Gond-Pontouvre

A French city of 5,862

€1,600/m²to buy

2,041 hof sun a year

11 minto a hospital

5,862residents

Gond-Pontouvre is a French city of 5,862 in Charente. Homes go for about €1,600 a square metre. 2,041 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€1,600/m²to buy, $172 per sq ft

€9.9/m²to rent, a month

€1,610property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€24,360median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

2,041 hof sunshine a year

122rainy days a year

44°Fwinter average, 6.4°C

69°Fsummer average, 20.3°C

25days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

10 minto the nearest station

1.4 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

11 minto the nearest hospital

4pharmacies within 15 minutes

5 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

3.4break-ins per 1,000 residents

4.8assault and robbery per 1,000

11other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

5,862residents

7 km²3 square miles

2%of homes are second homes

10%of homes stand empty

94%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Charente

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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.