La Bâtie-Neuve

A French city of 2,628, in the mountains

€2,750/m²to buy

2,464 hof sun a year

21 minto a hospital

2,628residents

La Bâtie-Neuve is a French city of 2,628 in Hautes-Alpes. Homes go for about €2,750 a square metre. 2,464 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€2,750/m²to buy, $296 per sq ft

€10.8/m²to rent, a month

€1,430property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€25,800median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

2,464 hof sunshine a year

89rainy days a year

34°Fwinter average, 1.2°C

63°Fsummer average, 17.4°C

15days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

14 minto the nearest station

1.9 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

21 minto the nearest hospital

nonepharmacies within 15 minutes

19 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

0.1break-ins per 1,000 residents

0.4assault and robbery per 1,000

1other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

2,628residents

27 km²11 square miles

8%of homes are second homes

6%of homes stand empty

95%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.