Boos

A French city of 3,975

€2,450/m²to buy

1,564 hof sun a year

14 minto a hospital

3,975residents

Boos is a French city of 3,975 in Seine-Maritime. Homes go for about €2,450 a square metre. 1,564 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€2,450/m²to buy, $264 per sq ft

€11.5/m²to rent, a month

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

€28,670median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,564 hof sunshine a year

135rainy days a year

41°Fwinter average, 4.8°C

64°Fsummer average, 17.9°C

8days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

15 minto the nearest station

1.1 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

14 minto the nearest hospital

1pharmacies within 15 minutes

10 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

0.8break-ins per 1,000 residents

0.3assault and robbery per 1,000

2other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

3,975residents

14 km²5 square miles

1%of homes are second homes

3%of homes stand empty

98%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.