Croatia
Republic of Croatia
- Capital
- Zagreb
- Region
- Southeast Europe
- Population, 2025
- 3.9 million
- Currency
- EUR
- Area
- 56,594 km²
Across Croatia's 41 priced cities, one person needs about $1,778 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $1,641.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
67out of 100
- Purchasing power25%65
- Safety20%75
- Health care15%65
- Climate10%87
- Air quality10%92
- Connectivity10%49
- Cost10%35
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
- #21
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
57.7
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
18.5
New York = 100
Purchasing power
127.5
New York = 100
One person
$1,778
A month, rent included
Net salary
$1,641
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$911
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$27,104
2025
Growth
+3.4%
2025
Unemployment
5.0%
2025
Inflation
3.7%
2025
Life expectancy
78.9 years
2024
Internet users
84%
2024
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 10%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 12%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 18%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 25%
- SourcePwC
- Capital gains, individuals
- 12%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 20%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 16.5%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Inheritance tax
- 5%
- 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
- 74.8
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 25.2
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 0.7
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #76 worldwide
- 93
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #40 worldwide
- 120
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +17%
Cities in Croatia
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Rijeka | 69 | 58.4 | $713 | $1,533 | 110.3 | 108K | High confidence, 28 contributors |
| 2Zagreb | 67 | 57.7 | $911 | $1,984 | 127.5 | 663.6K | High confidence, 152 contributors |
| 3Split | 65 | 62.3 | $1,030 | $1,641 | 95.5 | 149.8K | High confidence, 39 contributors |
| 4Vinkovci | 61 | 48.2 | $344 | $1,286 | 137.7 | 28.1K | Medium confidence, 11 contributors |
| 5Osijek | 60 | 54.1 | $659 | $1,397 | 108.5 | 75.5K | Medium confidence, 13 contributors |
| 6Slavonski Brod | 60 | 47.6 | $574 | $1,519 | 134.8 | 45K | Medium confidence, 9 contributors |
| 7Karlovac | 60 | 50.3 | $497 | $1,411 | 128.7 | 41.9K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 8Zapresic | 60 | 56.2 | $517 | $1,607 | 135.0 | 18.8K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 9Cakovec | 59 | 50.4 | $494 | $1,320 | 120.7 | 15.1K | Medium confidence, 12 contributors |
| 10Varazdin | 58 | 49.9 | $580 | $1,392 | 119.7 | 36.2K | Medium confidence, 13 contributors |
| 11Samobor | 58 | 52.9 | $689 | $1,626 | 125.3 | 16.9K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 12Velika Gorica | 58 | 59.0 | $536 | $1,454 | 116.9 | 30K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 13Trogir | 58 | 59.5 | $689 | $1,722 | 124.4 | 10.1K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 14Dubrovnik | 57 | 64.5 | $1,504 | $1,502 | 69.5 | 26.9K | High confidence, 33 contributors |
| 15Pula | 57 | 58.0 | $700 | $1,544 | 112.3 | 52.2K | Medium confidence, 16 contributors |
| 16Sisak | 57 | 56.4 | $476 | $1,159 | 100.2 | 27.9K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 17Bjelovar | 57 | 57.2 | $464 | — | — | 24.4K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 18Metkovic | 56 | — | — | $696 | — | 14K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 19Petrinja | 56 | — | — | — | — | 13K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 20Makarska | 56 | — | $696 | — | — | 12.8K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 21Rovinj | 56 | — | $976 | $1,722 | — | 11.6K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 22Gospic | 56 | — | — | — | — | 6.4K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 23Buzet | 56 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 24Supetar | 56 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 25Sibenik | 56 | 48.2 | $761 | $1,288 | 99.1 | 31.1K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 26Virovitica | 56 | 54.9 | — | — | — | 13.5K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 27Novska | 56 | 55.2 | — | — | — | 5.9K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 28Oriovac | 56 | 55.2 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 29Matulji | 56 | 55.3 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 30Sesvete | 56 | 55.8 | — | — | — | 55.3K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 31Porec | 56 | 54.9 | $708 | $1,301 | 97.0 | 8.8K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 32Umag | 56 | 56.1 | — | — | — | 6.8K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 33Vukovar | 56 | 57.0 | — | — | — | 22.3K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 34Dugo Selo | 56 | 57.0 | — | — | — | 11.1K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 35Zupanja | 56 | 57.0 | — | — | — | 9.2K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 36Knin | 56 | 57.0 | — | — | — | 8.3K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 37Nasice | 56 | 57.1 | — | — | — | 7.3K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 38Biograd na Moru | 56 | 56.8 | — | — | — | 5.6K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 39Cres | 56 | 57.0 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 40Nova Gradiska | 55 | 58.2 | — | — | — | 9.8K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 41Crikvenica | 55 | 58.1 | — | — | — | 6.2K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 42Kutina | 55 | 59.6 | — | — | — | 12K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 43Ogulin | 55 | 59.6 | — | — | — | 7.4K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 44Koprivnica | 55 | 46.4 | — | $1,033 | 84.1 | 22.3K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 45Jastrebarsko | 54 | 64.6 | $580 | $1,160 | 85.6 | 5.3K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 46Zadar | 54 | 58.3 | $914 | $1,424 | 91.0 | 67.3K | High confidence, 30 contributors |
| 47Solin | 54 | 58.6 | $689 | $1,091 | 79.5 | 21K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 48Zabok | 52 | 57.0 | — | $870 | 63.6 | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |