Hong Kong
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China
- Capital
- City of Victoria
- Region
- Eastern Asia
- Population, 2025
- 7.5 million
- Currency
- HKD
- Area
- 1,104 km²
Across Hong Kong's 1 priced cities, one person needs about $3,214 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $3,151.
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%78
- Health care15%67
- Climate10%84
- Air quality10%43
- Connectivity10%98
- Cost10%7
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.
- Livability rank among countries
- #44
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
- 16%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 16.5%
- SourceTrading Economics
- VAT or sales tax
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Inheritance 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
- 78.2
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 21.8
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 0.4
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #4 worldwide
- 362
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #51 worldwide
- 89
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +9%
Cities in Hong Kong
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Tseung Kwan O | 67 | — | — | — | — | 412.9K | Low confidence |
| 2Ma On Shan | 67 | — | — | — | — | 215.2K | Low confidence |
| 3Hong Kong Island | 65 | — | — | — | — | 1.2M | Low confidence |
| 4Victoria | 65 | — | — | — | — | 956.8K | Low confidence |
| 5Sha Tin | 65 | — | — | — | — | 495.2K | Low confidence |
| 6Sham Shui Po | 65 | — | — | — | — | 431.1K | Low confidence |
| 7Wong Tai Sin | 65 | — | — | — | — | 425.2K | Low confidence |
| 8Kowloon City | 65 | — | — | — | — | 418.7K | Low confidence |
| 9Kwai Chung | 65 | — | — | — | — | 331.6K | Low confidence |
| 10Tsuen Wan | 65 | — | — | — | — | 318.9K | Low confidence |
| 11Tai Po | 65 | — | — | — | — | 274.1K | Low confidence |
| 12Fanling | 65 | — | — | — | — | 263.2K | Low confidence |
| 13Kowloon City Centre | 65 | — | — | — | — | 194.3K | Low confidence |
| 14Tsing Yi Town | 65 | — | — | — | — | 182.1K | Low confidence |
| 15Wan Chai | 65 | — | — | — | — | 166.7K | Low confidence |
| 16Tuen Mun | 65 | — | — | — | — | 507.9K | Low confidence |
| 17Tin Shui Wai | 65 | — | — | — | — | 286.2K | Low confidence |
| 18Yuen Long | 65 | — | — | — | — | 200K | Low confidence |
| 19Yuen Long San Hui | 65 | — | — | — | — | 200K | Low confidence |
| 20Yuen Long Kau Hui | 65 | — | — | — | — | 169.6K | Low confidence |
| 21San Tung Chung Hang | 65 | — | — | — | — | 116K | Low confidence |
| 22Tung Chung | 65 | — | — | — | — | 114.1K | Low confidence |
| 23New Territories | 65 | — | — | — | — | 4M | Low confidence |
| 24Kowloon | 65 | — | — | — | — | 2.2M | Low confidence |
| 25Aberdeen | 64 | — | — | — | — | 157.4K | Low confidence |
| 26Hong Kong | 61 | 64.4 | $2,248 | $3,151 | 112.0 | 7.4M | High confidence, 250 contributors |