Cost of Living inLes Cayes, Haiti
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Purchasing Power vs. United States
Based on GDP per capita (PPP). Haiti: $2,810/capita.
Income Category
GDP per Capita
City Population
Child Education
Public-schooling rules and international-school pricing are not sourced for Haiti yet. Quality, expat-access, instruction language, and tuition will appear here once verified.
Childcare & Domestic Help
Nanny, housekeeper, and driver pricing is not yet sourced for Les Cayes. We publish this section only when we can tie it to local job-board, agency, or country fallback evidence.
Getting Around
Neighborhood mobility profiles are rolling out city by city.Les Cayes is still missing a verified walkability, transit, airport, and rideshare profile.
Healthcare
System strength, outcome signals, facility coverage, and self-pay visibility in Haiti.
Method: country metrics come from public system indicators, facility coverage reflects mapped providers we can inventory, direct pricing only reflects observed self-pay pages, and relative care cost can fall back to broad cost-of-living healthcare indices. Sparse pricing does not imply sparse healthcare availability.
Healthcare system
LimitedSolid hospital-bed capacity help, but coverage looks thinner and doctor staffing is lighter.
Public care
LimitedPublic coverage looks thinner, public funding looks lighter, and patients still shoulder a meaningful share of costs weigh on this rating.
Private care
LimitedSelf-pay pricing transparency is still sparse weigh on this rating.
UHC coverage
44/100
2023
Physicians
0.29/1k
2022
Hospital beds
4.90/1k
2023
Out of pocket
52%
2023
Outcome signals
Life expectancy
65.1 yrs
2024
Maternal mortality
328/100k
2023
Neonatal mortality
22.6/1k
2024
International patient readiness
LimitedThere is visible specialty depth help, but price transparency is still sparse and headline outcomes are less reassuring.
Pricing transparency
LimitedPublished self-pay prices are scarce and few facilities expose web pages we can verify weigh on this rating.
Facility coverage
Self-pay pricing visibility
No verified self-pay prices are published for the tracked facilities in Haiti yet.
This usually reflects low online price transparency rather than a lack of healthcare providers.
Notable facilities
System metrics: World Bank WDI · Updated 2026-06-01
Safety & Governance
Street Safety
Source: Numbeo where a city row is matched; otherwise World Bank WGI and country-level safety context.
Political Stability
World Bank WGI scale: -2.5 to +2.5.
Wages by Sector
| Sector | Median |
|---|---|
| Administrative & Support Services | — |
| Agriculture & Farming | — |
| Arts, Entertainment & Recreation | — |
| Construction | — |
| Education | — |
| Finance & Insurance | — |
| Healthcare & Social Work | — |
| Hospitality & Food Service | — |
| Information & Technology | — |
| Manufacturing | — |
| Mining & Quarrying | — |
| Other Services | — |
| Professional & Scientific Services | — |
| Public Administration & Defence | — |
| Real Estate | — |
| Retail & Wholesale Trade | — |
| Transport & Logistics | — |
| Utilities | — |
2024 annual wages in Les Cayes, Haiti · Source: GDP-derived estimate (national)
Price Comparison vs. US
Visa Information (US passport)
Short-stay entry
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Quick comparison FAQ
Structured from the deltas already shown on this page — no invented facts, no extra data sources.
How far does your money go in Les Cayes compared with the US?
Your money goes about 1.5x further in Les Cayes than in the US, based on the current PPP estimate.
About Les Cayes
Les Cayes is the principal city of southern Haiti, sitting on the Caribbean coast at the western end of the country's southern peninsula roughly 200 kilometers southwest of Port-au-Prince. It is a service and trade center for the surrounding coffee, vetiver, and fishing economy and historically a major port for the southwest. French and Haitian Creole are essential, with Creole dominant in daily life and English largely confined to NGO and aviation contexts. The relocation reality is shaped sharply by Haiti's broader security and political crisis, which has intensified since 2021, alongside repeated impacts from the August 2021 earthquake and successive hurricanes across the southern peninsula. Realistically, this is not a general expatriate relocation destination; access is largely tied to humanitarian, diplomatic, or diaspora work. The climate is tropical with a wet season from April to November and active hurricane risk.
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