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Population 2,610: a town in Guadeloupe.
Health outcomes fall short of most towns: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 5% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. Second homes make up 19% of its housing. It skews older: 30% of residents are 65 or over.
Figures: deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · employment, INSEE census 2023. Saint-Louis has no overall grade because cost of living, safety, schools and walkability aren’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Saint-Louis 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.
Saint-Louis has no overall grade because cost of living, safety, schools and walkability aren’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The 2 things Saint-Louis does most differently from other towns.
The Culture ministry lists no building in Saint-Louis as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Sucrerie Trianon, in Grand-Bourg, 3.8 mi away.
0.7% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Saint-Louis is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Data highlights are ordered by what stands out in Saint-Louis.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
France’s death rates at each age would predict 335 deaths in Saint-Louis from 2016 to 2025; there were 393, 17% more. Adjusted mortality here: 105 deaths for every 100 expected. At birth, a girl in Guadeloupe can expect 84.7 years and a boy 78.1 (2025); across France, 85.9 and 80.3. The town has 2 family doctors.
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 · The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic.
14% are under 15, lower than compared French towns (17%). The share aged 15 to 24 is 7.8%. The middle age in Saint-Louis is 53.7.
52% women, 48% men
About 94 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.
| Saint-Louis | France median | |
|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 14% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 7.8% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 14% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 33% | 26% |
| 65+ | 30% | 22% |
| No diploma | 47% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 24% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 12% | 18% |
| Higher education | 12% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · France median: the median of compared communes (Guadeloupe has none of its own)
Violence against people averaged 7.1 per 1,000 residents a year over 2023–2025; graded property crimes averaged 9. The police record for Saint-Louis lists 33 offenses in 2025. More of the graded crimes in the town were criminal damage than anything else (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 family violence, sexual violence, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, 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, 60.4% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Bus, tram or train carried 4.6% of working residents in Saint-Louis to work at the census. At the census, 4.0% of working residents in Saint-Louis 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.
Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 17 homes in Saint-Louis.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Other places to visit in and near Saint-Louis. Best known first.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Saint-Louis yet.
Commune in Guadeloupe
Saint-Louis is a commune of 2,610 people in the Communauté de communes de Marie-Galante. 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Louis | 2,610 | — | — | — | — | D |
| Grand-Bourg | 4,617 | 4.9 | — | — | C+ | D |
| Capesterre-de-Marie-Galante | 3,123 | 7.8 | — | — | — | D |
| Capesterre-Belle-Eau | 17,684 | 17 | — | — | C | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Saint-Louis has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
Sources: INSEE, census 2023 (population, employment, commuting) · INSEE, Filosofi 2023 (income per consumption unit, poverty) · 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.