Versailles

A French city of 84,095

€6,700/m²to buy

1,756 hof sun a year

5 minto a hospital

84,095residents

Versailles is a French city of 84,095 in Yvelines. Homes go for about €6,700 a square metre. 1,756 hours of sunshine a year. Every figure from official French sources.

What it costs

DVF land registry, DGFiP, INSEE

€6,700/m²to buy, $722 per sq ft

€24.6/m²to rent, a month

€800property tax a year on a flat €2,500 base, to compare communes, not your bill

€38,530median income per adult, after tax

The weather

Météo-France 1991-2020 normals

1,756 hof sunshine a year

115rainy days a year

40°Fwinter average, 4.7°C

66°Fsummer average, 18.7°C

11days above 30°C a year

Getting there

SNCF timetables, road distances

8 minto the nearest station

2.1 hto the sea

Healthcare

FINESS, DREES

5 minto the nearest hospital

17pharmacies within 15 minutes

5 minto a care home

Safety

SSMSI, ministry of the interior

2.5break-ins per 1,000 residents

4.7assault and robbery per 1,000

11other theft per 1,000

Who lives here

INSEE census, Arcep

84,095residents

26 km²10 square miles

5%of homes are second homes

8%of homes stand empty

95%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.