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title: "Is Jamaica a Good Place to Live? — Geo-Parity"
description: "Jamaica (Kingston): 111.5 Mbps internet, safety 0/100, healthcare 74/100 — essentials ≈ $1,355/month, so $3k lives \"very comfortable\". Full quality-vs-cost breakdown."
canonical: "https://geo-parity.com/livability/jamaica/"
json: "https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json"
generator: geo-parity markdown twin
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Livability · rank 116/167

# Is 🇯🇲 Jamaica (Kingston) a good place to live?

Quality score **51/100** against essentials of **$1,355/month**.

## The five metrics

Internet 45 111.5 Mbps median broadband, 90.1% online

Safety 0 49.4 homicides/100k (2023)

Healthcare 74 UHC service coverage 74/100 (2023)

Air quality 86 PM2.5 11.5 µg/m³ (2023)

## Beside the score, not inside it

Neither of these is part of the composite above, deliberately. Folding governance into a quality-of-life number would bury a political judgement where you could not see it or argue with it, and connection *price* is a different question from connection *speed* — somewhere fast and expensive and somewhere slow and cheap are different trade-offs, not one average.

- **Rule of law**: middling
- World Bank WGI estimate -0.08 · corruption control -0.1 · stability 0.48 (2024). Scale −2.5 to +2.5, higher is better.
- **What connectivity costs**: $42.18 /mo broadband
- Mobile 10GB $25.47/month. ITU price basket. The speed above is scored; this price is not.

## What your budget buys

| Monthly budget | vs essentials ($1,355) | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- |
| $2,000 | 1.5× | comfortable |
| $3,000 | 2.2× | very comfortable |
| $5,000 | 3.7× | like royalty |

Essentials from the [Pint & Property basket](https://geo-parity.com/expenses/?tab=prices). Rank countries by your own priorities in the [interactive matrix](https://geo-parity.com/livability/).

## Similar value-for-money

- [🇬🇩 Grenada](https://geo-parity.com/livability/grenada/) — quality 51.1, essentials $1,329/mo
- [🇺🇸 United States](https://geo-parity.com/livability/united-states/) — quality 88.4, essentials $2,410/mo
- [🇧🇿 Belize](https://geo-parity.com/livability/belize/) — quality 45.1, essentials $1,158/mo
- [🇦🇬 Antigua and Barbuda](https://geo-parity.com/livability/antigua-and-barbuda/) — quality 56.7, essentials $1,570/mo

See also: [everyday prices](https://geo-parity.com/ppp/jamaica/) · [retiring in Jamaica](https://geo-parity.com/fire/jamaica/)

## Frequently asked questions

- **Is Jamaica a good place to live for remote workers?**: Jamaica scores 51/100 on our equal-weighted livability composite (internet 111.5 Mbps, safety 0, healthcare 74, air quality 86; English not scored) — rank 116 of 167.
- **How fast is the internet in Jamaica?**: Median fixed broadband is around 111.5 Mbps.
- **What does $3,000/month get you in Jamaica?**: Single-person essentials run about $1,355/month at local prices, so $3,000 lives "very comfortable" (2.2× essentials).

Safety, healthcare and air quality are objective figures from the World Bank (homicide rate, life expectancy) and WHO (PM2.5); internet speed and English are curated. City variation is real — verify locally. Agents: GET /api/livability.json?budget=3000.

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Source: Geo-Parity — https://geo-parity.com/livability/jamaica/ · JSON: https://geo-parity.com/api/livability.json