Where to live in St. Vincent & Grenadines
We track one city in St. Vincent & Grenadines: Kingstown. It averages 27°C over the year. We estimate a couple needs €2,644 a month to live centrally. St. Vincent & Grenadines sits in our low to medium tax tier. For foreigners, long-term residency is possible, with conditions.
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- Tax tier
- Low to medium
- Moderate personal income tax
- Languages
- English
- Good English
- Safety
- 62/100
- country-level
- Healthcare
- 60/100
- country-level
- Internet
- ~60 Mbps
- median fixed broadband
The city we track
| City | Size | Setting | Avg temp | Rain a year | Est. cost a month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingstown | smaller | coastal | 27°C | 2,203 mm | €2,644 |
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. Vincent & Grenadines 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
Possible, with conditions. Residency is obtained through a discretionary residency permit from the Office of the Prime Minister (Residency Department) that requires proof of current financial resources or a local sponsor plus modest fixed fees, with no published income or investment threshold; a citizenship-by-investment program is planned for mid-2026 but is not yet live (EC dollar pegged at US$1 = EC$2.70).
For short visits, 186 of 198 passports can enter visa-free and 12 need a visa in advance.
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).