Gruchet-le-Valasse

A French city of 3,008

€1,800/m²to buy

1,721 hof sun a year

11 minto a hospital

3,008residents

Gruchet-le-Valasse is a French city of 3,008 in Seine-Maritime. Homes go for about €1,800 a square metre. 1,721 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€1,800/m²to buy, $194 per sq ft

€9.6/m²to rent, a month

€1,450property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€24,820median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,721 hof sunshine a year

149rainy days a year

42°Fwinter average, 5.5°C

64°Fsummer average, 17.6°C

6days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

13 minto the nearest station

26 minto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

11 minto the nearest hospital

1pharmacies within 15 minutes

11 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

0.7break-ins per 1,000 residents

1.2assault and robbery per 1,000

4other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

3,008residents

14 km²5 square miles

1%of homes are second homes

4%of homes stand empty

98%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Seine-Maritime

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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.