La Roche-sur-Yon

A French city of 54,849

€2,430/m²to buy

1,954 hof sun a year

5 minto a hospital

54,849residents

La Roche-sur-Yon is a French city of 54,849 in Vendée. Homes go for about €2,430 a square metre. 1,954 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€2,430/m²to buy, $262 per sq ft

€11.4/m²to rent, a month

€1,280property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€25,090median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,954 hof sunshine a year

123rainy days a year

44°Fwinter average, 6.4°C

66°Fsummer average, 19°C

13days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

9 minto the nearest station

39 minto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

5 minto the nearest hospital

6pharmacies within 15 minutes

5 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

2.8break-ins per 1,000 residents

8.1assault and robbery per 1,000

11other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

54,849residents

88 km²34 square miles

4%of homes are second homes

7%of homes stand empty

95%of homes can get fibre

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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.