01
Coste de vida
$1741/mo
US · WASHINGTONDatos locales
Vivir en Washington, D.C..
The capital, and the smallest and cheapest of the three US cities here — a walkable, transit-served city with clean air and the fewest comfortable months of the year, because its summers are genuinely hot and humid.
Verificado
Población 693.645
· America/New_York· Se aplican las normas de United States
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 jul 2025
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Notas
- The District of Columbia is simultaneously the city, the county and the federal district, so the city boundary and the statistical unit are the same thing. The wider Washington-Arlington-Alexandria metropolitan area, spilling into Virginia and Maryland, holds about 6.3 million.
US · WASHINGTON
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Vista rápida
Las cifras principales de Washington, D.C., cada una con su fuente y su frescura. Una cifra oficial viva no es lo mismo que una estimación de encuesta ni que una normal climática de 30 años.
5.0/10
02
Alquiler, 1–3 dorm.
$1730–$3784
/mes
03
Impuestos del autónomo
18,1%
Seguridad
4.7/105,1/100k
Calidad del aire
9.4/106,4 µg/m³
Internet
6.4/1085 Mbps
Inglés
10.0/10Native
Sanidad privada
0.0/10$8892/yr
Qué significan las etiquetasoficial — cifra viva de un gobierno o una autoridaddatos abiertos — conjunto de datos abierto (Eurostat, AEMA, M-Lab, UdSC…)encuesta — estimación de una encuesta o un índicerecopilado — estimación montada por SettleMetric: abre la fuente para ver el método
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Lo que te cuesta al mes
Una estimación para planificar: alquiler de oferta real más una cesta de coste de vida ajustada a tu hogar. No es un presupuesto en firme.
Hogar
Estilo de vida
Zona
Total estimado
$3469/mes
≈ $41.628 / año
En qué se va
- Alquiler (1 dorm.)$1730
- Transport$462
- Food & non-alcoholic drinks$216
- Health (out-of-pocket + insurance)$215
- Recreation, culture & education$184
- Household goods, services & furnishings$181
- Utilities (electricity, gas, water, fuels)$164
- Restaurants & eating out$137
- Personal care & clothing$103
- Miscellaneous$42
- Alcohol & tobacco$35
- Gastos corrientes$1739
El alquiler sale de la matriz de alquileres de oferta de abajo. Los gastos corrientes escalan una cesta de una persona ($1739/mes) según el tamaño del hogar y el estilo de vida; los factores de equivalencia son un supuesto nuestro. No se incluyen colegios ni gastos únicos de instalación.
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Coste de vida
Lo que gasta al mes una persona sola —comida, suministros, transporte, comer fuera y lo demás—, sin contar el alquiler.
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- Each 2024 all-consumer-unit annual category mean divided by 2.4 persons and 12 months, on the same basis as the headline figure. Transport $13,318; food at home $6,224; healthcare $6,197; entertainment $3,609 + education $1,569 + reading $125; housing less shelter and utilities $5,213; utilities $4,736; food away from home $3,945; personal care $978 + apparel $2,001; miscellaneous $1,218; alcohol $643 + tobacco $352. Shelter, pensions and cash contributions are excluded. Items sum to $1,739, two dollars below the headline through rounding.
- Notas
- Transport is the largest line and the one that most surprises people arriving from Europe: it is dominated by vehicle purchase, insurance and fuel, because outside a handful of cities a car is not optional. Health at $215 a month per person is roughly three times the European entries in this dataset, and that is out-of-pocket spending on top of insurance premiums, not instead of them.
01Transport462 USD
02Food & non-alcoholic drinks216 USD
03Health (out-of-pocket + insurance)215 USD
04Recreation, culture & education184 USD
05Household goods, services & furnishings181 USD
06Utilities (electricity, gas, water, fuels)164 USD
07Restaurants & eating out137 USD
08Personal care & clothing103 USD
09Miscellaneous42 USD
10Alcohol & tobacco35 USD
Cesta de gasto de un hogar de una persona en United States, sin contar el alquiler. Lo que no es alquiler varía poco entre ciudades; la parte propia de cada ciudad es el alquiler, que aparece más abajo en Vivienda.
