Mauritius
Republic of Mauritius
- Capital
- Port Louis
- Region
- Eastern Africa
- Population, 2025
- 1.2 million
- Currency
- MUR
- Area
- 2,040 km²
Across Mauritius's 30 priced cities, one person needs about $984 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $683.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
57out of 100
- Purchasing power25%54
- Safety20%51
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%78
- Connectivity10%32
- Cost10%77
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.
Cost of living index
31.3
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
9.5
New York = 100
Purchasing power
94.3
New York = 100
One person
$984
A month, rent included
Net salary
$683
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$476
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$12,991
2025
Growth
+3.2%
2025
Unemployment
5.6%
2025
Inflation
3.7%
2025
Life expectancy
73.8 years
2024
Internet users
73%
2024
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 20%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 15%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 15%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 3%
- 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
- 50.7
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 49.3
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2022
- 2.3
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #101 worldwide
- 63
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +10%
Cities in Mauritius
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Long Mountain | 63 | 29.1 | $160 | $1,064 | 203.9 | 7.8K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 2Vacoas | 63 | 30.7 | $261 | $683 | 108.2 | 115.3K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 3Phoenix | 61 | 31.3 | $526 | $946 | 108.5 | 115.3K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 4Ebene | 61 | 32.2 | $255 | $1,170 | 181.1 | — | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 5Beau Bassin-Rose Hill | 60 | 31.3 | $475 | $780 | 94.3 | 111.4K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 6Grand Bay | 54 | 38.7 | $596 | $1,288 | 125.1 | — | Medium confidence, 21 contributors |
| 7Port Louis | 53 | 33.8 | $476 | $683 | 79.4 | 155.2K | Medium confidence, 16 contributors |
| 8Centre de Flacq | 52 | 30.0 | $319 | $585 | 86.9 | 17.7K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 9Curepipe | 52 | 30.2 | $578 | $883 | 97.8 | 78.6K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 10Riviere Du Rempart | 51 | 28.4 | $213 | $426 | 76.1 | 10.8K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 11Bambous | 51 | 31.3 | — | — | — | 17.8K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 12Fond du Sac | 51 | 32.0 | — | — | — | 5.8K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 13Bel Air | 51 | 33.0 | — | — | — | 18K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 14Rose Belle | 51 | 32.8 | — | — | — | 12.6K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 15Quatre Bornes | 51 | 30.9 | $315 | $514 | 75.3 | 77.3K | Medium confidence, 10 contributors |
| 16Mahebourg | 51 | 33.5 | — | — | — | 17K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 17Albion | 50 | 34.1 | — | — | — | — | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 18Surinam | 50 | 34.6 | — | — | — | 10.6K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 19Grand Bois | 50 | 34.6 | — | — | — | 7.8K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 20Grand-Gaube | 50 | 34.6 | — | — | — | 7.7K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 21Brisee Verdiere | 50 | 34.6 | — | — | — | 7.7K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 22Petite Riviere | 50 | 34.6 | — | — | — | 5.3K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 23Bel Ombre | 50 | 34.6 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 24Midlands | 50 | 34.6 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 25Poudre D'or | 50 | 34.6 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 26Roche Terre | 50 | 34.6 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 27Saint Pierre | 50 | 35.2 | — | — | — | 16.7K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 28Moka | 49 | 34.7 | $512 | $683 | 75.6 | 9.4K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 29Tamarin | 48 | 34.1 | $736 | $841 | 77.1 | — | Medium confidence, 13 contributors |
| 30Flic en Flac | 48 | 36.6 | $566 | $689 | 70.6 | — | Medium confidence, 12 contributors |
| 31Terre Rouge | 45 | — | — | — | — | 11.2K | Low confidence |
| 32Port Mathurin | 45 | — | — | — | — | 8.4K | Low confidence |
| 33Beau Vallon | 45 | — | — | — | — | 7K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 34Benares | 45 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 35Belle Rose | 45 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |