Houilles

A French city of 33,983

€5,000/m²to buy

1,812 hof sun a year

8 minto a hospital

33,983residents

Houilles is a French city of 33,983 in Yvelines. Homes go for about €5,000 a square metre. 1,812 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€5,000/m²to buy, $539 per sq ft

€20.3/m²to rent, a month

€940property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€34,450median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,812 hof sunshine a year

114rainy days a year

42°Fwinter average, 5.7°C

68°Fsummer average, 20°C

17days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

12 minto the nearest station

1.9 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

8 minto the nearest hospital

27pharmacies within 15 minutes

5 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

4.2break-ins per 1,000 residents

3.6assault and robbery per 1,000

14other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

33,983residents

5 km²2 square miles

2%of homes are second homes

5%of homes stand empty

97%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.