Château-Guibert

A French city of 1,584

€1,860/m²to buy

2,057 hof sun a year

25 minto a hospital

1,584residents

Château-Guibert is a French city of 1,584 in Vendée. Homes go for about €1,860 a square metre. 2,057 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€1,860/m²to buy, $200 per sq ft

€10.2/m²to rent, a month

€1,190property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€25,950median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

2,057 hof sunshine a year

124rainy days a year

44°Fwinter average, 6.7°C

67°Fsummer average, 19.4°C

17days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

19 minto the nearest station

35 minto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

25 minto the nearest hospital

nonepharmacies within 15 minutes

5 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

0.5break-ins per 1,000 residents

0.5assault and robbery per 1,000

1other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

1,584residents

35 km²14 square miles

7%of homes are second homes

7%of homes stand empty

92%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Vendée

La Roche-sur-Yon Les Sables-d'Olonne Challans Montaigu-Vendée Les Herbiers Fontenay-le-Comte Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez Aizenay Luçon Saint-Jean-de-Monts Le Poiré-sur-Vie Chantonnay

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.