Garancières

A French city of 2,621

€3,470/m²to buy

1,747 hof sun a year

21 minto a hospital

2,621residents

Garancières is a French city of 2,621 in Yvelines. Homes go for about €3,470 a square metre. 1,747 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€3,470/m²to buy, $374 per sq ft

€16.1/m²to rent, a month

€900property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€35,080median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,747 hof sunshine a year

114rainy days a year

41°Fwinter average, 4.8°C

65°Fsummer average, 18.5°C

13days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

28 minto the nearest station

1.8 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

21 minto the nearest hospital

nonepharmacies within 15 minutes

9 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

1.5break-ins per 1,000 residents

0.1assault and robbery per 1,000

3other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

2,621residents

10 km²4 square miles

6%of homes are second homes

4%of homes stand empty

98%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Yvelines

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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.