Vals-près-le-Puy

A French city of 3,395, in the mountains

€1,680/m²to buy

1,983 hof sun a year

9 minto a hospital

3,395residents

Vals-près-le-Puy is a French city of 3,395 in Haute-Loire. Homes go for about €1,680 a square metre. 1,983 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€1,680/m²to buy, $181 per sq ft

€9.3/m²to rent, a month

€1,420property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€26,300median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,983 hof sunshine a year

94rainy days a year

37°Fwinter average, 2.8°C

65°Fsummer average, 18.3°C

18days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

10 minto the nearest station

2.3 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

9 minto the nearest hospital

2pharmacies within 15 minutes

5 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

0.4break-ins per 1,000 residents

1.6assault and robbery per 1,000

5other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

3,395residents

5 km²2 square miles

3%of homes are second homes

8%of homes stand empty

98%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Haute-Loire

Le Puy-en-Velay Monistrol-sur-Loire Yssingeaux Brioude Aurec-sur-Loire Sainte-Sigolène Bas-en-Basset Brives-Charensac Saint-Just-Malmont Espaly-Saint-Marcel Saint-Didier-en-Velay Langeac

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.