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1,746 residents make their home in this town in Martinique.
Where it does best is walkability — 30% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 16% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Jobs and pay trail most towns (C−): 0.9 jobs per working resident; 17.2% unemployment. Health is weaker too: after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 3% below expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025). Bellefontaine has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
Each subject compares Bellefontaine 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.
Bellefontaine has subject grades but no overall grade: French towns get one from 2,500 residents.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Bellefontaine as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is église paroissiale Notre-Dame de l'Assomption et Saint-Joseph, in Case-Pilote, 2 mi away.
1.2% of its homes were built before 1919, against 7.4% in the median compared French town.
Explore the history →Nothing in Bellefontaine 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 Bellefontaine.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
Ages and care homes taken into account, deaths in Bellefontaine come to 97 per 100 predicted. From 2016 to 2025, 154 residents of Bellefontaine died, against 159 expected from France’s death rates at each age: 3% fewer. The nearest emergency department to Bellefontaine is Chum de Martinique, 8.1 mi away. For a family doctor, residents of Bellefontaine have one GP on hand.
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 step is TownRatings’ own calculation, not an official number. A less sure grade: it could be anywhere from D to B.
People 65 and over make up 20% of the town. Ages in Bellefontaine split evenly at 46.8: half are older, half younger. Children under 15 make up 17%, close to compared French towns (17%).
54% women, 46% men
About 84 men for every 100 women. Median share of women: France 51.8%.
| Bellefontaine | France median | |
|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 17% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 13% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 19% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 32% | 26% |
| 65+ | 20% | 22% |
| No diploma | 29% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 23% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 18% | 18% |
| Higher education | 24% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · France median: the median of compared communes (Martinique has none of its own)
16.3% of commuters walked, cycled or took the bus or train at the census, higher than compared French towns (13.4%).
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
In all, 30 offenses reached the police record in Bellefontaine in 2025. Violence against people ran at 14 per 1,000 residents a year and the graded property crimes at 10.9 (2023–2025 average). The graded crime recorded most here was other physical violence (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 sexual violence, armed robbery, 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, 47.2% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
At the vocational lycée within 5 km, 92% of 76 candidates passed the bac pro. Near Bellefontaine, 94.3% of lycée candidates passed the bac, higher than compared French towns (92.9%). The closest collège is 3.6 mi off.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lycée polyvalent du Nord CaraïbeNearest lycéeGeneral lycée | General lycée | 65 | 97%+6 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
Between July 2023 and June 2026, buyers took 10 homes in Bellefontaine.
Source: Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Wikidata has nobody with a French article born in Bellefontaine yet.
Commune in Martinique
Bellefontaine is a commune of 1,746 people in the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Nord Martinique. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bellefontaine | 1,746 | — | — | — | — | C |
| Case-Pilote | 4,537 | 2 | — | — | A− | C− |
| Le Carbet | 3,721 | 2.8 | — | — | C | B+ |
| Schœlcher | 19,478 | 4.9 | — | — | C+ | C |
| Saint-Pierre | 3,961 | 5.9 | — | — | D | C− |
| Fort-de-France | 75,506 | 7 | — | — | D | D |
| Le Morne-Rouge | 4,388 | 7.5 | — | — | C+ | C− |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Bellefontaine 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.