Liechtenstein
Principality of Liechtenstein
- Capital
- Vaduz
- Region
- Western Europe
- Population, 2025
- 41,000
- Currency
- CHF
- Area
- 160 km²
Across Liechtenstein's 2 priced cities, one person needs about $3,057 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $9,156.
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%94
- Safety20%80
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%94
- Connectivity10%No data
- Cost10%9
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
- 22.4%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 3%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 12.5%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 8.1%
- SourcePwC
- Capital gains, individuals
- 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
- —
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- —
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2021
- 5.1
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median
- —
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- —
Cities in Liechtenstein
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Vaduz | 71 | 113.2 | $1,357 | $9,156 | 342.3 | 5.2K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 2Schaan | — | — | $1,823 | $8,629 | — | 6K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 3Triesen | — | — | — | $11,026 | — | 5.2K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 4Balzers | — | 106.2 | $984 | $8,690 | 385.1 | — | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 5Planken | — | — | — | $12,251 | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 6Mauren | — | — | — | $8,882 | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 7Ruggell | — | — | — | $9,723 | — | — | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 8Eschen | — | — | — | $8,453 | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |