La Ville-du-Bois

A French city of 8,161

€3,480/m²to buy

1,739 hof sun a year

9 minto a hospital

8,161residents

La Ville-du-Bois is a French city of 8,161 in Essonne. Homes go for about €3,480 a square metre. 1,739 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€3,480/m²to buy, $375 per sq ft

€17.4/m²to rent, a month

€1,180property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€30,550median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,739 hof sunshine a year

115rainy days a year

40°Fwinter average, 4.7°C

66°Fsummer average, 19.1°C

14days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

13 minto the nearest station

2.3 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

9 minto the nearest hospital

8pharmacies within 15 minutes

5 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

2.8break-ins per 1,000 residents

3.8assault and robbery per 1,000

18other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

8,161residents

4 km²1 square miles

2%of homes are second homes

5%of homes stand empty

87%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Essonne

Évry-Courcouronnes Corbeil-Essonnes Massy Savigny-sur-Orge Palaiseau Athis-Mons Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Vigneux-sur-Seine Ris-Orangis Viry-Châtillon Draveil Yerres

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.