Le Chambon-sur-Lignon

A French city of 2,501, in the mountains

€1,450/m²to buy

2,039 hof sun a year

5 minto a hospital

2,501residents

Le Chambon-sur-Lignon is a French city of 2,501 in Haute-Loire. Homes go for about €1,450 a square metre. 2,039 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€1,450/m²to buy, $156 per sq ft

€8.3/m²to rent, a month

€1,650property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€23,900median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

2,039 hof sunshine a year

115rainy days a year

35°Fwinter average, 1.4°C

62°Fsummer average, 16.5°C

5days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

36 minto the nearest station

2.3 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

0.2break-ins per 1,000 residents

0.7assault and robbery per 1,000

3other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

2,501residents

42 km²16 square miles

36%of homes are second homes

10%of homes stand empty

93%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Haute-Loire

Le Puy-en-Velay Monistrol-sur-Loire Yssingeaux Brioude Aurec-sur-Loire Sainte-Sigolène Bas-en-Basset Brives-Charensac Saint-Just-Malmont Espaly-Saint-Marcel Saint-Didier-en-Velay Langeac

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.