Saint-Marcellin-en-Forez

A French city of 5,116, in the mountains

€2,250/m²to buy

1,974 hof sun a year

19 minto a hospital

5,116residents

Saint-Marcellin-en-Forez is a French city of 5,116 in Loire. Homes go for about €2,250 a square metre. 1,974 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€2,250/m²to buy, $242 per sq ft

€10/m²to rent, a month

€1,300property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€26,810median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,974 hof sunshine a year

106rainy days a year

38°Fwinter average, 3.6°C

66°Fsummer average, 18.9°C

19days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

12 minto the nearest station

2.9 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

19 minto the nearest hospital

nonepharmacies within 15 minutes

5 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

2.2break-ins per 1,000 residents

1.3assault and robbery per 1,000

2other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

5,116residents

31 km²12 square miles

3%of homes are second homes

7%of homes stand empty

99%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Loire

Saint-Étienne Saint-Chamond Roanne Firminy Montbrison Saint-Just-Saint-Rambert Rive-de-Gier Le Chambon-Feugerolles Riorges Andrézieux-Bouthéon Roche-la-Molière Veauche

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.