Greenland
- Capital
- Nuuk
- Region
- North America
- Population, 2025
- 57,000
- Currency
- DKK
- Area
- 2,166,086 km²
Across Greenland's 3 priced cities, one person needs about $3,147 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $5,197.
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%79
- Safety20%79
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%90
- Connectivity10%No data
- Cost10%8
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
- 10%
- SourcePwC
- Corporate tax
- 25%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Property 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, 2016
- 5.4
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median
- —
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- —
Cities in Greenland
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Sisimiut | 72 | 101.7 | $310 | $6,484 | 403.3 | 5.2K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 2Nuuk | 59 | 102.9 | $1,602 | $5,197 | 188.8 | 14.8K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 3Ilulissat | 49 | 111.3 | $486 | $2,073 | 109.8 | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 4Arsuk | — | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 5Igaliku | — | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 6Kuummiut | — | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 7Narsaq | — | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 8Qaqortoq | — | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |