La Boixe

A French city of 2,841

€1,520/m²to buy

2,022 hof sun a year

22 minto a hospital

2,841residents

La Boixe is a French city of 2,841 in Charente. Homes go for about €1,520 a square metre. 2,022 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€1,520/m²to buy, $164 per sq ft

€9.1/m²to rent, a month

€1,620property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€25,880median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

2,022 hof sunshine a year

121rainy days a year

43°Fwinter average, 6.3°C

68°Fsummer average, 20.2°C

25days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

20 minto the nearest station

1.4 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

22 minto the nearest hospital

nonepharmacies within 15 minutes

13 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

1.1break-ins per 1,000 residents

0.5assault and robbery per 1,000

4other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

2,841residents

28 km²11 square miles

4%of homes are second homes

8%of homes stand empty

99%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Charente

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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.