Jamaica
- Capital
- Kingston
- Region
- Caribbean
- Population, 2025
- 2.8 million
- Currency
- JMD
- Area
- 10,991 km²
Across Jamaica's 27 priced cities, one person needs about $1,907 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $745.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
39out of 100
- Purchasing power25%31
- Safety20%33
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%79
- Connectivity10%45
- Cost10%28
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.
Cost of living index
62.6
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
22.9
New York = 100
Purchasing power
44.7
New York = 100
One person
$1,907
A month, rent included
Net salary
$745
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$967
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$8,003
2025
Growth
+0.1%
2025
Unemployment
3.3%
2025
Inflation
4.0%
2025
Life expectancy
71.6 years
2024
Internet users
90%
2024
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 30%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 25%
- SourceTrading Economics
- VAT or sales tax
- 15%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employee
- 7.3%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 12.5%
- 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
- 32.6
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 67.4
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 49.4
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #83 worldwide
- 92
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- −4%
Cities in Jamaica
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Portmore | 59 | 58.3 | $317 | $1,294 | 124.0 | 102.9K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 2New Kingston | 56 | — | — | — | — | 584K | Low confidence |
| 3Spanish Town | 54 | 63.1 | — | $1,173 | 85.0 | 145K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 4Ocho Rios | 45 | 54.4 | $380 | — | — | 26.5K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 5Kingston | 44 | 62.6 | $967 | $745 | 44.7 | 937.7K | High confidence, 20 contributors |
| 6Montego Bay | 43 | 56.3 | $317 | $599 | 58.8 | 82.9K | Medium confidence, 17 contributors |
| 7Buff Bay | 43 | 59.1 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 8Saint Ann's Bay | 43 | 61.4 | — | — | — | 13.7K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 9Lluidas Vale | 43 | 62.7 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 10Black River | 43 | 62.7 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 11Old Harbour | 43 | 63.1 | — | — | — | 26K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 12Linstead | 43 | 63.1 | — | — | — | 20.7K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 13Falmouth | 43 | 63.1 | — | — | — | 7.8K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 14Lucea | 43 | 63.1 | — | — | — | 7.4K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 15Duncans | 43 | 63.1 | — | — | — | 5.2K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 16Manchioneal | 43 | 63.1 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 17Cave Valley | 43 | 63.1 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 18Easington | 43 | 63.1 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 19Golden Grove | 43 | 63.1 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 20Gordon Town | 43 | 63.1 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 21Green Island | 43 | 63.1 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 22Alexandria | 43 | 63.1 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 23May Pen | 41 | — | — | — | — | 44.8K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 24Negril | 41 | 55.2 | $1,000 | — | — | 13.8K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 25Constant Spring | 41 | — | — | — | — | 12.8K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 26Seaforth | 41 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 27Wakefield | 41 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 28Alligator Pond | 41 | — | — | $613 | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 29Claremont | 41 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 30Bamboo | 41 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 31Richmond | 41 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 32Rocky Point | 41 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 33Bethel Town | 41 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 34Stony Hill | 41 | 60.4 | $949 | — | — | 8.6K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 35Mandeville | 40 | 54.1 | $475 | $501 | 44.5 | 47.1K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 36Half Way Tree | 40 | 54.0 | $1,139 | — | — | 18.6K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 37Saint Andrew Parish | 39 | 61.0 | $824 | $729 | 47.9 | — | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 38Santa Cruz | 37 | 55.4 | — | $406 | 31.7 | 8.2K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |