Fontenay-le-Comte

A French city of 14,059

€1,460/m²to buy

2,111 hof sun a year

5 minto a hospital

14,059residents

Fontenay-le-Comte is a French city of 14,059 in Vendée. Homes go for about €1,460 a square metre. 2,111 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€1,460/m²to buy, $157 per sq ft

€10.1/m²to rent, a month

€1,110property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€24,230median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

2,111 hof sunshine a year

121rainy days a year

44°Fwinter average, 6.5°C

68°Fsummer average, 19.9°C

20days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

37 minto the nearest station

39 minto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

5 minto the nearest hospital

2pharmacies within 15 minutes

5 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

2.7break-ins per 1,000 residents

6.3assault and robbery per 1,000

13other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

14,059residents

34 km²13 square miles

3%of homes are second homes

12%of homes stand empty

96%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Vendée

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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.