Where to live in the British Virgin Islands
We track one city in the British Virgin Islands: Road Town. It averages 27°C over the year. We estimate a couple needs €3,360 a month to live centrally. The British Virgin Islands sits in our zero or very low tax tier. For foreigners, long-term residency is hard to obtain.
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- Tax tier
- Zero or very low
- Little to no personal income tax
- Languages
- English
- English everywhere
- Safety
- 78/100
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Road Town | smaller | coastal | 27°C | 1,209 mm | €3,360 |
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
The British Virgin Islands 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
Hard to obtain. Long-term stay realistically comes via an employer-sponsored, quota-limited work permit or a discretionary financial-self-sufficiency residence certificate; there is no operational investment route, and permanent residence requires 20 years of consecutive residence.
Source: OurNextCity residency dataset, hand-reviewed approximations researched against published immigration rules. Not legal advice: check the official source before you apply. Short-stay entry from the passport-index dataset (ilyankou, MIT).