Trappes

A French city of 34,689

€2,870/m²to buy

1,723 hof sun a year

5 minto a hospital

34,689residents

Trappes is a French city of 34,689 in Yvelines. Homes go for about €2,870 a square metre. 1,723 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€2,870/m²to buy, $309 per sq ft

€17.7/m²to rent, a month

€1,060property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€20,060median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,723 hof sunshine a year

116rainy days a year

40°Fwinter average, 4.7°C

66°Fsummer average, 18.7°C

10days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

20 minto the nearest station

2.0 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

5 minto the nearest hospital

13pharmacies within 15 minutes

10 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

1.1break-ins per 1,000 residents

6.2assault and robbery per 1,000

14other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

34,689residents

14 km²5 square miles

1%of homes are second homes

5%of homes stand empty

96%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Yvelines

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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.