Sorbiers

A French city of 8,116

€2,650/m²to buy

2,023 hof sun a year

9 minto a hospital

8,116residents

Sorbiers is a French city of 8,116 in Loire. Homes go for about €2,650 a square metre. 2,023 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€2,650/m²to buy, $286 per sq ft

€11.3/m²to rent, a month

€1,270property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€28,620median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

2,023 hof sunshine a year

104rainy days a year

38°Fwinter average, 3.6°C

67°Fsummer average, 19.6°C

21days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

14 minto the nearest station

2.9 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

9 minto the nearest hospital

2pharmacies within 15 minutes

9 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

5.9break-ins per 1,000 residents

1.0assault and robbery per 1,000

7other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

8,116residents

12 km²5 square miles

1%of homes are second homes

5%of homes stand empty

98%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.