La Forêt-sur-Sèvre

A French city of 2,250

€970/m²to buy

2,019 hof sun a year

24 minto a hospital

2,250residents

La Forêt-sur-Sèvre is a French city of 2,250 in Deux-Sèvres. Homes go for about €970 a square metre. 2,019 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€970/m²to buy, $105 per sq ft

€8.1/m²to rent, a month

€1,220property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€24,210median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

2,019 hof sunshine a year

120rainy days a year

42°Fwinter average, 5.5°C

66°Fsummer average, 19°C

14days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

15 minto the nearest station

1.1 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

24 minto the nearest hospital

nonepharmacies within 15 minutes

14 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

0.4break-ins per 1,000 residents

0.5assault and robbery per 1,000

1other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

2,250residents

56 km²22 square miles

4%of homes are second homes

9%of homes stand empty

92%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Deux-Sèvres

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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.