Capesterre-Belle-Eau vs Lamentin
Two municipalities in Guadeloupe, France, side by side on the five things this site grades — climate & hazards, local vitality, services, affordability and property market. Every figure comes from official open data, and the ones that cannot honestly be compared are marked rather than quietly averaged.
Capesterre-Belle-Eau
Lamentin
A provisional grade had at least one pillar filled with a neutral 50 rather than measured. Where one side is provisional and the other is not, the gap between the two grades may be partly made of that fill — treat the pillar rows below as the evidence, not the letters.
Pillar by pillar
| Pillar | Capesterre-Belle-Eau | Lamentin |
|---|---|---|
| Climate & hazards | not measured | not measured |
| Local vitality | 40/100 | 65/100 ▲ |
| Services & access | 35/100 | 41/100 ▲ |
| Affordability | 20/100 ▲ | 2/100 |
| Property market | 46/100 ▲ | 4/100 |
Pillar scores are percentile ranks within each municipality's own country, so a 70 in Spain and a 70 in Italy each mean "ahead of 70% of this country's towns" — not that the two places are alike.
The underlying figures
| Indicator | Capesterre-Belle-Eau | Lamentin |
|---|---|---|
| Population | 17,628 inhab. (2020) | 17,774 inhab. (2020) |
| Population trend (~10y) | -7.1% (2015→2020) declining — the key rural depopulation risk | +10.1% (2015→2020) growing / stable |
| Price (€/m²) | 2,341 €/m² ▲ 2020 data | 4,791 €/m² 2020 data |
| Price appreciation (~5y) | +10.3%/yr ▲ 2017→2023 | -4.9%/yr 2017→2023 |
| Gross rental yield | 6.5% ▲ est. from ANIL rent ÷ DVF price | 3.6% est. from ANIL rent ÷ DVF price |
| Tourism / short-let potential | 86.5 beds / 1,000 inhab. ▲ collective accommodation + second homes (INSEE bed equivalences) | 29 beds / 1,000 inhab. collective accommodation + second homes (INSEE bed equivalences) |
| Foreign residents | 8.67% (2021) ▲ | 4.49% (2021) |
| Everyday essentials | 0 of 4 in the municipality None mapped here | 0 of 4 in the municipality None mapped here |
| International airport | Gran Canaria (LPA) (4914.7 km) | Gran Canaria (LPA) (4910.4 km) ▲ |
Which way each is going
| Population momentum | Capesterre-Belle-Eau | Lamentin |
|---|---|---|
| Annualised change | -1.46 %/yr 2015–2020 | +1.94 %/yr 2015–2020 |
Demographic momentum is an absolute rate and feeds no grade of its own — see the momentum pages.
How to read this
Grades are computed from official open data — statistics offices, hazard catalogues, land registries and OpenStreetMap — never from reviews, listings or opinion. Each indicator is ranked against the other municipalities of the same country, except the natural hazards, which are absolute 30-year probabilities and therefore mean the same thing everywhere.
That is why some rows above carry no comparison. Spain counts registered tourist dwellings where Italy counts every tourist bed place; each statistics office defines a foreign resident differently; the property-price vintages run from 2018 in Italy to 2025 in Portugal. Putting two such numbers side by side and calling the difference a finding would be inventing one, so the row states the reason instead.
Full method, sources and known gaps: the methodology page.