Bahamas
Commonwealth of the Bahamas
- Capital
- Nassau
- Region
- Caribbean
- Population, 2025
- 403,000
- Currency
- BSD
- Area
- 13,943 km²
Across Bahamas's 1 priced cities, one person needs about $3,355 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $3,356.
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%61
- Safety20%43
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%94
- Connectivity10%47
- Cost10%5
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
- 0%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 0%
- SourceTrading Economics
- VAT or sales tax
- 10%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 4.7%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 6.7%
- 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
- 43.4
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 56.6
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2022
- 32.2
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #80 worldwide
- 93
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #85 worldwide
- 43
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +13%
Cities in Bahamas
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Nassau | 53 | 124.2 | $1,490 | $3,356 | 114.3 | 227.9K | Medium confidence, 11 contributors |
| 2Freeport | 45 | — | $1,000 | — | — | 26.9K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 3West End | 45 | — | — | — | — | 12.7K | Low confidence |
| 4George Town | 45 | — | — | — | — | 7.3K | Low confidence |
| 5Marsh Harbour | 45 | — | — | — | — | 5.3K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 6Snug Corner | 45 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 7Spanish Wells | 45 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 8Sweeting Cay | 45 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 9Duncan Town | 45 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 10New Providence | 45 | — | $1,500 | — | — | — | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 11Albert Town | 45 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 12Andros Town | 45 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 13Alice Town | 45 | — | — | $2,500 | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 14Fresh Creek | 45 | — | — | $2,300 | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 15Paradise Island | 45 | — | — | $2,500 | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 16Eleuthera | 45 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 17Pirates Well | 45 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 18High Rock | 45 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |