Cholet

A French city of 54,404

€2,100/m²to buy

1,972 hof sun a year

5 minto a hospital

54,404residents

Cholet is a French city of 54,404 in Maine-et-Loire. Homes go for about €2,100 a square metre. 1,972 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€2,100/m²to buy, $226 per sq ft

€10.8/m²to rent, a month

€1,550property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€25,020median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,972 hof sunshine a year

118rainy days a year

43°Fwinter average, 5.9°C

66°Fsummer average, 19°C

13days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

9 minto the nearest station

1.3 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

5 minto the nearest hospital

3pharmacies within 15 minutes

5 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

2.6break-ins per 1,000 residents

6.6assault and robbery per 1,000

9other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

54,404residents

87 km²34 square miles

2%of homes are second homes

6%of homes stand empty

98%of homes can get fibre

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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.