01Cost of living (single, excl. rent)a nivel de país1741USD/month, single person, excluding rent5.0
Qué mide esto
Monthly cost of a defined single-person basket (food, transport, utilities, mobile+internet, modest leisure) excluding rent, curated from national statistics office price data and large local retailers' published prices, converted to USD at the ECB rate recorded in fx-rates. The method field of each value itemizes the basket inputs.
Cuanto más bajo, mejorUSD/month, single person, excluding rentse vuelve a verificar cada 365 días
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- Consumer Expenditure Survey 2024, all consumer units: average annual expenditures $78,535 across an average 2.4 persons. Removing shelter ($16,317, the rent-equivalent line), personal insurance and pensions ($9,797, which is saving rather than consumption) and cash contributions ($2,292, which are transfers) leaves $50,129 of consumption. Divided by 2.4 people and by 12 months = $1,740.59 per person per month.
- Notas
- Per-capita basis, to match how Italy, Spain, Czechia, Austria and France are computed in this dataset. The BLS also publishes the real one-person consumer unit, which is what a solo mover actually faces: $48,794 a year, or $29,359 after removing the same three lines — about $2,447 a month excluding rent, 41% above the per-capita figure because a person living alone has no household economies of scale. Read $1,741 as the comparable cross-country number and $2,447 as the realistic personal one. Both include US health spending, which is why every line involving healthcare runs far above the European entries.
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Vivienda
Lo que cuesta alquilar, por tipo de vivienda y zona.
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 21 may 2026
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- For each apartment size, the 46 District of Columbia ZIP codes were sorted by that size's FY2026 Small Area FMR; 'center' is the mean of the priciest quartile (12 ZIPs) and 'outside' the mean of the cheapest quartile. HUD publishes a separate rent for each bedroom count, so no floor-area assumption is required.
- Notas
- Studio and one-bedroom rents in the expensive quarter are almost identical ($2,608 against $2,691) — in central Washington the extra room costs about $80 a month, which is the smallest such step in this dataset and reflects how tight the small-unit market is around the federal core.
| Vivienda | Centro | Fuera del centro |
|---|---|---|
| Estudio | 2608 USD/mes | 1680 USD/mes |
| 1 dormitorio | 2691 USD/mes | 1730 USD/mes |
| 2 dormitorios | 3000 USD/mes | 1930 USD/mes |
| 3 dormitorios | 3784 USD/mes | 2436 USD/mes |
05
Clima
Temperatura y lluvia a lo largo del año, más la calidad del aire.
Datos abiertos
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2020
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- NOAA publishes these normals in Fahrenheit and inches; converted to °C (rounded to 0.1) and mm (rounded to whole millimetres). Reagan National is the reference station for the District even though it sits across the Potomac in Virginia, three miles from the centre.
- Notas
- Hotter than New York in summer and milder in winter: July afternoons average 32°C, and the humidity that goes with them is the city's defining seasonal complaint. Rainfall is even through the year at 67–110mm a month, with no dry season.
Temperatura media de día y de noche (líneas, eje izquierdo) y lluvia total (barras, eje derecho) por mes, con normales de 1991–2020. Pasa el cursor por un mes para ver las cifras exactas.
| ene | feb | mar | abr | may | jun | jul | ago | sept | oct | nov | dic | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Máxima diurna °C | 7.1° | 9.1° | 13.6° | 20.0° | 24.7° | 29.5° | 32.0° | 31.0° | 27.1° | 20.8° | 14.6° | 9.3° |
| Mínima nocturna °C | -1.1° | -0.1° | 3.7° | 9.1° | 14.4° | 19.7° | 22.4° | 21.7° | 17.8° | 11.2° | 5.3° | 1.4° |
| Lluvia mm | 73 | 67 | 89 | 82 | 100 | 107 | 110 | 83 | 100 | 93 | 74 | 87 |
01Climate comfort4pleasant months/year4.0
Qué mide esto
Number of months whose 1991–2020 climate normals satisfy: mean daily maximum between 15°C and 28°C and monthly precipitation under 150mm. Computed from the city's climate-normals indicator; the raw normals are stored alongside so users can judge by their own taste.
