Octeville-sur-Mer

A French city of 6,172, on the coast

€3,000/m²to buy

1,777 hof sun a year

14 minto a hospital

6,172residents

Octeville-sur-Mer is a French city of 6,172 in Seine-Maritime. Homes go for about €3,000 a square metre. 1,777 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€3,000/m²to buy, $323 per sq ft

€12.8/m²to rent, a month

€1,480property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€32,930median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,777 hof sunshine a year

133rainy days a year

43°Fwinter average, 6°C

63°Fsummer average, 17.3°C

3days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

14 minto the nearest station

On the coastthe sea is here

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

14 minto the nearest hospital

3pharmacies within 15 minutes

14 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

2.0break-ins per 1,000 residents

0.5assault and robbery per 1,000

2other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

6,172residents

21 km²8 square miles

1%of homes are second homes

4%of homes stand empty

96%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Seine-Maritime

Le Havre Rouen Saint-Étienne-du-Rouvray Sotteville-lès-Rouen Dieppe Le Grand-Quevilly Le Petit-Quevilly Mont-Saint-Aignan Fécamp Montivilliers Elbeuf Bois-Guillaume

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.