Petit-Canal

Guadeloupe · CA du Nord Grande Terre · INSEE 97119

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink.

Served 70.4/100 · confidence: low· Better served than 97 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Petit-Canal (INSEE 97119) is in Guadeloupe (971), part of CA du Nord Grande Terre. Population 8,212 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Bourgs ruraux (level 5). ^[2]

Data vintages: INSEE BPE 2025 · INSEE SIRENE 2026-09 · INSEE census (RP) 2023 · INSEE COG 2026 · INSEE density grid 2026 · Commune website 2026-10-24.

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/97119-petit-canal

Vitality score

Vitality score 70.4/100 — Served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: low (sources disagree on Grocery (épicerie / supérette); sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 97 % of the 2,960 communes of a similar size.

Compare this with communes of a similar size. The score measures how well a place is served relative to its own size band, and larger communes score higher as a rule — so it reads meaningfully against another village, and misleadingly against a town.

Measured but not scored in this model: Market. See the methodology for why.

Component	Value (0–1)	Weight	Contribution
Daily food	0.78	25	19.44
Social	0.76	20	15.28
Education	0.63	10	6.32
Health	0.53	10	5.28
Public & culture	0.31	5	1.54
Population trend	0.75	10	7.46
Housing mix	0.9	5	4.48

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 4 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 2 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 2 of 3

Lodging 0 of 2

One square per service type, shaded by how many: none, one, a few, five or more. A blank square means none was counted — the sources do not distinguish “none here” from “not counted”.

A food shop, a school and somewhere to eat or drink. ^[3,4]

14 × Bakery (boulangerie) (LE FOURNIL CANALIEN · EURL FOURNIL NORD · FLEUR DE MAI - PORT LOUIS · PATISSERIE KYO · KROUSTI'PIZZA). ^[3,4]

2 × Butcher (boucherie) (BOUCHERIE BOKAZ · EIRL A KA LO). ^[3,4]

14 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (BRETER SATURNINE · 1ERE QUALITE · INSERTION CASH SERVICE · SODEX PETIT CANAL · EPI SHOP SERVICES). ^[3,4]

1 × Supermarket (SOGUADIAL LES MANGLES). ^[3,4]

38 × Restaurant (LA PETITE MAISON · LE MARMITO · GRILLO · PLAISIR GOURMAND). ^[3,4]

3 × Café / bar (TITOON BARTENDER). ^[4]

4 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE BOURG DE PETIT-CANAL · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE SAINTE GENEVIEVE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE FELICITE COLINE). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE MAXIMILIEN VRECORD). ^[3]

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (LEMY NASSO, MÉDECIN · MIRIJA RAKOTOARISON, MÉDECIN · THIBAUD DEJEANS, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

3 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE SAULO · PHARMACIE ROSE CAYENNE · PHARMACIE DES MANGLES). ^[3,4]

2 × Post office / agence postale (LA POSTE). ^[3]

1 × Library (MÉDIATHÈQUE GUY FROMAGER ANGLE DES RUES LOUIS DELGRES ET VICTOR SCHOELCHER). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (COMPLEXE SPORTIF CYRANO ARONDEL). ^[3]

10 × Hairdresser (PENA YANIRA · COLOGER PITIE MARC). ^[3,4]

4 × Fuel station (SOCIETE PETROLIERE DES MANGLES · PRODENERGIE · SODIGE CENTRE · STATION RAMBINAISING). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 4 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 10 × Restaurant.

Not found in the commune: Nursery school (maternelle). ^[3]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	14	LE FOURNIL CANALIEN · EURL FOURNIL NORD · FLEUR DE MAI - PORT LOUIS · PATISSERIE KYO · KROUSTI'PIZZA	INSEE BPE 14 / INSEE SIRENE 14 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	2	BOUCHERIE BOKAZ · EIRL A KA LO	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 1 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	14	BRETER SATURNINE · 1ERE QUALITE · INSERTION CASH SERVICE · SODEX PETIT CANAL · EPI SHOP SERVICES	INSEE BPE 14 / INSEE SIRENE 31 [3,4]
Supermarket	1	SOGUADIAL LES MANGLES	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Restaurant	38	LA PETITE MAISON · LE MARMITO · GRILLO · PLAISIR GOURMAND	INSEE BPE 38 / INSEE SIRENE 81 [3,4]
Café / bar	3	TITOON BARTENDER	INSEE SIRENE 3 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	4	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE PUBLIQUE BOURG DE PETIT-CANAL · ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE SAINTE GENEVIEVE · ECOLE PRIMAIRE FELICITE COLINE	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE MAXIMILIEN VRECORD	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	3	LEMY NASSO, MÉDECIN · MIRIJA RAKOTOARISON, MÉDECIN · THIBAUD DEJEANS, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 3 [3]
Pharmacy	3	PHARMACIE SAULO · PHARMACIE ROSE CAYENNE · PHARMACIE DES MANGLES	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 3 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	2	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Library	1	MÉDIATHÈQUE GUY FROMAGER ANGLE DES RUES LOUIS DELGRES ET VICTOR SCHOELCHER	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	COMPLEXE SPORTIF CYRANO ARONDEL	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Hairdresser	10	PENA YANIRA · COLOGER PITIE MARC	INSEE BPE 10 / INSEE SIRENE 13 [3,4]
Fuel station	4	SOCIETE PETROLIERE DES MANGLES · PRODENERGIE · SODIGE CENTRE · STATION RAMBINAISING	INSEE BPE 4 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Hotel	0		INSEE SIRENE 5 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Campsite	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]

Market and village life

Market day: unknown — nothing found in the datasets or on the commune website.

Trajectory

1968: 5,887 peak 2007: 8,243 2023: 8,212 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 8,005 (2012) → 8,212 (2023): 2.6 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 6,590 (1990) → 8,212 (2023): 24.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 4,542, of which 5.2 % second homes and 11.9 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Which way the everyday services lie

In the commune Bakery, Food shop, Primary school, GP, Pharmacy Straight-line, from the mairie, in the direction given. Services in the same town share a spoke. Distance is not travel time: a pass or an estuary can double it.

Bakery (Petit-Canal): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Petit-Canal): 0.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Petit-Canal): 0.4 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Petit-Canal): 0.2 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Petit-Canal): 0.1 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 200▸

Days at or below 0 °C 0▸

Muggy days a summer 90.7▸

Each track runs from the 5th to the 95th percentile of the 34,141 communes with that measurement; the tick is the median. A value beyond either end sits at the end and is marked ▸.

An average of 200 days a year at or above 30 °C and 0 days at or below 0 °C, over 24 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the PETIT-CANAL GODET-INRAE weather station, 3 km away at 35 m; the village itself is at 19 m. ^[9]

Muggy days — a dew point at or above 18 °C — average 91 days a summer. ^[9]

Humidity measured at PETIT-CANAL GODET-INRAE, 3 km away at 35 m, over 23 summers. ^[9]

An average of 1,286 mm of rain a year, spread over 173 days — about 7.4 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at PETIT-CANAL GODET-INRAE, 3 km away at 35 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Grocery (épicerie / supérette)

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 97119/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 97119/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 97119/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 97119/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 97119
Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024

Villages like this one

Matched on size, density, second homes and which everyday shops and services are present — not on the score, so a village of the same kind that is doing better or worse shows up rather than being hidden.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Les Avenières Veyrins-Thuellin	38	6,940 km NE	7,698	61.8	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 0 %
Theix-Noyalo	56	6,351 km NE	8,500	64.6	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 57 % · humidity 0 %
Pluvigner	56	6,329 km NE	7,682	64.4	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 0 % · winter 43 %
Le Poiré-sur-Vie	85	6,417 km NE	8,649	54.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 51 % · humidity 0 %
Chaumes-en-Retz	44	6,392 km NE	7,440	64.7	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 76 % · humidity 0 %
Guichen	35	6,422 km NE	9,412	74.6	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 59 % · humidity 0 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Pluvigner	56	6,329 km NE	7,682	64.4	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.summer 0 % · winter 43 %
Theix-Noyalo	56	6,351 km NE	8,500	64.6	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 57 % · humidity 0 %
Chaumes-en-Retz	44	6,392 km NE	7,440	64.7	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 76 % · humidity 0 %
Le Poiré-sur-Vie	85	6,417 km NE	8,649	54.2	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 51 % · humidity 0 %
Guichen	35	6,422 km NE	9,412	74.6	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 59 % · humidity 0 %
Les Avenières Veyrins-Thuellin	38	6,940 km NE	7,698	61.8	Served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 0 % · humidity 0 %

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…and in much the same climate

The same match on size and services, narrowed to communes whose summers, winters and summer humidity are all close to Petit-Canal's. All three are required, so this section is absent for the 11.8 % of communes with no humidity station near enough to measure: two temperature axes alone cannot tell a muggy coast from a dry one.

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Bouillante	971	41 km SW	6,127	58	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 90 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
La Trinité	972	191 km S	11,454	58.1	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 87 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %
Morne-à-l'Eau	971	6.3 km SE	16,228	62.8	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Port-Louis	971	6.2 km NW	5,607	50.3	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 100 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Ducos	972	208 km S	18,105	65.6	Served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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