Cuanto más alto, mejorpleasant months/yearse vuelve a verificar cada 3650 días
Recopilado por SettleMetric
SettleMetric — computed from the Washington Reagan National 1991–2020 NOAA normals
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2020
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- Months whose 1991–2020 normals have a mean daily maximum of 15–28°C and under 150mm of precipitation: April, May, September, October = 4. June, July and August are excluded for heat (29.5–32°C), November to March for cold. No month is excluded for rain.
- Notas
- The lowest count in this dataset's US coverage, and the metric flatters the city slightly at both ends: it does not account for humidity, which makes a 32°C July afternoon in Washington harder work than a dry 32°C elsewhere.
02Air quality (PM2.5)6,4µg/m³, annual mean PM2.59.4
Qué mide esto
Annual mean fine-particulate (PM2.5) concentration for the city, latest available year. Anchors follow the WHO 2021 guideline (5 µg/m³ → 10) through the EU limit value territory (25 µg/m³ → 2). Preferred source: European Environment Agency city-level air quality data; outside Europe: WHO Ambient Air Quality Database or the national monitoring network.
Cuanto más bajo, mejorµg/m³, annual mean PM2.5se vuelve a verificar cada 730 días
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- Annual arithmetic mean of 6.44 µg/m³ recorded in 2024 at the McMillan NCore-PAMS site, the District's single regulatory PM2.5 monitor with full-year coverage (97% observation completeness, no exceptional events flagged).
- Notas
- The cleanest air of the three US cities here and among the cleanest in this dataset — 1.3× the WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³, well inside the US standard of 9. One monitor is a thin basis for a whole city compared with New York's eight, but the District is small and flat, and the neighbouring monitors in the same EPA dataset agree: Aurora Hills in Arlington, Virginia reads 6.49–6.91 and HU-Beltsville in Prince George's County, Maryland reads 5.61–6.10.
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Seguridad
Cómo de segura es la vida diaria, según estadísticas oficiales de criminalidad.
01Homicide ratea nivel de país5,1intentional homicides per 100,000/year4.7
Qué mide esto
Intentional homicide victims per 100,000 population, latest available year. Country level: UNODC national series. City level: official municipal/police statistics where published; otherwise null (country value shown as country-level).
Cuanto más bajo, mejorintentional homicides per 100,000/yearse vuelve a verificar cada 730 días
Fuente oficial
Bureau of Justice Statistics and FBI — Crime Known to Law Enforcement, 2024 (NCJ 310856), Table 1
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Notas
- 17,420 homicides in 2024, a rate of 5.1 per 100,000 — down sharply from 6.1 in 2023, continuing the retreat from the 2020–21 spike. Still several times the Western European level: Italy records 0.6, and no European country in this dataset is above 1.2. The national figure also hides an enormous internal range: New York State records 2.7 and California 4.2, while several southern states run above 8. Estimated by the BJS/FBI National Incident-Based Reporting System Estimation Program from agencies covering about 96% of the population.
Bureau of Justice Statistics and FBI — Crime Known to Law Enforcement, 2024 (NCJ 310856), Table 1
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- BJS/FBI NIBRS-estimated rates per 100,000 residents for 2024, relabelled to the categories used across this dataset: theft = larceny-theft, serious assault = aggravated assault, sexual violence = rape. Motor vehicle theft, burglary and robbery keep their own names. Drug offences are not published in this table and are therefore absent, unlike the European entries.
- Notas
- The composition is the opposite of the homicide picture: property crime rates are close to Western European levels and falling, while the violent offences that involve a weapon are far higher. Motor vehicle theft at 270.6 per 100,000 is roughly ten times Italy's, and aggravated assault is not comparable across countries at all — the US definition turns on the use or threat of a weapon, whereas most European systems reserve 'serious assault' for actual grievous injury, which is why Italy records 2.0 per 100,000 and the US 263.7. Read the property lines across countries; do not read the assault line.
01Theft1335por 100 000
02Motor vehicle theft271por 100 000
03Serious assault264por 100 000
04Burglary230por 100 000
05Robbery62,5por 100 000
06Sexual violence39,5por 100 000
The composition is the opposite of the homicide picture: property crime rates are close to Western European levels and falling, while the violent offences that involve a weapon are far higher. Motor vehicle theft at 270.6 per 100,000 is roughly ten times Italy's, and aggravated assault is not comparable across countries at all — the US definition turns on the use or threat of a weapon, whereas most European systems reserve 'serious assault' for actual grievous injury, which is why Italy records 2.0 per 100,000 and the US 263.7. Read the property lines across countries; do not read the assault line.
