Guernsey
Bailiwick of Guernsey
- Capital
- St. Peter Port
- Region
- Northern Europe
- Population
- —
- Currency
- GBP
- Area
- 78 km²
Across Guernsey's 2 priced cities, one person needs about $3,375 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $5,263.
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%76
- Safety20%No data
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%96
- Connectivity10%No data
- Cost10%4
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
- 20%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- VAT or sales tax
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
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
- —
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- —
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people
- —
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median
- —
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- —
Cities in Guernsey
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1St Peter Port | 69 | 78.0 | $2,204 | $5,330 | 180.5 | 16.5K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 2Saint Peter Port | 68 | 74.0 | $2,393 | $5,263 | 171.6 | 16.5K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 3Saint Sampson | — | — | $2,026 | — | — | 9K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 4Torteval | — | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 5St Anne | — | — | $1,071 | $2,008 | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 6Castel | — | — | $2,008 | — | — | — | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 7Sark | — | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 5 contributors |