Cost of Living in Jersey
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Purchasing Power vs. United States
Based on GDP per capita (PPP). Jersey: $67,000/capita.
Cities in Jersey
Income Category
GDP per Capita
Population
How Far Your Money Goes
Prices are 9% lower than the global benchmark (New York City = 100).
Child Education
Public-schooling rules are not sourced for Jersey yet. Country-level enrollment, instruction-language, and homeschool notes will appear here once verified.
Childcare & Domestic Help
Nanny, housekeeper, and driver pricing is not yet sourced for Jersey. We publish this section only when we can tie it to verified local samples or a clearly marked country fallback.
Healthcare
System strength, outcome signals, facility coverage, and self-pay visibility in Jersey.
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
StrongHigh national coverage, strong doctor availability, and deep nursing capacity support this rating.
Public care
StrongBroad public coverage, strong public funding, and relatively low patient cost-sharing support this rating.
Private care
MixedA clearly private facility base and visible specialty depth help, but the tracked private-style network still looks thin and self-pay pricing transparency is still sparse.
UHC coverage
88/100
2023
Physicians
3.30/1k
2023
Hospital beds
2.42/1k
2022
Out of pocket
15%
2024
Outcome signals
Life expectancy
81.4 yrs
2024
Maternal mortality
8/100k
2023
Neonatal mortality
3.0/1k
2024
International patient readiness
MixedA visible private hospital base and there is visible specialty depth help, but price transparency is still sparse.
Pricing transparency
LimitedPublished self-pay prices are scarce weigh on this rating.
Facility coverage
Self-pay pricing visibility
No verified self-pay prices are published for the tracked facilities in Jersey yet.
This usually reflects low online price transparency rather than a lack of healthcare providers.
Notable facilities
System metrics: Proxy from GBR via World Bank WDI · Updated 2026-07-01
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 | — |
2025 annual wages in Jersey · Source: GDP-derived estimate (from UK)
About Jersey
Jersey is a high-income Crown dependency in Northern Europe, anchored by Saint Helier and a population of 90,812. As the largest Channel Island and a financial services hub, it is not a cheap European relocation play; its profile sits closer to a high-cost, high-infrastructure island economy than to the regional budget end. The useful hook is its low-tax jurisdiction status, which matters for people comparing take-home pay and business structure, but that should be weighed against the limits of a small island in the English Channel. The French-British cultural mix gives Jersey a distinct identity without making it feel remote from nearby Europe. For relocators, the trade-off is clear: compact scale, coastline and finance-sector opportunity, balanced against a narrow market centered heavily on Saint Helier.
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Common questions about Jersey
Sourced from SortaRich's public-data ranking engine — every figure links to its institutional source.
How much does it cost to live in Jersey?
The cost of living in Jersey is about 9% cheaper than the global benchmark (New York City), with an overall cost-of-living index of 91. SortaRich personalizes these numbers to your home city's purchasing power so the comparison is real, not nominal.
Sources: SortaRich Cost of Living, World Bank ICP 2021
How far does $1 go in Jersey?
$1 buys less in Jersey than in the baseline market — Jersey is more expensive on a purchasing-power basis (current PPP ratio: 0.84). The figure adjusts every year as exchange rates and local prices shift. SortaRich uses World Bank ICP 2021 as the anchor and Penn World Tables 11.0 for cross-validation.
Sources: World Bank ICP 2021, Penn World Tables 11.0
What are the best cities to live in Jersey?
The best cities to live in Jersey are Saint Helier — those are the most-searched options among the 1 cities profiled in the SortaRich database. Each city page includes a personalized PPP comparison versus your home city plus subnational price data where available.
Source: SortaRich City Index