La Ferté-Alais

A French city of 3,731

€2,790/m²to buy

1,740 hof sun a year

15 minto a hospital

3,731residents

La Ferté-Alais is a French city of 3,731 in Essonne. Homes go for about €2,790 a square metre. 1,740 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€2,790/m²to buy, $301 per sq ft

€15.1/m²to rent, a month

€1,000property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€29,720median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,740 hof sunshine a year

116rainy days a year

40°Fwinter average, 4.6°C

66°Fsummer average, 19°C

15days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

13 minto the nearest station

2.5 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

15 minto the nearest hospital

1pharmacies within 15 minutes

5 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

0.6break-ins per 1,000 residents

3.1assault and robbery per 1,000

7other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

3,731residents

5 km²2 square miles

2%of homes are second homes

10%of homes stand empty

99%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Essonne

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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.