Varennes-le-Grand

A French city of 2,293

€1,890/m²to buy

1,940 hof sun a year

5 minto a hospital

2,293residents

Varennes-le-Grand is a French city of 2,293 in Saône-et-Loire. Homes go for about €1,890 a square metre. 1,940 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€1,890/m²to buy, $204 per sq ft

€9.3/m²to rent, a month

€1,280property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€28,090median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,940 hof sunshine a year

117rainy days a year

39°Fwinter average, 3.8°C

69°Fsummer average, 20.3°C

26days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

16 minto the nearest station

4.5 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

5 minto the nearest hospital

nonepharmacies within 15 minutes

5 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

1.1break-ins per 1,000 residents

4.3assault and robbery per 1,000

2other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

2,293residents

19 km²7 square miles

2%of homes are second homes

8%of homes stand empty

100%of homes can get fibre

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Elsewhere in Saône-et-Loire

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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.