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NXS-GRX-JAM · Caribbean · Regions

Saint James

First-level unit, Jamaica: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Map All 14 first-level units
Page GRX-JAM-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO JAM / JMStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
161,686
people (GHSL 2025)
605 km²
area
6.4%
of Jamaica
74
units inside

01Kaart

Inside Saint James

The 74 ADM2 units of Saint James.

FIG 1 · 74 units inside Saint James
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

Mense · GHSL 2025

161,686

6.4% of Jamaica.

Mense · WorldPop 2025

175,636

+9% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

605 km²

267 people per km².

Code

JM-08

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Laagliggende kussone

6,438

people on land at or below 10 m, 4.0% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Saint James in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Population · 2011-12-31

516,218

people. OCHA Latin America and the Caribbean (ROLAC) · Creative Commons Attribution for Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY-IGO).

Poverty headcount · 2018-12-31

2.9%

of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).

04Units

74 units inside Saint James

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 · Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0.

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Adelphi – 1,231 2,227 14.93 82 0.5% 0
Albion – 3,460 3,161 1.84 1,880 1.3% 0
Amity – 585 585 7.43 79 0.2% 0
Anchovy – 5,660 8,127 12.22 463 2.2% 0
Arcadia – 2 3 4.82 0 0% 0
Barrett Town – 1,776 1,032 3.2 555 0.7% 0
Bickersteth – 563 739 5.43 104 0.2% 0
Bogue – 13,613 19,548 16.9 806 5.2% 587
Brandon Hill – 1,015 928 0.54 1,880 0.4% 0
Cambridge – 274 635 14.64 19 0.1% 0
Canterbury – 226 206 0.12 1,883 0.1% 0
Catadupa – 2,318 2,318 20.63 112 0.9% 0
Catherine Hall – 395 361 0.21 1,881 0.2% 0
Catherine Mount – 5,274 5,041 3.36 1,570 2% 0
Comfort Hall – 1,802 2,587 3.89 463 0.7% 0
Coral Gardens – 3,358 3,209 6.05 555 1.3% 0
Cornwall – 216 297 4.33 50 0.1% 0
Down Town Montego Bay – 55,257 50,483 3.19 17,322 21.3% 5,851
Dumfries – 679 1,227 8.23 83 0.3% 0
Fairfield – 3,611 3,299 1.92 1,881 1.4% 0
Farm Heights – 879 840 0.56 1,570 0.3% 0
Flagstaff – 104 121 9.99 10 0% 0
Flamstead – 694 726 9.65 72 0.3% 0
Flankers – 392 272 3.96 99 0.2% 0
Flower Hill – 1,463 2,018 17.82 82 0.6% 0
Friendship – 690 755 1.63 423 0.3% 0
Garlands – 15 19 21.94 1 0% 0
Glendevon – 4,473 4,276 2.85 1,569 1.7% 0
Goodwill – 3,187 5,022 13.45 237 1.2% 0
Granville – 465 509 1.1 423 0.2% 0
Green Pond – 46,122 44,085 0.34 135,653 17.8% 0
Greenwood – 1,014 1,598 9.35 108 0.4% 0
Hopeton – 12,435 13,613 20.97 593 4.8% 0
Ironshore – 4,179 3,995 7.53 555 1.6% 0
Irwin – 2,810 2,686 1.79 1,570 1.1% 0
John’s Hall – 7,099 7,772 16.78 423 2.7% 0
Lilliput – 4,468 2,596 8.05 555 1.7% 0
Lottery – 1,759 3,492 19.41 91 0.7% 0
Maldon – 303 317 4.21 72 0.1% 0
Maroon Town – 41 48 3.94 10 0% 0
Mocho – 214 224 7.84 27 0.1% 0
Montego Hill – 1,570 1,500 1 1,570 0.6% 0
Montpelier – 3,046 4,003 10.13 301 1.2% 0
Mount Carey – 1,099 1,445 10.61 104 0.4% 0
Mount Horeb – 2,663 3,700 36.33 73 1% 0
Mount Salem – 3,836 3,505 2.04 1,880 1.5% 0
Niagara – 802 840 6.68 120 0.3% 0
Norwood – 4,301 4,111 2.74 1,570 1.7% 0
Orange – 779 1,074 15.64 50 0.3% 0
Paradise – 3,517 3,213 1.87 1,881 1.4% 0
Pitfour – 774 848 1.83 423 0.3% 0
Porto Bello – 5,086 4,861 3.24 1,570 2% 0
Reading – 1,311 1,882 2.83 463 0.5% 0
Retirement – 1,350 1,477 3.19 423 0.5% 0
Retrieve – 84 96 0.56 150 0% 0
Roehampton – 1,402 1,842 13.53 104 0.5% 0
Rose Hall – 824 1,035 8.71 95 0.3% 0
Rose Heights – 1,601 1,530 1.02 1,570 0.6% 0
Rose Mount Garden – 1,978 1,890 1.26 1,570 0.8% 0
Rosemount – 2,198 2,100 1.4 1,570 0.8% 0
Salt Spring – 8,947 8,552 5.7 1,570 3.4% 0
Seven Rivers – 930 2,017 12.35 75 0.4% 0
Somerton – 2,424 4,383 19.12 127 0.9% 0
Spot Valley – 1,043 1,644 9.62 108 0.4% 0
Stonehenge – 2,215 2,427 28.25 78 0.9% 0
Summer Hill – 307 356 15.27 20 0.1% 0
Sunderland – 904 1,136 11.47 79 0.3% 0
Tangle River – 2,115 2,214 15.62 135 0.8% 0
Tower Hill/Moy Hall – 287 345 2.11 136 0.1% 0
Tucker – 326 357 0.77 423 0.1% 0
Unity Hall – 4,002 4,800 10.78 371 1.5% 0
Vaughnsfield – 633 1,110 18.61 34 0.2% 0
Welcome Hall – 2,317 2,911 9.61 241 0.9% 0
West Green – 658 601 0.35 1,880 0.3% 0
05Exposure

