United States Virgin Islands
Virgin Islands of the United States
- Capital
- Charlotte Amalie
- Region
- Caribbean
- Population, 2025
- 104,000
- Currency
- USD
- Area
- 347 km²
Across United States Virgin Islands's 2 priced cities, one person needs about $2,930 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $2,767.
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%53
- Safety20%41
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%100
- Connectivity10%No data
- Cost10%11
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.
- Corporate tax
- 21%
- 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
- 40.8
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 59.2
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2012
- 49.9
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median
- —
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- —
Cities in United States Virgin Islands
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Charlotte Amalie | 55 | 111.9 | $1,250 | — | — | 20K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 2St Thomas | 41 | 128.1 | $1,600 | $2,767 | 89.7 | — | Low confidence, 5 contributors |
| 3Saint Croix (St. Croix) | — | — | $2,500 | — | — | 50.6K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 4Tutu | — | — | — | — | — | 5.5K | Low confidence |
| 5Frederiksted | — | — | $1,350 | — | — | — | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 6St John | — | — | — | $5,083 | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 7Christiansted | — | — | $1,000 | $2,500 | — | — | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 8Cruz Bay | — | — | $1,800 | $6,200 | — | — | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 9Kingshill | — | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |