Where to live in Antigua & Barbuda
We track one city in Antigua & Barbuda: Saint John’s. It averages 27°C over the year. We estimate a couple needs €3,007 a month to live centrally. Antigua & Barbuda sits in our zero or very low tax tier. For foreigners, long-term residency is comparatively open.
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- Tax tier
- Zero or very low
- Little to no personal income tax
- Languages
- English
- English everywhere
- Safety
- 65/100
- country-level
- Healthcare
- 65/100
- country-level
- Internet
- ~70 Mbps
- median fixed broadband
The city we track
| City | Size | Setting | Avg temp | Rain a year | Est. cost a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint John’s | smaller | coastal | 27°C | 1,229 mm | €3,007 |
Source: City size from GeoNames, temperature from the Open-Meteo archive (2019 to 2023 averages), rainfall from TerraClimate (1991 to 2020 normals), coast distance from Natural Earth. Cost is our model estimate for a couple living centrally.
Taxes
Antigua & Barbuda sits in our zero or very low tax tier: little to no personal income tax. The tier applies to every city here, and couples who cap tax below it will not see these cities in their results.
Source: OurNextCity tax tiers, assigned by hand from each country's top marginal personal income tax rate and overall tax reputation, with no fixed rate cut-offs. Coarse by design; not tax advice.
Residency and visas
Comparatively open. Long-term residency is realistic via a flat-tax permanent residency programme for the financially independent, a two-year renewable digital nomad permit for remote workers, citizenship by investment, or ordinary residence converting to permanent residency after four years.
The cheapest self-funded routes we track for Antigua & Barbuda:
- Income: about $8,333 a month (Antigua & Barbuda Permanent Residency Programme (tax residency), USD 100,000/yr minimum income (USD 8,333/mo); holder also pays a USD 20,000/yr flat tax. All figures already in USD, no conversion.; as of June 2026)
- Investment: about $230k (Antigua & Barbuda Citizenship by Investment, National Development Fund donation, USD 230,000 minimum one-time contribution (single applicant). Figure already in USD, no conversion.; as of June 2026)
For short visits, 113 of 198 passports can enter visa-free and 85 can get an e-visa or visa on arrival.
Source: OurNextCity residency dataset, hand-reviewed approximations researched against published immigration rules, figures as of June 2026. Not legal advice: check the official source before you apply. Short-stay entry from the passport-index dataset (ilyankou, MIT).