Where to live in Dominica
We track one city in Dominica: Roseau. It averages 26°C over the year. We estimate a couple needs €2,347 a month to live centrally. For foreigners, long-term residency is comparatively open.
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- Safety
- 66/100
- country-level estimate
- Healthcare
- 57/100
- country-level estimate
- Democracy
- 7.0/10
- estimated
Estimated from World Bank indicators and calibrated to the scales of our reference tables: safety from the Worldwide Governance Indicators Political Stability and Absence of Violence estimate (GOV_WGI_PV.EST, 2025) and life expectancy at birth (SP.DYN.LE00.IN, 2024), healthcare from the life expectancy at birth (SP.DYN.LE00.IN, 2024) and current health spending per person in US dollars (SH.XPD.CHEX.PC.CD, 2023), cost of living from the price level of GDP relative to the United States, from GDP per person in US dollars and at purchasing power parity (NY.GDP.PCAP.CD/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.CD, 2025) and democracy score from the Worldwide Governance Indicators Voice and Accountability estimate (GOV_WGI_VA.EST, 2025). Source: The World Bank (World Development Indicators, Worldwide Governance Indicators), CC BY 4.0.
Limited data for Dominica. Figures for safety, healthcare, cost of living and political stability in Dominica are country-level estimates from World Bank indicators, each named with its year. We have no tax, English, social openness or internet speed figures for Dominica, so the quiz scores those factors conservatively and this page leaves them out.
The city we track
| City | Size | Setting | Avg temp | Rain a year | Est. cost a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roseau | smaller | coastal | 26°C | 1,991 mm | €2,347 |
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, from the World Bank price level.
Residency and visas
Comparatively open. Long-term status is realistically reached through the Citizenship by Investment programme (donation or real estate), with a conventional residency permit available to those employed or self-sufficient on-island who can naturalize after several years.
The cheapest self-funded routes we track for Dominica:
- Investment: about $200k (Citizenship by Investment, Economic Diversification Fund minimum non-refundable contribution for a single applicant, USD 200,000 (real estate option also USD 200,000); as of June 2026)
For short visits, 196 of 198 passports can enter visa-free and 2 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).