French Polynesia
- Capital
- Papeetฤ
- Region
- Polynesia
- Population, 2025
- 282,000
- Currency
- XPF
- Area
- 4,167 kmยฒ
Across French Polynesia's 2 priced cities, one person needs about $2,574 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $2,347.
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%99
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%87
- Connectivity10%No data
- Cost10%16
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 countryโs 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.
- Corporate tax
- 25%
- SourceWikipedia
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeoโs crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- โ
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- โ
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2009
- 0.4
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median
- โ
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- โ
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- โ
Cities in French Polynesia
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Papeete | 60 | 79.6 | $1,378 | $2,347 | 104.3 | 26.4K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 2Punaauia | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | 25.8K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 3Paopao | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | Low confidence |
| 4Papeari | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | โ | Low confidence |
| 5Tahiti | โ | 60.8 | $1,058 | $2,116 | 122.7 | โ | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 6Amaru | โ | โ | โ | $1,739 | โ | โ | Low confidence, 0 contributors |