamp Montivilliers Elbeuf Bois-Guillaume

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.