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Saint Catherine

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
549,342
people (GHSL 2025)
1,206 km²
area
21.8%
of Jamaica
52
units inside

01Imephu

Inside Saint Catherine

The 52 ADM2 units of Saint Catherine.

FIG 1 · 52 units inside Saint Catherine
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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.

Abantu · GHSL 2025

549,342

21.8% of Jamaica.

Abantu · WorldPop 2025

548,208

0% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

1,206 km²

456 people per km².

Code

JM-14

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

Indawo esogwini ephansi

87,562

people on land at or below 10 m, 15.9% of the unit (GEBCO 2024 and GHSL 2025).

03Humanitarian data

Saint Catherine 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

573,369

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

Poverty headcount · 2018-12-31

3%

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

04Units

52 units inside Saint Catherine

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
Above Rocks – 5,266 13,034 9.56 551 0.7% 0
Bartons – 3,053 3,344 9.5 321 0.4% 0
Bellas Gate – 815 893 7.87 104 0.1% 0
Bogwalk – 5,232 7,029 69.48 75 0.7% 0
Braeton – 1,833 3,457 8.55 214 0.3% 0
Bridgeport – 4,389 6,299 1.42 3,091 0.6% 0
Browns Hill – 4,197 4,392 31.68 132 0.6% 0
Caymanas – 38,596 21,448 44.68 864 5.3% 12,356
Central Village – 10,966 6,094 8.37 1,310 1.5% 0
Crescent – 83,187 69,438 3.37 24,685 11.4% 0
Cromarty – 60,655 55,416 31.03 1,955 8.3% 0
Cumberland – 3,245 4,657 1.05 3,090 0.4% 0
Edgewater – 11,776 16,900 3.81 3,091 1.6% 0
Ensom – 13,921 11,620 4.93 2,824 1.9% 0
Ewarton – 16,005 13,424 81.09 197 2.2% 0
Freetown – 801 487 0.51 1,571 0.1% 0
Ginger Ridge – 2,661 2,916 12.54 212 0.4% 0
Glengoffe – 1,432 1,881 13.2 108 0.2% 0
Golden Acres – 6,523 5,445 2.31 2,824 0.9% 0
Greater Portmore – 10,904 12,487 6.64 1,642 1.5% 0
Greendale – 10,646 8,886 3.77 2,824 1.5% 0
Gregory Park – 12,950 18,586 4.19 3,091 1.8% 0
Hampton Green – 3,643 3,041 1.29 2,824 0.5% 0
Harewood – 1,683 1,845 12.71 132 0.2% 0
Harkers Hall – 1,932 2,428 29.77 65 0.3% 0
Hellshire – 30,185 44,494 145.62 207 4.1% 7,726
Independence City – 91,077 130,712 1.02 89,291 12.5% 56,432
Keystone – 5,306 2,949 4.05 1,310 0.7% 0
Kitson Town – 21,849 20,692 86.21 253 3% 0
Linstead – 35,998 34,715 105.36 342 4.9% 0
Lluidas Vale – 2,137 2,325 58.85 36 0.3% 0
Naggo Head – 6,150 8,827 1.99 3,090 0.8% 0
Old Harbour – 83,842 54,854 119.34 703 11.5% 15,676
Old Harbour Bay – 3,943 2,873 6.79 581 0.5% 0
Old Harbour Road – 4,805 6,150 38.65 124 0.7% 454
Part of Guys Hill – 2,659 3,658 25.68 104 0.4% 0
Part of Keystone – 21,828 18,220 7.73 2,824 3% 0
Part of Rock Hall – 610 1,379 3.41 179 0.1% 0
Passage Fort – 2,874 4,125 0.93 3,090 0.4% 0
Pear Tree Grove – 786 861 8.7 90 0.1% 0
Point Hill – 2,429 2,786 28.67 85 0.3% 0
Redwood – 3,191 4,193 19.09 167 0.4% 0
Riversdale – 2,914 3,341 20.33 143 0.4% 0
Sligoville – 2,661 3,194 42.14 63 0.4% 0
Spanish Town Central – 48,392 55,416 24.79 1,952 6.6% 3,036
St. John’s East – 6,890 5,751 2.44 2,824 0.9% 0
St. John’s West – 6,822 6,232 12.86 530 0.9% 0
Troja – 1,000 1,096 11.07 90 0.1% 0
Waterford – 17,493 25,106 5.66 3,091 2.4% 0
Watermount – 524 601 6.35 83 0.1% 0
West Cumberland – 1,422 2,040 0.46 3,091 0.2% 0
Willowdene – 6,504 5,942 3.16 2,058 0.9% 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
Amachweba
None at this resolution
Izikhumulo zezindiza
None at this resolution
Major roads
None at this resolution
Ojantshi
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06Ubungozi

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Saint Catherine 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

08Imithombo

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.
Amazwe
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.

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