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It is a town of 3,710 residents in Guadeloupe. Over-65s are 29% of the population.
Pupils here do less well than most (D−): brevet results 13 points below the expected rate. Jobs and pay trail most towns: 0.7 jobs per working resident; 21.8% unemployment. It also trails on safety — an average of 13.8 recorded violent incidents and 17.3 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Second homes make up just over two fifths of its housing.
Figures: brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education · employment, INSEE census 2023 · recorded crime, SSMSI (Ministry of the Interior). Deshaies has no overall grade because cost of living and walkability aren’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 3 things Deshaies does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Deshaies with other French towns of 2,500 or more, ordered by how far its rank is from the middle. American and UK towns are graded separately.
Deshaies has no overall grade because cost of living and walkability aren’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Deshaies as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Habitation La Lise, in Bouillante, 10.3 mi away.
0.8% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Deshaies.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
For exam results, it comes #25 of 25 in Guadeloupe. No general lycée lies within 5 km; the nearest is 5.7 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Félix Aladin FléminNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 45 | 67%−13 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Over 2025, Deshaies logged 124 recorded offenses. Criminal damage topped the graded crimes in Deshaies (2025).
Not in the gradeTheft without violence, drug use and fraud are shown for information but left out of the Safety Grade, which counts violence plus burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and criminal damage per resident.
Source: SSMSI (Interior Ministry), recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Licence Ouverte · For armed robbery, the count isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in a year of the last three), so the index uses the département’s average, 7.0% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
433 deaths in Deshaies between 2016 and 2025, where France’s rates at each age predict 426: 2% above. After the care-home adjustment, Deshaies’ deaths ran at 102 per 100 expected, higher than compared French towns (88). Also worth knowing: the nearest emergency department to Deshaies is Clinique les Eaux Claires, 14.7 mi away. There are 5 general practitioners locally.
Source: INSEE, deaths by commune of residence 2016–2025 and censuses; Eurostat, death rates by age (© European Union); INSEE, BPE 2025; DREES, APL 2024; INSEE, life expectancy by département 2025 · Licence Ouverte · Care-home places are adjusted for by TownRatings, using a model rather than an official statistic.
The 65-and-over age group makes up 29% of residents. 9.1% of the population is aged 15 to 24, lower than compared French towns (11%). Among adults, 23% have a degree.
52% women, 48% men
About 93 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: France 51.8%. Women live longer than men, so towns with many older residents have more women.
| Deshaies | France median | |
|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 11% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.1% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 16% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 36% | 26% |
| 65+ | 29% | 22% |
| No diploma | 30% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 24% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 17% | 18% |
| Higher education | 23% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · France median: the median of compared communes (Guadeloupe has none of its own)
Bus, tram or train carried 5.4% of working residents in Deshaies to work at the census. At the census, nearly a tenth of working residents in Deshaies didn’t travel to work at all.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Deshaies is the second most expensive of the 21 towns in Guadeloupe, at €4,588/m². Estimated advertised rent for houses: €13.44/m² a month. Among the homes sold, 96% were houses.
| By type | Median per m² | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | €4,368/m² | 44 |
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Other places to visit, gardens and heritage in and near Deshaies. Best known first.
GardenJardin botanique de Deshaiesin townAttractionAttractionPlage de Grande Ansein townRuinsRuinsAncienne Batteriein townAttractionAttractionLieu pour "Death In Paradise" (Poste de Police de Honoré)in townPhotos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).
Nothing in Deshaies is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
3 notable people were born in Deshaies.
Max Mathiasin: Jean-Luc Hauser, CC BY-SA 4.0
The nearest towns of 2,500 or more. The map uses IGN’s commune boundaries. See them on the map →
| Town | People | Miles | Overall | Cost | Safety | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deshaies | 3,710 | — | — | — | C− | C− |
| Pointe-Noire | 5,762 | 5.1 | — | — | C | D |
| Sainte-Rose | 17,700 | 6.6 | — | — | D | C |
| Lamentin | 18,628 | 11 | — | — | C− | D |
| Bouillante | 6,127 | 12 | — | — | C− | C |
| Baie-Mahault | 30,924 | 14 | — | — | D | C |
| Petit-Bourg | 24,665 | 16 | — | — | C | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
It grades C− for safety, #17 of 26 in Guadeloupe. In 2025 police and gendarmerie recorded 7 burglaries and 37 acts of criminal damage.
They grade D−, better than 0% of compared French towns. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Guadeloupe
Deshaies is a commune of 3,710 people in the Communauté d'agglomération du Nord Basse-Terre. TownRatings compares communes, France’s local unit: each has its own mayor and its own statistics. Its area takes in the town and the countryside around it.
Built from INSEE’s 2026 official geography (COG) and IGN Admin Express boundaries
Sources: INSEE, census 2023 (population, employment, commuting) · INSEE, Filosofi 2023 (income per consumption unit, poverty) · DGFiP, DVF property sales, July 2023 to June 2026 · Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025 · SSMSI, recorded crime by commune, 2023–2025 · Ministry of Education (DEPP), brevet and bac results and value-added indicators, 2025 · INSEE, deaths by commune of residence 2016–2025 and censuses 2012–2023; Eurostat, death rates by age (© European Union); INSEE, BPE 2025 (care homes, emergency and maternity units, GPs, pharmacies); DREES, APL 2024; INSEE, life expectancy by département 2025 (provisional) · INSEE, BPE 2025 and Filosofi 200 m grid (walking distances) · IGN Admin Express (boundaries) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking French towns against each other only, updated November 4, 2026. Under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab).
Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.