Northern Mariana Islands
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands
- Capital
- Saipan
- Region
- Micronesia
- Population, 2025
- 44,000
- Currency
- USD
- Area
- 464 km²
Across Northern Mariana Islands's 1 priced cities, one person needs about $2,011 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $1,005.
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%38
- Safety20%No data
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%100
- Connectivity10%No data
- Cost10%26
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.
No tax rates are published for Northern Mariana Islands yet.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
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- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
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- HomicidesPer 100,000 people
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Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median
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- Mobile downloadMbps, median
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- Change in a yearFixed download speed
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Cities in Northern Mariana Islands
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Saipan | 55 | 80.6 | $800 | $1,005 | 57.1 | 48.2K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |