Chelles

A French city of 54,620

€3,530/m²to buy

1,763 hof sun a year

5 minto a hospital

54,620residents

Chelles is a French city of 54,620 in Seine-et-Marne. Homes go for about €3,530 a square metre. 1,763 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€3,530/m²to buy, $380 per sq ft

€17.4/m²to rent, a month

€1,240property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€26,290median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,763 hof sunshine a year

120rainy days a year

41°Fwinter average, 5°C

67°Fsummer average, 19.3°C

16days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

23 minto the nearest station

2.2 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

5 minto the nearest hospital

13pharmacies within 15 minutes

5 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

3.4break-ins per 1,000 residents

5.2assault and robbery per 1,000

14other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

54,620residents

16 km²6 square miles

1%of homes are second homes

6%of homes stand empty

98%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Seine-et-Marne

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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.