La Ferrière-aux-Étangs

A French city of 1,506

€960/m²to buy

1,702 hof sun a year

20 minto a hospital

1,506residents

La Ferrière-aux-Étangs is a French city of 1,506 in Orne. Homes go for about €960 a square metre. 1,702 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€960/m²to buy, $103 per sq ft

€7/m²to rent, a month

€1,740property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€23,510median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,702 hof sunshine a year

142rainy days a year

41°Fwinter average, 4.8°C

63°Fsummer average, 17.1°C

7days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

21 minto the nearest station

1.1 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

20 minto the nearest hospital

nonepharmacies within 15 minutes

5 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

1.0break-ins per 1,000 residents

0.5assault and robbery per 1,000

1other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

1,506residents

11 km²4 square miles

4%of homes are second homes

13%of homes stand empty

95%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Orne

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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.