549 cities: what you pay vs. who lives there

Rent against the male-to-female ratio at ages 20–39, one dot per city. 128 of 549 are cheaper than the median and have more women than men.

Scatter plot of monthly cost of living against men per 100 women aged 20 to 39 for 549 cities, with the cheap and female-skewed quadrant shaded

Dot area is population. Colour is the same ratio the vertical axis shows, on the site's own 94/100/112 scale — green has more women, red more men.

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What the chart says

Cheap and female-skewed is not rare. 128 of 549 cities sit below the median cost ($1,076) and below 100 men per 100 women. The trade-off most people assume — that a good ratio costs money — does not show up in the data.
Cost explains almost nothing about the ratio. The expensive column runs from 93 to 111; the cheap column runs from 86 to 126. Price sorts cities on comfort, not on demographics.

All 549

The chart only has room to label a few. Here is every one of them, cheapest ratio first.

#	City	Country	Men per 100 women	Cost / mo	Net salary / mo	Population
1	Bulawayo	Zimbabwe	78.9	$548	$300	797,611
2	Butwal	Nepal	79.7	$164	$122	194,335
3	Bishkek	Kyrgyzstan	80.8	$695	$490	1,120,827
4	Pokhara	Nepal	81.0	$304	$180	513,504
5	Beirut	Lebanon	82.2	$1,221	$704	341,725
6	Gweru	Zimbabwe	83.1	$394	$250	213,024
7	Mutare	Zimbabwe	83.6	$705	$250	228,550
8	Punggol	Singapore	83.9	$2,856	$4,212	174,450
9	Kobe	Japan	84.2	$1,167	$1,776	128,149
10	Phuket	Thailand	84.4	$856	$496	416,000
11	San Pedro Sula	Honduras	85.1	$936	$602	845,588
12	New Orleans	United States of America	85.7	$2,455	$4,025	362,701
13	Kampala	Uganda	85.9	$512	$192	1,797,722
14	Salvador	Brazil	86.0	$708	$385	2,417,678
15	Santo Domingo	Ecuador	86.4	$857	$614	441,583
16	Cali	Colombia	87.3	$708	$571	2,228,000
17	Tegucigalpa	Honduras	87.4	$976	$616	1,342,325
18	Cusco	Peru	87.6	$456	$431	428,450
19	Tbilisi	Georgia	87.6	$897	$655	1,108,717
20	Washington	United States of America	87.8	$3,391	$7,053	678,972
21	Almaty	Kazakhstan	87.9	$990	$799	2,292,055
22	San Salvador	El Salvador	87.9	$1,303	$380	334,416
23	Pattaya	Thailand	88.0	$694	$461	120,000
24	Tirana	Albania	88.0	$1,007	$876	598,176
25	Harare	Zimbabwe	88.6	$832	$400	1,957,108
26	Kwekwe	Zimbabwe	88.6	$603	$300	130,350
27	Paris	France	89.0	$2,195	$3,565	2,103,778
28	Kisumu	Kenya	89.2	$455	$775	397,957
29	Loja	Ecuador	89.5	$423	$491	250,028
30	Santa Ana	El Salvador	89.7	$689	$450	249,855
31	Addis Ababa	Ethiopia	89.7	$1,075	$204	3,860,000
32	Warsaw	Poland	90.0	$1,749	$2,194	1,863,578
33	Yerevan	Armenia	90.0	$1,110	$660	1,098,866
34	Lusaka	Zambia	90.1	$643	$328	2,397,384
35	Fukuoka	Japan	90.2	$883	$1,535	1,603,043
36	Sunshine Coast	Australia	90.4	$1,833	$3,498	284,131
37	Riobamba	Ecuador	90.5	$311	$334	260,882
38	Santo Domingo	Dominican Republic	90.6	$858	$615	1,029,110
39	Ulaanbaatar	Mongolia	90.7	$790	$590	1,466,431
40	Cluj-Napoca	Romania	90.8	$1,193	$1,348	325,408
41	San Miguel	El Salvador	91.1	$953	$390	214,068
42	León	Nicaragua	91.2	$974	$559	211,278
43	Tripoli	Lebanon	91.2	$413	$244	243,833
44	Fortaleza	Brazil	91.3	$629	$474	2,428,708
45	Philadelphia	United States of America	91.3	$2,442	$4,768	1,550,542
46	Recife	Brazil	91.8	$659	$420	1,488,920
47	Meknes	Morocco	91.8	$408	$490	526,000
48	Managua	Nicaragua	91.8	$676	$353	1,055,247
49	London	United Kingdom	91.9	$3,799	$4,391	8,799,800
50	Hua Hin	Thailand	92.0	$671	$464	85,000
51	Edinburgh	United Kingdom	92.0	$2,432	$3,542	506,520
52	Yangon	Myanmar	92.0	$454	$279	3,124,092
53	Merida	Venezuela	92.1	$1,105	$619	226,000
54	Chisinau	Moldova	92.2	$1,033	$855	567,000
55	Koh Samui	Thailand	92.2	$774	$396	65,210
56	Manta	Ecuador	92.4	$534	$481	271,145
57	Helsinki	Finland	92.5	$1,793	$3,180	694,392
58	Rabat	Morocco	92.7	$599	$733	516,000
59	Sapporo	Japan	92.8	$968	$1,724	1,970,277
60	Cuenca	Ecuador	92.8	$671	$546	596,101
61	Ndola	Zambia	92.9	$593	$600	676,203
62	New York City	United States of America	93.1	$4,213	$5,486	8,258,035
63	Cochabamba	Bolivia	93.1	$259	$386	665,482
64	Sibiu	Romania	93.2	$886	$1,157	161,347
65	Arequipa	Peru	93.2	$490	$655	1,142,900
66	Boca Chica	Dominican Republic	93.2	$951	—	167,040
67	Birmingham	United Kingdom	93.2	$2,216	$3,930	1,144,900
68	Portoviejo	Ecuador	93.2	$660	$325	322,925
69	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil	93.3	$942	$596	6,211,223
70	Marrakech	Morocco	93.3	$616	$513	1,150,000
71	Novosibirsk	Russia	93.3	$826	$813	1,633,851
72	Pereira	Colombia	93.4	$859	$570	470,000
73	Hat Yai	Thailand	93.5	$429	$463	399,537
74	Phnom Penh	Cambodia	93.6	$742	$324	2,189,460
75	Fez	Morocco	93.6	$425	$507	1,180,000
76	Machala	Ecuador	93.6	$388	$450	306,309
77	Kraków	Poland	93.8	$1,542	$1,919	814,595
78	Leeds	United Kingdom	93.8	$1,983	$3,180	811,000
79	Seoul	South Korea	93.9	$1,215	$3,180	9,289,813
80	Dalian	China	93.9	$519	$1,097	4,913,879
81	Gdańsk	Poland	94.0	$1,540	$1,914	489,402
82	Copenhagen	Denmark	94.0	$2,589	$4,594	671,714
83	Nairobi	Kenya	94.1	$578	$433	4,397,073
84	Victoria	Canada	94.1	$2,209	$3,082	91,855
85	Nashville	United States of America	94.2	$2,409	$4,518	683,622
86	Hanoi	Vietnam	94.3	$528	$512	8,435,700
87	Nakuru	Kenya	94.3	$432	—	570,674
88	Oradea	Romania	94.3	$794	$938	213,622
89	Brasov	Romania	94.4	$1,096	$1,120	283,043
90	Toowoomba	Australia	94.4	$1,908	$3,940	108,398
91	Tampines	Singapore	94.4	$2,856	$4,212	259,900
92	Quito	Ecuador	94.6	$640	$603	2,679,722
93	Duesseldorf	Germany	94.6	$1,944	$3,758	629,047
94	Montpellier	France	94.6	$1,649	$2,812	310,240
95	Dunedin	New Zealand	94.6	$1,491	$2,589	100,908
96	Poznań	Poland	94.7	$1,321	$1,771	526,051
97	Rosario	Argentina	94.7	$664	$700	948,312
98	Bucharest	Romania	94.8	$1,108	$1,427	2,124,150
99	Novi Sad	Serbia	94.8	$1,100	$1,064	368,967
100	Lima	Peru	94.9	$705	$634	10,004,000
101	Caracas	Venezuela	94.9	$970	$304	2,223,474
102	Zadar	Croatia	95.0	$1,512	$1,430	70,779
103	Wrocław	Poland	95.1	$1,455	$1,835	674,966
104	Cologne	Germany	95.1	$1,889	$3,389	1,073,096
105	Minsk	Belarus	95.1	$814	$939	1,992,862
106	Coimbra	Portugal	95.1	$1,263	$1,356	140,816
107	Wellington	New Zealand	95.1	$2,078	$2,911	201,708
108	Córdoba	Argentina	95.2	$1,001	$667	1,565,112
109	Timisoara	Romania	95.2	$918	$1,222	296,936
110	Constanta	Romania	95.2	$1,099	$986	295,767
111	Cairns	Australia	95.2	$2,143	$4,413	153,181
112	Nice	France	95.2	$1,901	$2,627	357,737
113	Uppsala	Sweden	95.3	$1,582	$3,137	248,016
114	Temuco	Chile	95.4	$827	$546	292,518
115	Antigua Guatemala	Guatemala	95.4	$1,095	$546	61,360
116	Riga	Latvia	95.5	$1,335	$1,521	588,911
117	Osaka	Japan	95.6	$995	$1,883	2,752,024
118	Guayaquil	Ecuador	95.6	$800	$590	2,746,403
119	East London	South Africa	95.6	$762	$1,640	975,249
120	São Paulo	Brazil	95.7	$891	$855	11,451,999
121	Boston	United States of America	95.7	$3,935	$6,184	650,706
122	Dakar	Senegal	95.7	$1,076	$403	3,186,088
123	Cardiff	United Kingdom	95.9	$2,124	$3,261	362,400
124	Saint Petersburg	Russia	95.9	$1,002	$1,162	5,597,763
125	San Miguel de Tucumán	Argentina	96.0	$710	—	605,767
126	Agadir	Morocco	96.0	$484	$545	504,768
127	Liverpool	United Kingdom	96.0	$1,977	$3,271	486,100
128	Limerick	Ireland	96.0	$2,595	$3,316	102,287
129	Kyoto	Japan	96.1	$879	$1,903	1,464,890
130	Lyon	France	96.1	$1,639	$3,164	519,127
131	Mombasa	Kenya	96.2	$435	$319	1,208,333
132	Mar del Plata	Argentina	96.2	$900	$611	682,605
133	Belfast	United Kingdom	96.2	$1,945	$3,067	345,418
134	Corfu	Greece	96.2	$1,344	$1,176	65,237
135	Krasnodar	Russia	96.2	$851	$836	1,138,654
136	Marseille	France	96.2	$1,578	$2,466	886,040
137	Bangkok	Thailand	96.3	$690	$617	5,186,582
138	Oslo	Norway	96.3	$2,853	$4,279	728,714
139	Kochi	India	96.4	$248	$464	601,574
140	Thessaloniki	Greece	96.4	$1,281	$1,185	319,045
141	Valencia	Venezuela	96.4	$1,802	$1,985	1,791,449
142	Detroit	United States of America	96.4	$1,931	$3,409	620,376
143	Santiago de los Caballeros	Dominican Republic	96.5	$723	$566	771,748
144	Zagreb	Croatia	96.5	$1,467	$1,956	767,131
145	Guatemala City	Guatemala	96.6	$1,024	$852	1,229,215
146	Bloemfontein	South Africa	96.6	$813	$1,300	811,421
147	Amsterdam	Netherlands	96.6	$3,109	$4,731	946,447
148	Cork	Ireland	96.6	$2,944	$4,211	224,004
149	Buenos Aires	Argentina	96.7	$1,325	$842	3,119,304
150	Salta	Argentina	96.7	$823	$850	618,375
151	Cartagena	Colombia	96.8	$1,110	$462	1,028,000
152	Vientiane	Laos	96.8	$727	$265	146,803
153	La Plata	Argentina	96.9	$760	$665	772,618
154	Casablanca	Morocco	96.9	$702	$600	3,230,000
155	Malmö	Sweden	96.9	$1,653	$3,191	365,644
156	Manchester	United Kingdom	97.0	$2,293	$3,239	552,000
157	Chennai	India	97.0	$267	$762	4,646,732
158	Baku	Azerbaijan	97.1	$721	$572	1,311,900
159	Pristina	Kosovo	97.3	$673	$702	204,925
160	Angeles City	Philippines	97.4	$578	$299	462,928
161	Łódź	Poland	97.4	$1,230	$1,667	625,040
162	Kathmandu	Nepal	97.4	$259	$273	862,400
163	Utrecht	Netherlands	97.4	$2,634	$4,465	378,140
164	Chiang Rai	Thailand	97.5	$393	$595	200,000
165	Atlanta	United States of America	97.5	$2,713	$5,195	499,127
166	Lund	Sweden	97.5	$1,456	$3,051	131,590
167	Braga	Portugal	97.6	$1,319	$1,275	193,324
168	Moscow	Russia	97.6	$1,425	$1,717	13,149,803
169	La Paz	Bolivia	97.6	$324	$246	750,225
170	Bordeaux	France	97.6	$1,759	$2,976	267,991
171	Cascais	Portugal	97.7	$1,844	$2,296	214,124
172	Granada	Nicaragua	97.7	$705	$135	132,054
173	Rotorua	New Zealand	97.7	$1,182	$3,836	55,326
174	Florianópolis	Brazil	97.8	$931	$931	537,211
175	Jakarta	Indonesia	97.8	$464	$429	10,562,088
176	Asunción	Paraguay	97.8	$741	$659	521,082
177	Peshawar	Pakistan	97.8	$305	$149	1,905,975
178	Taipei City	Taiwan	97.9	$977	$1,704	2,425,964
179	Brussels	Belgium	97.9	$2,242	$3,236	1,255,834
180	Bariloche	Argentina	98.0	$1,294	$958	135,755
181	Glasgow	United Kingdom	98.0	$2,122	$3,433	622,820
182	Frankfurt am Main	Germany	98.0	$2,207	$4,098	773,068
183	Sendai	Japan	98.0	$886	$875	1,096,704
184	Medan	Indonesia	98.1	$322	$216	2,435,252
185	Strasbourg	France	98.1	$1,754	$3,070	293,771
186	Ho Chi Minh City	Vietnam	98.2	$532	$489	10,545,905
187	Barranquilla	Colombia	98.2	$852	$561	1,206,000
188	Brest	Belarus	98.2	$642	$531	344,470
189	Santa Marta	Colombia	98.3	$928	$527	515,000
190	Madrid	Spain	98.3	$1,993	$2,489	3,477,497
191	Dubrovnik	Croatia	98.3	$1,751	$1,508	41,562
192	Perth	Australia	98.3	$2,507	$4,343	2,384,371
193	Vancouver	Canada	98.4	$2,446	$3,343	662,235
194	Gomel	Belarus	98.4	$520	$517	501,102
195	Porto	Portugal	98.4	$1,640	$1,607	231,800
196	Split	Croatia	98.5	$1,588	$1,652	160,577
197	Rijeka	Croatia	98.5	$1,324	$1,539	107,964
198	Saint-Louis	Senegal	98.5	$2,024	$4,190	254,171
199	Merida	Mexico	98.6	$1,094	$612	1,020,794
200	Montevideo	Uruguay	98.6	$1,436	$1,275	1,302,954
201	Tehran	Iran	98.6	$428	$221	8,693,706
202	Melbourne	Australia	98.6	$2,404	$4,439	5,350,705
203	Hobart	Australia	98.6	$2,379	$4,171	254,930
204	Bogota	Colombia	98.7	$960	$741	7,945,996
205	Lille	France	98.7	$1,604	$3,033	238,246
206	Basel	Switzerland	98.7	$2,911	$7,299	178,891
207	Yogyakarta	Indonesia	98.8	$366	$214	373,589
208	Faro	Portugal	98.8	$1,535	$1,356	67,622
209	Mansoura	Egypt	98.8	$227	$99	570,271
210	Dublin	Ireland	98.8	$3,358	$3,910	592,713
211	Ottawa	Canada	98.9	$2,102	$3,626	1,017,465
212	Iasi	Romania	99.0	$1,004	$1,167	379,371
213	Chicago	United States of America	99.0	$2,701	$4,984	2,664,452
214	Olomouc	Czechia	99.0	$1,253	$1,564	100,523
215	Funchal	Portugal	99.0	$1,923	$1,337	105,782
216	Cape Town	South Africa	99.0	$1,265	$1,591	4,772,355
217	Siem Reap	Cambodia	99.1	$525	$236	225,607
218	Tampa	United States of America	99.1	$2,674	$4,668	398,173
219	Portland	United States of America	99.1	$2,887	$4,682	630,498
220	Toronto	Canada	99.1	$2,327	$3,429	2,794,355
221	Kragujevac	Serbia	99.1	$888	$961	171,186
222	Jimma	Ethiopia	99.1	$740	$231	250,900
223	Jelgava	Latvia	99.2	$843	$1,418	54,408
224	Hyderabad	India	99.2	$311	$1,271	6,809,970
225	Canberra	Australia	99.2	$2,492	$4,369	473,855
226	Barcelona	Venezuela	99.2	$2,062	$2,392	527,421
227	Bristol	United Kingdom	99.3	$2,592	$3,794	472,500
228	Calgary	Canada	99.3	$2,006	$2,991	1,306,800
229	Essaouira	Morocco	99.4	$553	$267	77,966
230	Malaga	Spain	99.4	$1,680	$1,943	597,173
231	Marbella	Spain	99.4	$2,143	$2,116	160,478
232	Panama City	Panama	99.4	$1,507	$931	1,150,444
233	Stockholm	Sweden	99.4	$2,268	$3,635	995,574
234	Wuhan	China	99.5	$487	$1,106	10,494,879
235	Turku	Finland	99.5	$1,525	$2,753	209,633
236	Battambang	Cambodia	99.6	$460	$200	151,827
237	Ayutthaya	Thailand	99.7	$421	$981	136,959
238	Tokyo	Japan	99.8	$1,306	$2,308	9,744,534
239	Surabaya	Indonesia	99.8	$383	$272	2,874,314
240	Heraklion	Greece	99.8	$1,274	$1,147	179,302
241	Semarang	Indonesia	99.8	$357	$190	1,653,524
242	Tauranga	New Zealand	99.8	$1,770	$3,090	152,790
243	Halifax	Canada	99.9	$2,158	$2,762	439,820
244	Hamburg	Germany	99.9	$1,973	$3,558	1,945,532
245	Brisbane	Australia	99.9	$2,245	$4,251	2,780,063
246	Kazan	Russia	99.9	$808	$923	1,318,604
247	Hamilton	New Zealand	99.9	$2,029	$2,909	174,741
248	Gaziantep	Turkey	100.0	$487	$1,135	2,222,415
249	Boquete	Panama	100.0	$1,143	$800	19,000
250	Newcastle	Australia	100.0	$2,292	$3,082	505,489
251	Batam	Indonesia	100.0	$375	$343	1,196,396
252	Quetta	Pakistan	100.0	$248	$270	1,565,546
253	Ankara	Turkey	100.1	$970	$1,132	5,910,320
254	Rawalpindi	Pakistan	100.1	$333	$174	3,363,000
255	Jerusalem	Israel	100.1	$2,486	$4,019	1,050,153
256	Banská Bystrica	Slovakia	100.2	$998	$1,111	73,054
257	Örebro	Sweden	100.2	$1,345	$3,273	160,140
258	Multan	Pakistan	100.2	$365	$183	2,200,000
259	The Hague	Netherlands	100.2	$2,436	$4,297	549,163
260	Baguio City	Philippines	100.3	$558	$185	366,358
261	Medellin	Colombia	100.3	$1,178	$619	2,526,795
262	La Serena	Chile	100.3	$796	$729	250,141
263	Prague	Czechia	100.3	$1,767	$2,343	1,384,732
264	Bratislava	Slovakia	100.3	$1,575	$1,712	480,902
265	Bucaramanga	Colombia	100.4	$783	$570	613,000
266	Viña del Mar	Chile	100.4	$850	$1,091	334,871
267	Gold Coast	Australia	100.4	$2,484	$4,199	750,997
268	Auckland	New Zealand	100.4	$2,132	$3,100	1,402,275
269	Munich	Germany	100.5	$2,442	$4,110	1,512,491
270	Ashdod	Israel	100.5	$2,276	$4,366	228,562
271	Pula	Croatia	100.6	$1,292	$1,540	52,220
272	Florence	Italy	100.7	$2,028	$2,070	361,705
273	Rotterdam	Netherlands	100.7	$2,764	$4,080	674,485
274	Durban	South Africa	100.8	$856	$1,206	4,239,851
275	Osijek	Croatia	100.8	$1,109	$1,395	96,313
276	Toulouse	France	100.8	$1,580	$2,960	514,819
277	Kristiansand	Norway	100.9	$2,133	$4,133	119,287
278	Houston	United States of America	100.9	$2,393	$4,378	2,304,580
279	Nelson	New Zealand	100.9	$1,484	$2,415	49,224
280	Dallas	United States of America	101.0	$2,526	$4,791	1,302,868
281	Edmonton	Canada	101.0	$1,882	$3,350	1,010,875
282	Iquique	Chile	101.0	$860	$971	199,587
283	Niš	Serbia	101.0	$745	$892	249,501
284	Montreal	Canada	101.1	$1,756	$2,938	1,762,965
285	Hradec Kralove	Czechia	101.1	$1,219	$1,712	92,684
286	Liepaja	Latvia	101.1	$1,016	$1,117	66,746
287	Abidjan	Côte d'Ivoire	101.1	$886	$223	5,016,605
288	Liberec	Czechia	101.2	$1,202	$1,570	104,802
289	Nanjing	China	101.2	$566	$1,371	7,519,814
290	Tartu	Estonia	101.2	$1,329	$1,983	99,913
291	Istanbul	Turkey	101.3	$1,142	$1,240	15,754,053
292	Mbeya	Tanzania	101.3	$266	$189	541,603
293	Alexandria	Egypt	101.3	$253	$144	5,163,750
294	Udon Thani	Thailand	101.3	$384	$769	382,128
295	Hai Phong	Vietnam	101.4	$438	$494	2,088,000
296	Omaha	United States of America	101.4	$2,164	$3,902	486,051
297	Ceske Budejovice	Czechia	101.4	$1,359	$1,610	94,463
298	Yekaterinburg	Russia	101.4	$1,032	$918	1,536,183
299	Geelong	Australia	101.4	$2,290	$3,114	282,809
300	Bern	Switzerland	101.4	$2,797	$6,812	134,591
301	Kuopio	Finland	101.5	$1,447	$2,686	126,572
302	Napier	New Zealand	101.5	$1,990	$3,155	64,695
303	Puerto Princesa	Philippines	101.6	$546	$231	307,079
304	Skopje	North Macedonia	101.6	$833	$889	526,502
305	Seville	Spain	101.7	$1,289	$1,790	688,714
306	Plovdiv	Bulgaria	101.7	$901	$1,142	333,994
307	Wollongong	Australia	101.7	$1,753	$4,426	312,167
308	Tampere	Finland	101.7	$1,583	$2,860	263,337
309	Groningen	Netherlands	101.7	$1,941	$3,131	244,807
310	Antofagasta	Chile	101.8	$731	$722	401,096
311	Berlin	Germany	101.8	$2,190	$3,331	3,850,809
312	Burgas	Bulgaria	101.8	$989	$1,016	195,912
313	Palermo	Italy	101.8	$1,284	$1,589	628,693
314	Podgorica	Montenegro	101.8	$1,076	$1,186	172,139
315	Budva	Montenegro	101.8	$1,269	$1,035	17,479
316	Da Nang	Vietnam	101.9	$583	$352	1,346,940
317	Budapest	Hungary	101.9	$1,345	$1,743	1,685,342
318	Zanzibar City	Tanzania	101.9	$418	$314	219,007
319	Cebu City	Philippines	102.0	$682	$347	964,169
320	Leipzig	Germany	102.0	$1,579	$2,928	601,868
321	Batumi	Georgia	102.0	$748	$574	152,839
322	Bursa	Turkey	102.1	$714	$998	3,263,011
323	Tetovo	North Macedonia	102.1	$716	$903	63,176
324	Antwerp	Belgium	102.2	$1,857	$3,069	565,615
325	Liege	Belgium	102.2	$1,771	$2,862	198,102
326	Haifa	Israel	102.2	$2,072	$4,475	297,082
327	Las Vegas	United States of America	102.3	$2,555	$3,771	641,903
328	Tel Aviv-Yafo	Israel	102.3	$3,198	$4,294	494,900
329	Santiago	Panama	102.4	$987	$793	21,185
330	Nantes	France	102.4	$1,463	$2,964	327,734
331	Mogilev	Belarus	102.5	$565	$796	353,110
332	Umeå	Sweden	102.5	$1,279	$2,789	134,249
333	Tallinn	Estonia	102.5	$1,535	$2,224	452,563
334	Los Angeles	United States of America	102.6	$3,629	$4,480	3,820,914
335	Valencia	Spain	102.6	$1,778	$1,959	841,558
336	Pecs	Hungary	102.6	$1,086	$1,097	139,330
337	Grodno	Belarus	102.6	$623	$767	361,115
338	Chiang Mai	Thailand	102.7	$565	$589	1,260,000
339	Adana	Turkey	102.7	$592	$792	2,283,609
340	Chengdu	China	102.7	$501	$1,264	13,568,357
341	Chongqing	China	102.7	$425	$1,114	9,580,819
342	Bacolod City	Philippines	102.7	$536	$214	600,783
343	Iloilo City	Philippines	102.8	$495	$206	457,626
344	Mendoza	Argentina	102.8	$907	$733	115,041
345	Jurmala	Latvia	102.8	$1,477	$1,139	52,926
346	Metro Manila	Philippines	102.9	$689	$469	11,637,949
347	Minneapolis	United States of America	102.9	$2,319	$4,153	429,954
348	Bergen	Norway	102.9	$2,294	$4,451	294,860
349	Nagoya	Japan	102.9	$940	$1,876	2,330,178
350	Havana	Cuba	102.9	$691	$33	2,137,847
351	Vienna	Austria	102.9	$2,034	$3,429	2,028,289
352	Antalya	Turkey	103.0	$878	$952	2,777,677
353	Townsville	Australia	103.0	$2,338	$4,109	173,724
354	Quebec City	Canada	103.1	$1,518	$2,869	549,450
355	Plzen	Czechia	103.1	$1,384	$1,928	175,219
356	Shiraz	Iran	103.1	$401	$233	1,565,572
357	Ventspils	Latvia	103.2	$924	$1,015	32,479
358	Pardubice	Czechia	103.3	$1,234	$1,493	91,727
359	Barysaw	Belarus	103.3	$1,732	$1,950	134,732
360	Salzburg	Austria	103.3	$2,298	$3,359	157,659
361	Netanya	Israel	103.3	$2,122	$3,215	234,813
362	Puerto Plata	Dominican Republic	103.4	$707	—	162,093
363	Winnipeg	Canada	103.4	$1,771	$2,486	749,600
364	Palma de Mallorca	Spain	103.4	$1,953	$2,069	443,196
365	Martin	Slovakia	103.4	$1,144	$1,528	50,153
366	Athens	Greece	103.4	$1,432	$1,334	643,452
367	Nitra	Slovakia	103.5	$1,121	$1,502	75,301
368	Slavonski Brod	Croatia	103.5	$906	$1,525	49,891
369	Stavanger	Norway	103.5	$2,548	$4,987	151,669
370	Vladivostok	Russia	103.5	$1,050	$857	594,000
371	Izmir	Turkey	103.6	$883	$1,136	4,504,185
372	Helsingborg	Sweden	103.6	$1,472	$2,997	152,091
373	Shkodër	Albania	103.6	$708	$577	102,434
374	Yokohama	Japan	103.6	$988	$2,692	3,777,491
375	Christchurch	New Zealand	103.6	$1,840	$2,743	380,079
376	Lausanne	Switzerland	103.7	$3,205	$6,651	140,202
377	Miami	United States of America	103.8	$3,413	$4,432	442,241
378	Concepción	Chile	103.8	$837	$566	230,375
379	Tabriz	Iran	103.8	$283	$233	1,558,693
380	Varna	Bulgaria	103.9	$1,075	$1,208	331,260
381	Prešov	Slovakia	103.9	$975	$1,306	81,223
382	George	South Africa	104.0	$893	$1,340	294,923
383	Giza	Egypt	104.0	$279	$133	8,632,021
384	Manado	Indonesia	104.1	$290	$213	451,916
385	Taichung City	Taiwan	104.1	$689	$1,389	2,867,468
386	Bilbao	Spain	104.1	$1,830	$2,351	350,975
387	Subotica	Serbia	104.1	$854	$906	123,952
388	Denver	United States of America	104.2	$2,713	$4,487	713,252
389	Stuttgart	Germany	104.2	$1,906	$4,114	626,275
390	Nicosia	Cyprus	104.2	$1,551	$1,925	111,797
391	Limassol	Cyprus	104.2	$2,383	$2,692	108,105
392	Larnaca	Cyprus	104.2	$1,419	$1,966	52,038
393	Barcelona	Spain	104.3	$2,036	$2,361	1,713,247
394	Phoenix	United States of America	104.4	$2,526	$4,440	1,650,070
395	Valparaíso	Chile	104.4	$915	$771	284,938
396	Sofia	Bulgaria	104.4	$1,301	$1,707	1,303,813
397	Rome	Italy	104.4	$1,730	$1,982	2,747,290
398	Mexico City	Mexico	104.5	$1,250	$1,048	9,020,812
399	Tangier	Morocco	104.5	$690	$515	1,270,000
400	Patras	Greece	104.5	$1,071	$1,179	215,922
401	General Santos	Philippines	104.6	$444	—	697,315
402	Denpasar	Indonesia	104.7	$371	$279	725,314
403	Alicante	Spain	104.7	$1,530	$1,945	365,586
404	Tashkent	Uzbekistan	104.7	$693	$721	3,112,748
405	San Antonio	United States of America	104.7	$1,985	$4,234	1,451,853
406	Lugano	Switzerland	104.7	$2,912	$6,844	63,668
407	Galway	Ireland	104.7	$3,076	$3,113	85,910
408	Colonia del Sacramento	Uruguay	104.8	$1,326	—	32,174
409	Heredia	Costa Rica	104.8	$1,370	$1,354	133,143
410	Bologna	Italy	104.8	$1,899	$2,200	390,151
411	Kaliningrad	Russia	104.8	$873	$824	489,000
412	Cagayan de Oro	Philippines	104.8	$578	$317	728,402
413	Zürich	Switzerland	104.8	$3,949	$8,336	443,037
414	Odense	Denmark	104.8	$1,759	$3,978	213,168
415	Can Tho	Vietnam	104.9	$307	$160	1,236,000
416	Brno	Czechia	104.9	$1,530	$1,904	397,153
417	Naples	Italy	105.0	$1,556	$1,897	909,013
418	Hyderabad	Pakistan	105.0	$279	$172	1,921,275
419	Ljubljana	Slovenia	105.0	$1,807	$2,026	302,826
420	Sydney	Australia	105.1	$2,738	$4,218	5,557,233
421	Davao City	Philippines	105.2	$550	$217	1,776,949
422	Kota Kinabalu	Malaysia	105.3	$523	$584	500,400
423	Göteborg	Sweden	105.3	$1,701	$3,690	608,993
424	Taoyuan City	Taiwan	105.4	$728	$1,504	2,356,618
425	Catania	Italy	105.4	$1,243	$1,904	298,054
426	Port Moresby	Papua New Guinea	105.4	$1,157	$437	756,754
427	Busan	South Korea	105.5	$982	$2,572	3,232,370
428	Szeged	Hungary	105.5	$925	$1,313	158,797
429	Guadalajara	Mexico	105.6	$1,065	$785	1,386,883
430	Kunming	China	105.8	$444	$859	5,273,144
431	Nha Trang	Vietnam	105.9	$511	$291	535,000
432	Usti nad Labem	Czechia	105.9	$1,102	$1,524	92,923
433	Kolkata	India	105.9	$250	$389	4,496,694
434	Jyväskylä	Finland	105.9	$1,471	$3,008	149,895
435	Ostrava	Czechia	106.0	$1,194	$1,731	279,530
436	Johannesburg	South Africa	106.0	$1,130	$1,694	4,803,109
437	Pretoria	South Africa	106.0	$1,075	$1,451	4,039,962
438	Žilina	Slovakia	106.1	$1,148	$1,403	79,873
439	Kaohsiung City	Taiwan	106.2	$696	$1,478	2,709,973
440	Gyor	Hungary	106.2	$1,028	$1,401	127,599
441	Daugavpils	Latvia	106.2	$936	$1,133	77,486
442	Graz	Austria	106.2	$1,791	$3,158	305,314
443	Dar es Salaam	Tanzania	106.3	$440	$279	5,383,728
444	Innsbruck	Austria	106.4	$2,176	$2,920	132,499
445	Xi'an	China	106.5	$426	$1,067	9,392,938
446	Ohrid	North Macedonia	106.5	$640	$642	38,818
447	Puerto Vallarta	Mexico	106.6	$1,395	$919	308,300
448	Drammen	Norway	106.6	$1,964	$3,612	106,013
449	Varadero	Cuba	106.6	$1,070	$19	42,654
450	Queenstown	New Zealand	106.6	$2,172	$3,178	25,050
451	Jaipur	India	106.7	$269	$371	3,046,163
452	Bari	Italy	106.7	$1,536	$1,943	315,831
453	Jönköping	Sweden	106.7	$1,400	$2,972	147,654
454	George Town	Malaysia	106.8	$614	$1,074	556,600
455	Hsinchu City	Taiwan	106.8	$718	$2,446	455,755
456	Espoo	Finland	106.8	$1,786	$3,256	325,716
457	Lahti	Finland	106.9	$1,580	$2,593	121,832
458	Cienfuegos	Cuba	106.9	$982	$38	178,368
459	Trinidad	Cuba	107.2	$1,137	—	76,500
460	Punta del Este	Uruguay	107.6	$1,534	$1,131	11,128
461	Nuremberg	Germany	107.6	$1,653	$3,711	518,365
462	Bitola	North Macedonia	107.6	$596	$782	69,287
463	Prilep	North Macedonia	107.6	$525	$616	63,308
464	Nakhon Ratchasima	Thailand	107.6	$460	$611	334,416
465	Liberia	Costa Rica	107.7	$886	$879	86,564
466	Bandung	Indonesia	107.8	$356	$283	2,444,160
467	Incheon	South Korea	108.0	$870	$2,225	3,061,002
468	Panaji	India	108.0	$282	$188	40,017
469	Linz	Austria	108.1	$1,731	$2,923	213,557
470	San Francisco	United States of America	108.3	$4,016	$7,600	808,437
471	Tainan City	Taiwan	108.3	$681	$1,345	1,848,108
472	San Jose	Costa Rica	108.5	$1,476	$1,046	364,062
473	Berat	Albania	108.5	$625	$490	62,232
474	Monterrey	Mexico	108.6	$1,334	$1,120	1,168,978
475	Ruse	Bulgaria	108.7	$761	$998	136,112
476	Karachi	Pakistan	108.8	$300	$175	18,868,021
477	Cairo	Egypt	108.9	$442	$210	9,539,673
478	Vilnius	Lithuania	109.0	$1,412	$1,974	642,450
479	Seattle	United States of America	109.1	$3,250	$6,597	755,078
480	Austin	United States of America	109.2	$2,302	$5,050	979,882
481	Kaunas	Lithuania	109.2	$1,175	$1,702	304,198
482	Colombo	Sri Lanka	109.2	$497	$239	752,993
483	Ålesund	Norway	109.4	$2,011	$4,214	59,663
484	Beijing	China	109.5	$891	$1,568	18,960,744
485	Qingdao	China	109.5	$452	$1,199	6,165,279
486	Reykjavik	Iceland	109.5	$3,211	$4,705	139,804
487	Turin	Italy	109.8	$1,533	$2,007	853,196
488	Miskolc	Hungary	109.9	$936	$1,232	147,533
489	Trondheim	Norway	109.9	$2,395	$4,272	218,460
490	Da Lat	Vietnam	110.0	$495	$422	406,000
491	Genoa	Italy	110.0	$1,514	$2,151	564,080
492	Sarajevo	Bosnia and Herzegovina	110.0	$928	$1,069	275,524
493	Banja Luka	Bosnia and Herzegovina	110.0	$914	$909	138,963
494	Mostar	Bosnia and Herzegovina	110.0	$708	$878	113,169
495	Tuzla	Bosnia and Herzegovina	110.0	$655	$952	110,979
496	Pune	India	110.1	$370	$1,100	3,124,458
497	Milan	Italy	110.1	$2,221	$2,235	1,365,698
498	Debrecen	Hungary	110.4	$1,128	$1,273	199,858
499	Suwon	South Korea	110.5	$885	$2,255	1,185,770
500	Koper	Slovenia	110.6	$1,529	$1,628	25,753
501	Oulu	Finland	110.7	$1,482	$2,581	217,469
502	Bengaluru	India	110.9	$368	$806	8,443,675
503	Aalborg	Denmark	110.9	$1,783	$4,131	221,082
504	San Diego	United States of America	111.1	$3,878	$5,316	1,388,320
505	Dresden	Germany	111.3	$1,541	$3,155	554,649
506	Klaipeda	Lithuania	111.7	$1,023	$1,580	160,979
507	Daegu	South Korea	112.1	$973	$2,225	2,348,165
508	Playa del Carmen	Mexico	112.2	$948	$662	396,286
509	Linköping	Sweden	112.9	$1,482	$2,753	168,035
510	Delhi	India	113.3	$347	$546	16,787,941
511	Eindhoven	Netherlands	113.5	$2,448	$4,084	249,054
512	Accra	Ghana	113.6	$798	$175	1,782,150
513	San Jose	United States of America	114.3	$3,837	$6,483	971,233
514	Santiago	Chile	114.4	$974	$782	438,856
515	Sihanoukville	Cambodia	114.5	$632	—	71,082
516	Shanghai	China	114.5	$892	$1,711	21,909,814
517	Chania	Greece	114.8	$1,274	$1,341	111,375
518	Hangzhou	China	115.1	$646	$1,449	9,236,032
519	Xiamen	China	115.2	$502	$1,132	4,617,251
520	Zhuhai	China	115.7	$520	$1,052	2,207,090
521	Honolulu	United States of America	116.4	$3,433	$4,124	350,964
522	Guangzhou	China	116.7	$572	$1,281	16,096,724
523	Sanya	China	117.8	$609	$887	724,854
524	Vaasa	Finland	118.1	$1,540	$3,688	71,209
525	Tianjin	China	119.3	$538	$1,159	11,052,404
526	Kuala Lumpur	Malaysia	120.6	$698	$1,542	1,982,100
527	Maribor	Slovenia	121.3	$1,288	$1,927	97,522
528	Mumbai	India	121.9	$593	$776	12,442,373
529	Ipoh	Malaysia	124.4	$517	$952	888,800
530	Lagos	Nigeria	124.9	$797	$118	12,941,672
531	Amman	Jordan	125.3	$767	$708	4,311,387
532	Johor Bahru	Malaysia	125.6	$678	$1,070	1,711,200
533	Shenzhen	China	128.0	$723	$1,721	17,444,609
534	Dhaka	Bangladesh	130.7	$263	$276	18,113,283
535	Kano	Nigeria	131.1	$168	—	4,458,489
536	Valletta	Malta	132.9	$2,135	$2,087	5,226
537	Birkirkara	Malta	132.9	$1,640	$1,936	30,166
538	Sliema	Malta	132.9	$2,168	$1,873	22,224
539	Rhodes	Greece	134.5	$1,354	$1,370	125,113
540	Abuja	Nigeria	136.5	$870	$167	3,102,803
541	Kuwait City	Kuwait	178.0	$1,164	$2,072	55,159
542	Hawalli	Kuwait	178.0	$896	$1,860	926,170
543	Fintas	Kuwait	178.0	$367	$640	447,009
544	Ahmadi	Kuwait	178.0	$926	$3,536	28,612
545	Dubai	United Arab Emirates	208.9	$2,303	$3,441	3,570,099
546	Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates	208.9	$1,957	$2,930	1,750,000
547	Sharjah	United Arab Emirates	208.9	$1,472	$2,205	1,610,000
548	Al Ain	United Arab Emirates	208.9	$1,398	$2,836	690,000
549	Ajman	United Arab Emirates	208.9	$1,980	$2,246	557,071

Ratio is men per 100 women aged 20–39 from the city's own census age×sex arrays — never a country figure standing in for a city. Cost is a single person including rent. Salary is net monthly, where Numbeo publishes one.

Sources

Age by sex: national statistics offices per market — methodology. Cost: Numbeo, single person including rent, July 2026.

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