Saint-Germain-du-Bois

A French city of 1,977

€1,450/m²to buy

1,936 hof sun a year

21 minto a hospital

1,977residents

Saint-Germain-du-Bois is a French city of 1,977 in Saône-et-Loire. Homes go for about €1,450 a square metre. 1,936 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€1,450/m²to buy, $156 per sq ft

€9.2/m²to rent, a month

€1,370property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€24,330median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,936 hof sunshine a year

127rainy days a year

38°Fwinter average, 3.3°C

68°Fsummer average, 20°C

22days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

17 minto the nearest station

4.6 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

21 minto the nearest hospital

nonepharmacies within 15 minutes

5 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

2.0break-ins per 1,000 residents

0.3assault and robbery per 1,000

3other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

1,977residents

30 km²12 square miles

9%of homes are second homes

9%of homes stand empty

98%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Saône-et-Loire

Chalon-sur-Saône Mâcon Le Creusot Montceau-les-Mines Autun Paray-le-Monial Saint-Vallier Charnay-lès-Mâcon Digoin Gueugnon Louhans-Châteaurenaud Saint-Rémy

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.