Sornay

A French city of 1,960

€1,450/m²to buy

1,940 hof sun a year

13 minto a hospital

1,960residents

Sornay is a French city of 1,960 in Saône-et-Loire. Homes go for about €1,450 a square metre. 1,940 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

€8.6/m²to rent, a month

€970property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€23,910median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,940 hof sunshine a year

128rainy days a year

39°Fwinter average, 3.8°C

68°Fsummer average, 20.1°C

23days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

11 minto the nearest station

4.4 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

13 minto the nearest hospital

nonepharmacies within 15 minutes

13 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

0.4break-ins per 1,000 residents

0.3assault and robbery per 1,000

1other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

1,960residents

18 km²7 square miles

4%of homes are second homes

6%of homes stand empty

99%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.