Montenegro
- Capital
- Podgorica
- Region
- Southeast Europe
- Population, 2025
- 623,000
- Currency
- EUR
- Area
- 13,812 km²
Across Montenegro's 17 priced cities, one person needs about $1,323 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $1,199.
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%58
- Safety20%66
- Health care15%49
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%86
- Connectivity10%43
- Cost10%53
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
- #69
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
- 15%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 9%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 15%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 21%
- SourcePwC
- Capital gains, individuals
- 15%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 15.5%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 6%
- 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
- 66.4
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 33.6
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 0.8
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #85 worldwide
- 91
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +11%
Cities in Montenegro
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Podgorica | 59 | 43.7 | $667 | $1,199 | 103.5 | 236.9K | High confidence, 64 contributors |
| 2Bijelo Polje | 57 | 43.9 | $232 | $870 | 111.5 | 15.4K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 3Kolasin | 55 | 38.6 | $406 | $896 | 103.8 | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 4Niksic | 55 | 35.9 | $429 | $823 | 97.1 | 58.2K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 5Cetinje | 54 | 42.4 | $430 | — | — | 15.1K | Medium confidence, 13 contributors |
| 6Ulcinj | 53 | 40.4 | — | — | — | 10.8K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 7Herceg Novi | 53 | 44.7 | $671 | $1,073 | 91.3 | 19.5K | Medium confidence, 12 contributors |
| 8Danilovgrad | 53 | 41.4 | — | $1,009 | 89.5 | 5.2K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 9Igalo | 52 | 42.3 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 10Perast | 52 | 42.5 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 11Sutomore | 52 | 42.7 | $383 | $689 | 76.9 | — | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 12Bar | 52 | 43.5 | $639 | $954 | 84.3 | 17.7K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 13Tivat | 52 | 44.2 | $907 | $1,219 | 88.7 | 6.3K | High confidence, 35 contributors |
| 14Zabljak | 52 | 36.7 | — | $835 | 78.3 | — | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 15Kotor | 51 | 46.8 | $689 | $976 | 80.1 | 5.3K | High confidence, 22 contributors |
| 16Budva | 50 | 51.7 | $806 | $1,031 | 74.5 | 18K | High confidence, 23 contributors |
| 17Berane | 47 | 43.9 | — | $580 | 50.0 | 11.1K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |