Le Castelet

A French city of 1,850

€2,540/m²to buy

1,744 hof sun a year

16 minto a hospital

1,850residents

Le Castelet is a French city of 1,850 in Calvados. Homes go for about €2,540 a square metre. 1,744 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€2,540/m²to buy, $274 per sq ft

€10.8/m²to rent, a month

€1,730property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€28,530median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,744 hof sunshine a year

128rainy days a year

42°Fwinter average, 5.7°C

63°Fsummer average, 17.4°C

5days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

15 minto the nearest station

32 minto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

16 minto the nearest hospital

nonepharmacies within 15 minutes

5 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

0.3break-ins per 1,000 residents

0.5assault and robbery per 1,000

1other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

1,850residents

7 km²3 square miles

3%of homes stand empty

99%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Calvados

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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.