Saclas

A French city of 1,819

€2,240/m²to buy

1,739 hof sun a year

16 minto a hospital

1,819residents

Saclas is a French city of 1,819 in Essonne. Homes go for about €2,240 a square metre. 1,739 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€2,240/m²to buy, $241 per sq ft

€12.3/m²to rent, a month

€1,010property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€29,050median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,739 hof sunshine a year

115rainy days a year

40°Fwinter average, 4.4°C

66°Fsummer average, 18.8°C

16days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

12 minto the nearest station

2.4 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

16 minto the nearest hospital

nonepharmacies within 15 minutes

13 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

0.1break-ins per 1,000 residents

0.2assault and robbery per 1,000

1other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

1,819residents

14 km²5 square miles

4%of homes are second homes

8%of homes stand empty

96%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Essonne

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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.