L’Escalier has a population of 7,899, making it the 37th largest place we list in Mauritius. It is in Grand Port.
L’Escalier holds 0.62% of Mauritius's 1,265,059 people. Port Louis, the largest place we list there, is 20 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 8,408, a fall of 6%.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Poste de Flacq | Flacq | 8,659 |
| Port Mathurin | Rodrigues | 8,350 |
| Plaine des Papayes | Pamplemousses | 7,925 |
| Grand Bois | Savanne | 7,804 |
| Long Mountain | Pamplemousses | 7,775 |
| Grand Gaube | Rivière du Rempart | 7,706 |
Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.