Pointe-Noire

Guadeloupe · CA du Nord Basse-Terre · INSEE 97121

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

Partly served 57.7/100 · confidence: medium· Better served than 69 % of the {n|commune|communes} of a similar size.

Identity

Pointe-Noire (INSEE 97121) is in Guadeloupe (971), part of CA du Nord Basse-Terre. Population 5,762 (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/97121-pointe-noire

Vitality score

Vitality score 57.7/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Restaurant).

Better served than 69 % of the 4,090 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	0.53	25	13.15
Social	0.82	20	16.31
Education	0.78	10	7.77
Health	0.51	10	5.13
Public & culture	0.22	5	1.11
Population trend	0.26	10	2.64
Housing mix	0.59	5	2.97

Services

What is here, at a glance

Food 2 of 6

Eating out 1 of 1

Cafés and bars 1 of 1

Schools 3 of 3

Health 2 of 4

Public services 1 of 1

Culture 1 of 2

Sport 1 of 2

Everyday services 3 of 3

Lodging 1 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]

5 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BOULANGERIE DE LA RE BERDIERE · AUX PLAISIRS DU GOUT · L'ABRI-COTE · MAISON CERES · ATL DISTRIBUTION). ^[3,4]

8 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (SODEX DE LA REBERDIERE · GUIRLAIN AND CO · GAUTIER MARIE-CHANTAL · ESPACE CORAINA). ^[3,4]

28 × Restaurant (CHEZ MARILOU · AN BA REZIN LA · LE NATUREL · SEXTIUS MARCELLE). ^[3,4]

4 × Café / bar (CHEZ LAINCO · F.D.A-BAR-RESTO). ^[4]

2 × Nursery school (maternelle) (ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE BAILLARGENT · ECOLE MATERNELLE BELLEVUE ROSALIE). ^[3]

6 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE ANNEROSE MAURICE · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE BAILLARGENT · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE TIMOLEON BERBAIN · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE GUYONNEAU · ECOLE PRIMAIRE RENAUD DAVID). ^[3]

1 × Collège (COLLEGE COURBARIL). ^[3]

4 × GP (médecin généraliste) (RAYMOND FUCHS, MÉDECIN · ANNE HELLER, MÉDECIN · FRED SOUPRAYEN, MÉDECIN · SAMUEL LINIERE, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

2 × Pharmacy (PHARMACIE PIQUION WYCKMANS · PHARMACIE PONT). ^[3,4]

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

1 × Library (BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE ANCELOT BELLAIRE). ^[3]

1 × Gym / sports hall (GYMNASE DU LYCEE POLYVALENT). ^[3]

2 × Bank (CAISSE REGIONALE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL · AGENCE POINTE NOIRE). ^[3]

9 × Hairdresser (NICOLE COIFFURE · COIFFURE ESTHETIQUE PLUS · NATHALIE COIFFURE). ^[3,4]

3 × Fuel station (STATION SERVICE BELO · TOP CARBUR · COLABEL). ^[3,4]

1 × Hotel (LA POINTE D'ARGENT). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 5 × Bakery (boulangerie), 2 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette), 4 × Restaurant, 3 × Hairdresser.

Not found in the commune: Butcher (boucherie), Supermarket. ^[3,4]

