Hérouville-Saint-Clair

A French city of 23,470

€2,050/m²to buy

1,770 hof sun a year

5 minto a hospital

23,470residents

Hérouville-Saint-Clair is a French city of 23,470 in Calvados. Homes go for about €2,050 a square metre. 1,770 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€2,050/m²to buy, $221 per sq ft

€12.3/m²to rent, a month

€1,580property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€20,270median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,770 hof sunshine a year

130rainy days a year

43°Fwinter average, 6.1°C

63°Fsummer average, 17.3°C

4days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

11 minto the nearest station

19 minto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

5 minto the nearest hospital

8pharmacies within 15 minutes

5 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

1.6break-ins per 1,000 residents

6.7assault and robbery per 1,000

10other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

23,470residents

11 km²4 square miles

1%of homes are second homes

5%of homes stand empty

99%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Calvados

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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.