Bourg-Argental

A French city of 2,886

€1,470/m²to buy

2,024 hof sun a year

18 minto a hospital

2,886residents

Bourg-Argental is a French city of 2,886 in Loire. Homes go for about €1,470 a square metre. 2,024 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€1,470/m²to buy, $158 per sq ft

€8.4/m²to rent, a month

€1,210property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€25,090median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

2,024 hof sunshine a year

105rainy days a year

38°Fwinter average, 3.1°C

66°Fsummer average, 19.1°C

20days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

28 minto the nearest station

2.7 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

18 minto the nearest hospital

nonepharmacies within 15 minutes

5 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

2.9break-ins per 1,000 residents

2.3assault and robbery per 1,000

2other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

2,886residents

20 km²8 square miles

6%of homes are second homes

11%of homes stand empty

99%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Loire

Saint-Étienne Saint-Chamond Roanne Firminy Montbrison Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert Rive-de-Gier Le Chambon-Feugerolles Riorges Andrézieux-Bouthéon Roche-la-Molière Veauche

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.