Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
2,948 residents make their home in this town in Martinique.
Le Marigot’s strongest is walkability (B): 57% of residents live within 800 m of a bakery, and 15% of working residents walk, cycle or take public transport to work. Health lags (D−): after allowing for care homes, deaths from 2016 to 2025 were 16% above expected, against 12% below for the median of compared French towns. It lags on schools as well (C) — brevet results 2.7 points above the expected rate.
Figures: amenities, INSEE BPE 2025 · commuting and employment, INSEE census 2023 · deaths, INSEE (by commune of residence, 2016–2025) · brevet and bac results, Ministry of Education. Le Marigot has no overall grade because cost of living and safety aren’t graded here.
Hazard risk isn’t graded in France yet: national flood maps cover only some areas.
The 2 things Le Marigot does most differently from other towns.
Each subject compares Le Marigot 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.
Le Marigot has no overall grade because cost of living and safety aren’t graded here.
How TownRatings grades French towns →
The Culture ministry lists no building in Le Marigot as a monument historique. That’s true of 25% of compared French towns too.
The nearest classé monument is Habitation Pecoul, in Basse-Pointe, 5.5 mi away.
1.1% 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 Le Marigot.
Care access and life expectancy are shown for context, not graded.
The nearest emergency department to Le Marigot is Chu de Martinique site de Trinite, 7 mi away. France’s death rates at each age would predict 360 deaths locally from 2016 to 2025; there were 419, 16% more. Life expectancy at birth in Martinique is 85.1 years for women and 77.5 for men (2025), against 85.9 and 80.3 across France. The town has one family doctor.
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 · TownRatings makes the care-home adjustment itself; it is a model, not an official statistic.
Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
By results, schools here place #23 of 25 in Martinique. No general lycée lies within 5 km; the nearest is 3.4 mi away. A collège lies 2 mi away.
| School | Level | Candidates | Passed, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collège Hubert NeroNearest collègeCollège | Collège | 60 | 75%+1 pt |
| Collège Emmanuel SaldèsBest against expectations: 5 points above the expected rateCollège | Collège | 44 | 80%+5 pts |
Ministry of Education (DEPP) · brevet and bac 2025, value added (IVAC, IVAL) · Licence Ouverte
Degrees are held by 14% of adults, lower than compared French towns (30%). Retirement age and beyond: 28% of residents are 65 or older. The share aged 15 to 24 is 9.2%.
53% women, 47% men
About 88 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.
| Le Marigot | France median | |
|---|---|---|
| Under 15 | 12% | 17% |
| 15–24 | 9.2% | 11% |
| 25–44 | 13% | 23% |
| 45–64 | 37% | 26% |
| 65+ | 28% | 22% |
| No diploma | 41% | 19% |
| CAP or BEP | 23% | 26% |
| Baccalauréat | 14% | 18% |
| Higher education | 14% | 30% |
INSEE, census 2023 · France median: the median of compared communes (Martinique has none of its own)
2.4% of Le Marigot’s working residents had no journey to work at the census.
Source: INSEE, census 2023 (commuting, employment, jobs at place of work); INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Each year (2023–2025 average), violence against people came to 6.5 per 1,000 residents and the graded property crimes to 6.2. 2025 saw 26 offenses recorded in Le Marigot. Of the graded crimes here, family violence came up most often (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 · Small counts of sexual violence, armed robbery, burglary, vehicle theft and theft from vehicles go unpublished (five or fewer in at least one of the last three years); the département’s average stands in, 67.3% of the index here. The count covers the offense categories the Safety Grade uses.
Rents are the ministry’s estimates of advertised rents, not rents actually paid.
The median price, €1,688/m², comes from 30 sales of houses and apartments in Le Marigot from July 2023 to June 2026. From July 2023 to June 2026, 30 homes were sold locally. Of the homes sold, 87% were houses.
Source: DGFiP, DVF property sales (Etalab geolocated); Housing Ministry, Carte des loyers 2025; INSEE, Filosofi 2023 · Licence Ouverte
Other places to visit and museums in and near Le Marigot. Best known first.
Nothing in Le Marigot is on the monuments historiques list. These are the nearest classé monuments, within 15.5 mi.
2 notable people were born in Le Marigot.
Jean-Michel Bridier: Mickael Denet, CC BY-SA 3.0
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Le Marigot | 2,948 | — | — | — | — | D− |
| Le Lorrain | 6,566 | 2.4 | — | — | B− | C− |
| Sainte-Marie | 14,756 | 3.6 | — | — | C+ | D |
| Basse-Pointe | 2,852 | 6.8 | — | — | — | D− |
| La Trinité | 11,454 | 7.4 | — | — | C | B |
| Le Morne-Rouge | 4,388 | 7.4 | — | — | C+ | C− |
| Gros-Morne | 9,610 | 7.7 | — | — | B | C+ |
People: INSEE, census 2023. Miles: center to center.
Le Marigot has no Safety Grade: over a quarter of its index would rest on the département’s average.
They grade C, better than 28% of compared French towns and #23 of 25 in Martinique. Primary schools aren’t graded: France doesn’t publish their results by school.
Commune in Martinique
Le Marigot is a commune of 2,948 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
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.