Barbados
- Capital
- Bridgetown
- Region
- Caribbean
- Population, 2025
- 283,000
- Currency
- BBD
- Area
- 430 km²
Across Barbados's 3 priced cities, one person needs about $2,308 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $1,792.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%52
- Safety20%55
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%74
- Connectivity10%62
- Cost10%20
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 28.5%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 25%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 9%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 17.5%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 11%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 12.8%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 55.3
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 44.7
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 7.4
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #58 worldwide
- 129
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- —
Cities in Barbados
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Christchurch | 54 | 81.4 | $1,100 | $2,929 | 144.1 | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 2Bridgetown | 54 | 74.9 | $1,183 | $1,792 | 88.7 | 98.5K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 3Barbados | 49 | 78.3 | $667 | $1,325 | 82.2 | — | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 4Wildey | — | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 5Woodbourne | — | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 6Holetown | — | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 7Bel Air | — | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 8Ellerton | — | — | — | $500 | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 9Oistins | — | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 10The Crane | — | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 11Alexandra | — | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 12Rockley | — | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 13Speightstown | — | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |