La Roche-sur-Foron

A French city of 11,348, in the mountains

€3,750/m²to buy

1,936 hof sun a year

5 minto a hospital

11,348residents

La Roche-sur-Foron is a French city of 11,348 in Haute-Savoie. Homes go for about €3,750 a square metre. 1,936 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€3,750/m²to buy, $404 per sq ft

€18/m²to rent, a month

€770property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€32,850median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,936 hof sunshine a year

125rainy days a year

35°Fwinter average, 1.7°C

65°Fsummer average, 18.5°C

13days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

9 minto the nearest station

3.5 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

5 minto the nearest hospital

nonepharmacies within 15 minutes

5 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

2.9break-ins per 1,000 residents

5.6assault and robbery per 1,000

9other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

11,348residents

18 km²7 square miles

3%of homes are second homes

8%of homes stand empty

69%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Haute-Savoie

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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.