Cayman Islands
- Capital
- George Town
- Region
- Caribbean
- Population, 2025
- 76,000
- Currency
- KYD
- Area
- 264 km²
Across Cayman Islands's 3 priced cities, one person needs about $4,918 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $7,261.
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%76
- Safety20%71
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%83
- Connectivity10%No data
- Cost10%1
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
- 0%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 0%
- SourceTrading Economics
- VAT or sales 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
- 71.0
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 29.0
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2020
- 4.4
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median
- —
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- —
Cities in Cayman Islands
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1George Town | 63 | 133.5 | $2,914 | $7,261 | 168.8 | 29.4K | Medium confidence, 20 contributors |
| 2West Bay | 56 | 121.4 | $2,161 | $5,802 | 166.5 | 15.3K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 3Seven Mile Beach | 55 | 133.8 | $5,527 | $10,213 | 154.9 | — | Low confidence, 3 contributors |