All 25 service types, with per-source counts

Type	Count	Names	Sources
Bakery (boulangerie)	5	BOULANGERIE DE LA RE BERDIERE · AUX PLAISIRS DU GOUT · L'ABRI-COTE · MAISON CERES · ATL DISTRIBUTION	INSEE BPE 5 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Butcher (boucherie)	0		INSEE BPE 0 / INSEE SIRENE 0 [3,4]
Grocery (épicerie / supérette)	8	SODEX DE LA REBERDIERE · GUIRLAIN AND CO · GAUTIER MARIE-CHANTAL · ESPACE CORAINA	INSEE BPE 8 / INSEE SIRENE 15 [3,4]
Supermarket	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Cheese shop (fromagerie)	0		INSEE SIRENE 0 [4]
Fishmonger	0		INSEE SIRENE 1 / INSEE BPE 0 [4]
Restaurant	28	CHEZ MARILOU · AN BA REZIN LA · LE NATUREL · SEXTIUS MARCELLE	INSEE BPE 28 / INSEE SIRENE 65 [3,4]
Café / bar	4	CHEZ LAINCO · F.D.A-BAR-RESTO	INSEE SIRENE 4 [4]
Nursery school (maternelle)	2	ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE BAILLARGENT · ECOLE MATERNELLE BELLEVUE ROSALIE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Primary school (élémentaire)	6	ECOLE PRIMAIRE ANNEROSE MAURICE · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE BAILLARGENT · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE TIMOLEON BERBAIN · ECOLE ELEMENTAIRE GUYONNEAU · ECOLE PRIMAIRE RENAUD DAVID	INSEE BPE 6 [3]
Collège	1	COLLEGE COURBARIL	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
GP (médecin généraliste)	4	RAYMOND FUCHS, MÉDECIN · ANNE HELLER, MÉDECIN · FRED SOUPRAYEN, MÉDECIN · SAMUEL LINIERE, MÉDECIN	INSEE BPE 4 [3]
Pharmacy	2	PHARMACIE PIQUION WYCKMANS · PHARMACIE PONT	INSEE BPE 2 / INSEE SIRENE 2 [3,4]
Nurse	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Dentist	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Post office / agence postale	1	LA POSTE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Library	1	BIBLIOTHEQUE MUNICIPALE ANCELOT BELLAIRE	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Cinema	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Gym / sports hall	1	GYMNASE DU LYCEE POLYVALENT	INSEE BPE 1 [3]
Swimming pool	0		INSEE BPE 0 [3]
Bank	2	CAISSE REGIONALE CREDIT AGRICOLE MUTUEL · AGENCE POINTE NOIRE	INSEE BPE 2 [3]
Hairdresser	9	NICOLE COIFFURE · COIFFURE ESTHETIQUE PLUS · NATHALIE COIFFURE	INSEE BPE 9 / INSEE SIRENE 9 [3,4]
Fuel station	3	STATION SERVICE BELO · TOP CARBUR · COLABEL	INSEE BPE 3 / INSEE SIRENE 5 [3,4]
Hotel	1	LA POINTE D'ARGENT	INSEE BPE 1 / INSEE SIRENE 12 [3,4]
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: 8,114 2023: 5,762 axis from zero, so the slope compares with any other commune

Population 6,785 (2012) → 5,762 (2023): -15.1 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 7,537 (1990) → 5,762 (2023): -23.6 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 4,172, of which 20.3 % second homes and 12.8 % 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 (Pointe-Noire): 0.3 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Pointe-Noire): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Pointe-Noire): 0.1 km to the south-east (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Pointe-Noire): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Pointe-Noire): 0.3 km to the north-east (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

Where this sits nationally

Days at or above 30 °C 255.7▸

Days at or below 0 °C 0▸

Muggy days a summer 90.8▸

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 256 days a year at or above 30 °C and 0 days at or below 0 °C, over 12 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the POINTE-NOIRE BELLEVUE weather station, 1.5 km away at 213 m; the village itself is at 9 m. ^[9]

The village sits 204 m below the station, so each day's reading was shifted by 7.71 °C per km of altitude before the days were counted. Expect the result to be within about 0.68 °C. ^[9]

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

Humidity measured at PETIT-BOURG DUCLOS-INRAE, 14.1 km away at 110 m, over 25 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 101 m above the village, so each day's humidity was shifted by 3.97 °C per km before the muggy days were counted. ^[9]

An average of 1,400 mm of rain a year, spread over 152 days — about 9.2 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at POINTE-NOIRE GENDARMERIE, 0.5 km away at 43 m. Rainfall is not adjusted for altitude: unlike temperature it has no simple gradient to correct by. ^[9]

Uncertainties

sources disagree on Restaurant

References

INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 97121/2023
INSEE density grid 2026
INSEE BPE 2025
INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 97121/2012
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 97121/1990
INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 97121/logement/2023
INSEE BPE 2025 — 97121
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
Florensac	34	6,788 km NE	5,254	49.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 69 % · humidity 0 %
Port-Louis	971	34 km NE	5,607	50.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Noves	13	6,908 km NE	6,080	55.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 55 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Philippe	974	13,458 km E	5,082	62.3	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 0 % · winter 100 %
Saint-Georges	973	1,754 km SE	4,915	49.7	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Gallargues-le-Montueux	30	6,848 km NE	3,659	46	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 65 % · humidity 0 %

Order by distance instead

Commune	Dept	Distance	Population	Score	Band	Climate vs here
Port-Louis	971	34 km NE	5,607	50.3	Partly served	Cooler summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 0 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Saint-Georges	973	1,754 km SE	4,915	49.7	Partly served	Warmer summers, similar winters.Summers feel about as humid.summer 28 % · winter 100 % · humidity 100 %
Florensac	34	6,788 km NE	5,254	49.3	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 69 % · humidity 0 %
Gallargues-le-Montueux	30	6,848 km NE	3,659	46	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 65 % · humidity 0 %
Noves	13	6,908 km NE	6,080	55.7	Partly served	Cooler summers and colder winters.Summers feel drier.summer 0 % · winter 55 % · humidity 0 %
Saint-Philippe	974	13,458 km E	5,082	62.3	Served	Cooler summers, similar winters.summer 0 % · winter 100 %

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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 Pointe-Noire'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
Deshaies	971	8.3 km N	3,710	52.7	Partly served	Much the same temperatures.Summers feel about as humid.summer 95 % · winter 100 % · humidity 93 %

Elsewhere

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