Jordan
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
- Capital
- Amman
- Region
- Western Asia
- Population, 2025
- 12 million
- Currency
- JOD
- Area
- 89,342 kmΒ²
Across Jordan's 16 priced cities, one person needs about $877 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $564.
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%51
- Safety20%60
- Health care15%66
- Climate10%91
- Air quality10%80
- Connectivity10%75
- Cost10%81
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
- #22
What it costs
Averages over the countryβs cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
41.3
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
4.9
New York = 100
Purchasing power
85.0
New York = 100
One person
$877
A month, rent included
Net salary
$564
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$219
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$5,348
2025
Growth
+2.8%
2025
Unemployment
16.5%
2025
Inflation
1.8%
2025
Life expectancy
78.0 years
2024
Internet users
96%
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
- 20%
- SourceTrading Economics
- VAT or sales tax
- 16%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employee
- 7.5%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 14.3%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeoβs crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 60.4
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 39.6
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 1.0
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #38 worldwide
- 199
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #81 worldwide
- 49
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +7%
Cities in Jordan
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Suwaylih | 67 | 38.4 | $141 | $776 | 123.6 | 151K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 2Wadi As Sir | 67 | 46.2 | β | β | β | 181.2K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 3As Salt | 66 | 32.2 | $141 | $564 | 103.2 | 107.9K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 4Ar RamthΔ | 66 | β | β | β | β | 155.7K | Low confidence |
| 5βAjlΕ«n | 66 | β | β | β | β | 125.6K | Low confidence |
| 6Russeifa | 66 | β | β | β | β | 268.2K | Low confidence |
| 7αΈ¨ayy KhildΔ | 66 | β | β | β | β | 251K | Low confidence |
| 8Khuraybat as SΕ«q | 66 | β | β | β | β | 186.2K | Low confidence |
| 9Az-zarqa' | 65 | 30.3 | $162 | $501 | 92.8 | 792.7K | Medium confidence, 10 contributors |
| 10Irbid | 64 | 35.1 | $219 | $555 | 85.0 | 569.1K | High confidence, 22 contributors |
| 11Amman | 62 | 47.6 | $463 | $772 | 74.9 | 1.3M | High confidence, 78 contributors |
| 12Al-fuhays | 59 | 46.2 | β | $1,058 | 133.6 | 18.9K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 13Al Mafraq | 59 | 46.1 | β | $1,049 | 132.6 | 57.1K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 14Umm As-summaq | 56 | 44.3 | β | β | β | 18.3K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 15Ma'an | 55 | 46.2 | β | β | β | 50.4K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 16Al Jubayhah | 55 | 45.1 | $282 | β | β | 46.8K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 17Kerak (Al Karak) | 54 | 39.6 | $183 | $515 | 75.7 | 22.6K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 18Aqaba (Aquaba, Al-'aqabah) | 53 | 41.3 | $282 | $564 | 71.5 | 95K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 19Madaba | 52 | 41.5 | $212 | $494 | 67.6 | 82.3K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 20At Tafilah | 52 | β | β | β | β | 25.4K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 21'anjarah | 52 | β | $141 | $931 | β | 17.6K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 22At-turrah | 52 | β | β | β | β | 14.6K | Low confidence |
| 23Rabba | 52 | β | β | β | β | β | Low confidence |
| 24Umm Nuwarah | 52 | β | β | β | β | β | Low confidence |
| 25Kufranjaj | 52 | β | β | β | β | β | Low confidence |
| 26Wadi Musa | 51 | 40.1 | $353 | $494 | 59.1 | 14K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 27Jerash | 50 | 39.9 | β | $367 | 51.7 | 27K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |