Where to live in St. Lucia
We track one city in St. Lucia: Castries. It averages 26°C over the year. We estimate a couple needs €2,742 a month to live centrally. St. Lucia 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
- Good English
- Safety
- 62/100
- country-level
- Healthcare
- 62/100
- country-level
- Internet
- ~60 Mbps
- median fixed broadband
The city we track
| City | Size | Setting | Avg temp | Rain a year | Est. cost a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castries | smaller | coastal | 26°C | 2,115 mm | €2,742 |
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
St. Lucia 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. St. Lucia's realistic long-term path is its Citizenship by Investment programme (NEF donation, approved real estate, government bonds, or enterprise project) which carries no residence requirement, alongside an ordinary residence permit that can lead to permanent residence after roughly five years.
The cheapest self-funded routes we track for St. Lucia:
- Investment: about $240k (St. Lucia Citizenship by Investment, National Economic Fund donation, USD 240,000 for a single applicant (already in USD); as of June 2026)
For short visits, 95 of 198 passports can enter visa-free, 48 can get an e-visa or visa on arrival and 55 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).