Issou

A French city of 4,060

€2,800/m²to buy

1,740 hof sun a year

13 minto a hospital

4,060residents

Issou is a French city of 4,060 in Yvelines. Homes go for about €2,800 a square metre. 1,740 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€2,800/m²to buy, $302 per sq ft

€15.4/m²to rent, a month

€1,200property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€28,280median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,740 hof sunshine a year

118rainy days a year

41°Fwinter average, 4.8°C

65°Fsummer average, 18.6°C

15days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

15 minto the nearest station

1.7 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

13 minto the nearest hospital

4pharmacies within 15 minutes

8 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

0.9break-ins per 1,000 residents

2.2assault and robbery per 1,000

5other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

4,060residents

5 km²2 square miles

1%of homes are second homes

4%of homes stand empty

92%of homes can get fibre

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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.