Orcines, Puy-de-Dôme
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Orcines

A French city of 3,609, in the mountains

€2,380/m²to buy
1,928 hof sun a year
17 minto a hospital
3,609residents

Orcines is a French city of 3,609 in Puy-de-Dôme. Homes go for about €2,380 a square metre. 1,928 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE
€2,380/m²to buy, $256 per sq ft
€10.6/m²to rent, a month
€1,140property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill
€32,230median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals
1,928 hof sunshine a year
126rainy days a year
35°Fwinter average, 1.7°C
60°Fsummer average, 15.8°C
7days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances
12 minto the nearest station
3.5 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES
17 minto the nearest hospital
2pharmacies within 15 minutes
12 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior
3.7break-ins per 1,000 residents
0.2assault and robbery per 1,000
5other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep
3,609residents
43 km²16 square miles
4%of homes are second homes
9%of homes stand empty
95%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Puy-de-Dôme

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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.