Préaux

A French city of 1,849

€2,470/m²to buy

1,602 hof sun a year

15 minto a hospital

1,849residents

Préaux is a French city of 1,849 in Seine-Maritime. Homes go for about €2,470 a square metre. 1,602 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€2,470/m²to buy, $266 per sq ft

€10.8/m²to rent, a month

€1,570property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€31,400median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,602 hof sunshine a year

137rainy days a year

40°Fwinter average, 4.6°C

64°Fsummer average, 17.5°C

8days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

12 minto the nearest station

54 minto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

15 minto the nearest hospital

nonepharmacies within 15 minutes

12 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

0.1break-ins per 1,000 residents

0.4assault and robbery per 1,000

1other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

1,849residents

19 km²7 square miles

1%of homes are second homes

4%of homes stand empty

98%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.