Terre-de-Bas

Identity

Terre-de-Bas (INSEE 97130) is in Guadeloupe (971), part of CA Grand Sud Caraïbe. Population 873 (2023). ^[1]

INSEE density class: Rural à habitat dispersé (level 6). ^[2]

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

Permanent link: https://vivantrural.com/en/fr/97130-terre-de-bas

Vitality score

Vitality score 58.5/100 — Partly served (model fr-v0.2).

Confidence: medium (sources disagree on Grocery (épicerie / supérette)).

Better served than 96 % of the 15,146 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.

Services

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

1 × Bakery (boulangerie) (BELENUS JOANA). ^[3,4]

5 × Grocery (épicerie / supérette) (SUPERETTE TROPIC DES ILES · EPICERIE LA SAINTOISE · BRUDEY MARKET SERVICES). ^[3,4]

1 × Fishmonger (JESS - FISH). ^[3,4]

9 × Restaurant (FOY GAETANE · LES MURIERS · AU PETIT GRILL · MAJORES · CARAIBES FOODING). ^[3,4]

1 × Café / bar. ^[4]

1 × Primary school (élémentaire) (ECOLE PRIMAIRE PUBLIQUE). ^[3]

3 × GP (médecin généraliste) (ALBERT DORVILLE, MÉDECIN · MATHIEU LEVY-LOEB, MÉDECIN · JEAN-CLAUDE GBENOU, MÉDECIN). ^[3]

1 × Pharmacy (MONSIEUR COLOMBANI LOUIS JACQUES). ^[3]

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

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

1 × Hotel (RESIDENCE SOLEIL D'EMERY). ^[3,4]

Not counted, because the business register records them as closed: 3 × Restaurant.

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

Market and village life

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

Trajectory

Population 1,109 (2012) → 873 (2023): -21.3 % over 10 years. ^[5,1]

Population 1,509 (1990) → 873 (2023): -42.1 % over 30 years. ^[6,1]

Dwellings (2023): 697, of which 33.1 % second homes and 3 % vacant. ^[7]

Access and surroundings

Bakery (Terre-de-Bas): 2 km to the east (straight line). ^[8]

Food shop (Terre-de-Bas): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

GP (Terre-de-Bas): 0.3 km to the south-west (straight line). ^[8]

Pharmacy (Terre-de-Bas): 0.2 km to the west (straight line). ^[8]

Primary school (Terre-de-Bas): 0.1 km to the north (straight line). ^[8]

Climate

An average of 183 days a year at or above 30 °C and 0 days at or below 0 °C, over 11 complete years in 1995–2024. ^[9]

Measured at the GOURBEYRE GROS-MORNE DOLE weather station, 17.4 km away at 477 m; the village itself is at 36 m. ^[9]

The village sits 441 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 BASSE-TERRE CONSEIL REGIONAL, 18.1 km away at 125 m, over 12 summers. ^[9]

That station sits 89 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 1,282 mm of rain a year, spread over 143 days — about 9 mm on a day it rains. ^[9]

Rainfall measured at TERRE-DE-HAUT CASSIN, 6.2 km away at 6 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)

References

1. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 97130/2023
2. INSEE density grid 2026
3. INSEE BPE 2025
4. INSEE SIRENE 2026-09
5. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 97130/2012
6. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 97130/1990
7. INSEE census (RP) 2023 — 97130/logement/2023
8. INSEE BPE 2025 — 97130
9. Météo-France daily climatology 1995-2024