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A town of 10,306 in French Guiana.
Apatou has no overall grade because cost of living, schools and walkability aren’t graded here. Its weakest subject is jobs & income (C−): 1 job per working resident; 76.5% unemployment. Its strongest is safety (A+): an average of 5.9 recorded violent incidents and 1.8 recorded burglaries, vehicle thefts, thefts from vehicles and acts of criminal damage per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The one thing Apatou does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Apatou 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.
Apatou has no overall grade because cost of living, schools and walkability aren’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Apatou as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
0.3% 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 Apatou.
No compared town in French Guiana has less graded crime per resident than Apatou: it ranks first of 13. Police and gendarmerie recorded 71 offenses in the graded categories in Apatou in 2025. For armed robbery, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles, this figure isn’t published when it’s small (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the index uses the département’s average instead, 9.9% of the index here.
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
22% of residents are 15 to 24 and 2.4% are 65 or over, against 11% and 22% in the median compared French town. 4.4% of adults who have left education hold a higher-education diploma (France 30%).
53% women, 47% men
About 88 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: France 51.8%.
| Apatou | France median | |
|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 44% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 22% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 23% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 9.5% | 26% |
| 65+ | 2.4% | 22% |
| No diploma | 70% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 15% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 5.8% | 18% |
| Higher education | 4.4% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · France median: the median of compared communes (French Guiana has none of its own)
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
One GP practises in Apatou. The care-home adjustment is a TownRatings modeling step, not an official statistic. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from C− to B+.
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
32.5% of Apatou’s working residents walked, cycled or took public transport to work in the 2023 census, against 13% for the median of compared French towns; 52% drove.
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.
Too few homes sold here for a reliable median price.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Nothing in Apatou is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Apatou yet.
It grades A+ for safety, #1 of 13 in French Guiana.
Commune in French Guiana
Apatou is a commune of 10,306 people in the Communauté de communes de l'Ouest Guyanais. 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) · 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 October 30, 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.