Saint-Colomban

A French city of 3,500

€2,350/m²to buy

1,919 hof sun a year

17 minto a hospital

3,500residents

Saint-Colomban is a French city of 3,500 in Loire-Atlantique. Homes go for about €2,350 a square metre. 1,919 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€2,350/m²to buy, $253 per sq ft

€11.6/m²to rent, a month

€1,050property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€26,570median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,919 hof sunshine a year

124rainy days a year

44°Fwinter average, 6.6°C

66°Fsummer average, 19.1°C

15days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

25 minto the nearest station

40 minto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

17 minto the nearest hospital

nonepharmacies within 15 minutes

12 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

1.0break-ins per 1,000 residents

0.4assault and robbery per 1,000

5other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

3,500residents

36 km²14 square miles

2%of homes are second homes

4%of homes stand empty

99%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Loire-Atlantique

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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.