Merville-Franceville-Plage

A French city of 2,231, on the coast

€4,170/m²to buy

1,769 hof sun a year

17 minto a hospital

2,231residents

Merville-Franceville-Plage is a French city of 2,231 in Calvados. Homes go for about €4,170 a square metre. 1,769 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€4,170/m²to buy, $449 per sq ft

€12.7/m²to rent, a month

€1,340property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€28,650median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,769 hof sunshine a year

131rainy days a year

43°Fwinter average, 6.3°C

63°Fsummer average, 17.4°C

4days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

16 minto the nearest station

On the coastthe sea is here

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

17 minto the nearest hospital

nonepharmacies within 15 minutes

12 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

0.3break-ins per 1,000 residents

0.5assault and robbery per 1,000

5other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

2,231residents

11 km²4 square miles

58%of homes are second homes

4%of homes stand empty

96%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.