🏙 Property in Varennes-le-Grand (71240)

Varennes-le-Grand has a population of 2,293, a density of about 120 inhabitants per km². Advertised rents for flats are around €11.8/m² per month (2025). Between 2022 and 2025, advertised rents are up by 28.4%. The overall property tax rate on buildings (taxe foncière) is 41.38% in 2025. The average reference taxable income per household is €33,355 (2024), and 53% of households pay income tax. Varennes-le-Grand has had 10 natural disaster declarations since 1982, 5 of them for floods or mudslides.

📰 Varennes-le-Grand at a glance

Département: Saône-et-Loire (71) · Region: Bourgogne-Franche-Comté

Size and profile

Varennes-le-Grand has a population of 2,293: it is one of the largest municipalities in its département, where the median is 400 inhabitants. With 120 inhabitants per km², it has a small-town or fringe profile.

Rents and prices

At €11.8/m² per month, the advertised rent is in the top quarter of its département (median: €9.1/m²). Between 2022 and 2025, the advertised rent has risen by 28.4%, faster than the département median (11.6%).

Incomes and taxation

The average reference taxable income per household (€33,355 in 2024) is above the median of the municipalities in its département (€31,211). It has risen by 22.1% since 2018, at the same pace as the département median (22.2%). 53% of tax households there pay income tax, against 48% for the median of the municipalities in its département. The overall property tax rate (41.38%) is 3.5 points higher than the département median (37.90%).

Hazards and energy

Varennes-le-Grand has had 10 natural disaster declarations since 1982, i.e. far more than the median of the municipalities in its département (7). They mainly concern floods and mudslides (5 declarations). A natural risk prevention plan is in force in the municipality.

Points to watch before buying or renting

• Several “drought” declarations have been issued: ask whether the property has had cracks and check the clay shrink-swell map (Géorisques) before buying.
• Flood risk is listed: check the risk statement for the property and, if there is one, the prevention plan attached to the local urban plan.

Summary written automatically from the figures on this page, comparing the municipality with the median of the municipalities in its département (or of France when the département has too few municipalities with data).

💶 Prices and rents: how they have changed

42 listings observed. Estimate calculated across a group of neighbouring municipalities, less precise than a municipal estimate. These are advertised rents, service charges included: they are higher than the rents of existing leases. The estimation method was revised in 2022: only the 2022 and later editions, which are comparable with each other, are shown.

👥 Household incomes

Tax statistics from the DGFiP: income for 2024, declared the following year. The reference taxable income is an average: very sensitive to high incomes, it is not a substitute for a median income. The incomes are those of the tax households living in the municipality, not only those of co-owners.

🌊 Natural hazards

Hazards listed for the municipality:

A declaration recognises a state of natural disaster for a given event; it triggers the “natural disasters” cover of home insurance policies and of the building’s insurance. “Drought” declarations relate to the shrinking and swelling of clay soils, a frequent cause of cracks in buildings. A risk statement (état des risques) must in particular be attached to a sale or lease when the property lies in an area covered by a prevention plan, in seismic zone 2 to 5, or with a class 3 radon potential. This page presents municipal data: it does not replace the risk statement drawn up for the property’s address.

🧾 Property tax and local taxation

The overall rate adds the municipal share and the inter-municipal share. The tax due by an owner equals this rate applied to half of the home’s cadastral rental value, reduced where applicable by exemptions.

📊 Varennes-le-Grand compared with neighbouring municipalities

• Advertised rent: 11.8 €/m²/month, rank 2 of 9 municipalities compared, from highest to lowest (neighbours’ median: 11.8 €/m²/month).
• Average reference taxable income: 33,355 €, rank 6 of 9 municipalities compared, from highest to lowest (neighbours’ median: 34,381 €).
• Property tax rate: 41.38 %, rank 5 of 9 municipalities compared, from highest to lowest (neighbours’ median: 40.93 %).

The 8 nearest municipalities (as the crow flies, from the centre). Latest values available; “—”: data not published or too few sales. Rents are estimated for groups of municipalities: neighbours may share the same estimate. The rank compares the municipality with these neighbours, not with the whole of France.

📚 Sources and method

Each indicator comes from an open dataset that is kept over time: when a source is updated or corrected, the old value stays on record, which makes it possible to follow changes from one year to the next.

• Ministère de la Transition écologique, base GASPAR (Géorisques) — Licence Ouverte 2.0. Retrieved in October 2026.
• Carte des loyers © Ministère de la Transition écologique / ANIL — Licence Ouverte 2.0. Retrieved in October 2026.
• INSEE, API Géo (Etalab) — Licence Ouverte 2.0. Retrieved in October 2026.
• ASN / IRSN, potentiel radon des communes — Licence Ouverte 2.0. Retrieved in October 2026.
• DGFiP, impôt sur le revenu par collectivité territoriale (IRCOM) — Licence Ouverte 2.0. Retrieved in October 2026.
• DGFiP, fiscalité locale des particuliers — Licence Ouverte 2.0. Retrieved in October 2026.
• Sale prices: single-property sales (flats) in the streets where the register lists co-ownerships; median calculated from 10 sales or more.