Where to live in Barbados
We track one city in Barbados: Bridgetown. It averages 27°C over the year. We estimate a couple needs €3,205 a month to live centrally. Barbados sits in our low to medium tax tier. For foreigners, long-term residency is comparatively open.
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- Tax tier
- Low to medium
- Moderate personal income tax
- Languages
- English
- English everywhere
- Safety
- 68/100
- country-level
- Healthcare
- 70/100
- country-level
- Internet
- ~90 Mbps
- median fixed broadband
The city we track
| City | Size | Setting | Avg temp | Rain a year | Est. cost a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bridgetown | smaller | coastal | 27°C | 1,510 mm | €3,205 |
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
Barbados sits in our low to medium tax tier: moderate 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. Barbados offers a clear path for those with means: an income-based 12-month Welcome Stamp (renewable) for remote workers and an investment-based Special Entry and Reside Permit (SERP), with indefinite residency at the top tier, but no points-based skilled route and permanent residence requiring years of prior residence.
The cheapest self-funded routes we track for Barbados:
- Income: about $4,167 a month (Barbados Welcome Stamp remote-work visa, USD 50,000/yr income (USD 4,167/mo), 12-mo renewable; figures already in USD; as of June 2026)
- Investment: about $300k (Barbados SERP Category 2, USD 300,000 real-estate investment from foreign-sourced funds (5-yr renewable, indefinite if applied at 60+); as of June 2026)
For short visits, 179 of 198 passports can enter visa-free and 19 need a visa in advance.
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).