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
None at this resolution
Hawens
None at this resolution
Lughawens
None at this resolution
Major roads
None at this resolution
Spoorweë
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06Risiko

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Saint James publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Jamaica.
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07Neighbours

Neighbouring units

08Bronne

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen JAM ADM1, source: OpenStreetMap, Wambacher © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2011. Offered under the same licence (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen JAM ADM2, source: Justin Meyers, Planning Office of Jamaica © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2017. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM3 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen JAM ADM3, source: Justin Meyers, Planning Office of Jamaica © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2017. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Lande
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.

Status

The methodology, structure and definitions of The Global Risks Index are a preparatory working draft (2026), circulated for review and comment and not for implementation. No value appears until an edition is released from a governed evidence cut; values then carry intervals, classes, sources and their correction pathway. Simulators run the published methods on numbers you choose and never show a NXS-GRX value.

A country profile reads public evidence about a place. It is not a statement by or about the policy of any government, takes no position on the status of any territory, and does not imply a national programme or participation. Names follow UN M49.

Wat NXS-GRX nie is nie

NXS-GRX is navorsings- en risiko-analise-inligting. Dit is nie 'n krediet- of ESG-gradering nie en gebruik geen graderingskaal nie, nie 'n maatstaf vir finansiële instrumente nie, nie amptelike statistiek nie, nie 'n noodwaarskuwing of amptelike klassifikasie nie, en nie advies nie. Dit mag nie gebruik word om natuurlike persone te evalueer nie. Risikoklasse is bande op 'n gepubliseerde skaal, nooit ranglyste van lande of mense nie.

Pulse-seine en vooruitskouwaarskynlikhede is inligting vir hersiening deur bevoegde owerhede, nooit openbare waarskuwings nie; amptelike waarskuwings kom slegs van gemandateerde owerhede.

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Avis en français

La méthodologie et les définitions du NXS-GRX sont un projet de travail préparatoire (2026). Le NXS-GRX est une information de recherche et d’analyse des risques : ni notation, ni indice de référence financier, ni statistique officielle, ni alerte, ni conseil. Les classes de risque sont des bandes sur une échelle publiée, non des classements.