Saint-Malô-du-Bois

A French city of 1,612

€2,020/m²to buy

1,972 hof sun a year

20 minto a hospital

1,612residents

Saint-Malô-du-Bois is a French city of 1,612 in Vendée. Homes go for about €2,020 a square metre. 1,972 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€2,020/m²to buy, $218 per sq ft

€9.4/m²to rent, a month

€980property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€26,990median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,972 hof sunshine a year

125rainy days a year

43°Fwinter average, 6.1°C

66°Fsummer average, 19.1°C

15days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

26 minto the nearest station

1.1 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

20 minto the nearest hospital

nonepharmacies within 15 minutes

10 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

0.5break-ins per 1,000 residents

0.5assault and robbery per 1,000

2other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

1,612residents

14 km²5 square miles

2%of homes are second homes

5%of homes stand empty

99%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Vendée

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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.