OSCE ODIHR Hate Crime Reporting — United States of America (official police-recorded, FBI)
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Notas
- 13,683 hate crimes recorded by police in 2024, submitted by the FBI, marginally below 2023's 13,829 and up from 8,559 in 2019. Counts are not comparable across countries — the US total dwarfs Italy's 893 largely because the FBI runs a mature national hate-crime collection with statutory reporting, mandatory bias-motivation flags and civil-society coalitions encouraging victims to report, while most European systems capture a fraction of what occurs. Prosecution and sentencing figures are not available: almost all hate crimes in the United States are prosecuted at state and local level, and those courts do not report to ODIHR.
13.683
registrados por la policía
13,683 hate crimes recorded by police in 2024, submitted by the FBI, marginally below 2023's 13,829 and up from 8,559 in 2019. Counts are not comparable across countries — the US total dwarfs Italy's 893 largely because the FBI runs a mature national hate-crime collection with statutory reporting, mandatory bias-motivation flags and civil-society coalitions encouraging victims to report, while most European systems capture a fraction of what occurs. Prosecution and sentencing figures are not available: almost all hate crimes in the United States are prosecuted at state and local level, and those courts do not report to ODIHR.
07
Infraestructura
Velocidad de internet y cómo llegan los paquetes a tu puerta.
01Domestic delivery qualitya nivel de paísExcellent10.0
Qué mide esto
Quality of in-country parcel delivery. excellent = nationwide next-day widely available, dense parcel-locker network, real-time tracking standard; good = 1–3 day delivery, lockers in major cities; basic = reliable but slow (3–7 days), mostly to-door or post-office pickup; poor = unreliable delivery, street addresses often unusable, informal workarounds common. Classified from official service/coverage data of the national postal operator and the two largest private carriers; inputs itemized in each value's method field.
Valorado por categoría—se vuelve a verificar cada 730 días
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ago 2026
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- Classified from carrier service standards: USPS delivers to every address in the country including PO boxes and rural routes, with Priority Mail at 1–3 days and Ground Advantage at 2–5; UPS and FedEx both offer guaranteed next-day air nationwide with real-time tracking as standard; Amazon Logistics reaches a large majority of the population with same-day or next-day delivery. Rated 'excellent' on the strength of nationwide next-day availability and universal address coverage, despite a parcel-locker network that is thinner than Poland's or France's — Amazon Lockers and Hub apartment lockers exist in metros but there is no dense third-party locker estate.
- Notas
- Cash on delivery is effectively extinct in US consumer e-commerce, unlike Italy or Mexico; card or account payment is assumed. Delivery to the door is the default even in apartment buildings, and package theft from doorsteps is a real and widely reported problem in cities.
02International delivery easea nivel de paísSignificant friction4.0
Qué mide esto
Ease of receiving goods from abroad. seamless = major international carriers deliver door-to-door, meaningful duty-free de-minimis threshold, customs clearance predictable in days; minor-friction = carriers present but low de-minimis, extra paperwork or routine delays; significant-friction = frequent customs holds, high brokerage fees, some marketplaces refuse to ship; unreliable = parcels regularly lost or blocked, informal import channels dominate. De-minimis thresholds and clearance rules from the national customs authority (official source, cite the regulation); carrier presence from carriers' official pages.
Valorado por categoría—se vuelve a verificar cada 365 días
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 20 feb 2026
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Notas
- This changed fundamentally in 2025 and is the fact most likely to be out of date in anyone's head. The United States used to have the most generous de minimis threshold in the world — $800 duty- and tax-free per person per day — which made ordering from abroad trivially easy. Executive Order 14324 suspended duty-free de minimis treatment for all countries from 29 August 2025, and Executive Order 14388 continued the suspension in February 2026. Every inbound shipment is now dutiable regardless of value, postal shipments carry duties set by the order, and carriers charge brokerage on top. The carriers themselves are excellent and clearance is quick, so this is friction of cost and paperwork rather than unreliability — but a €40 parcel from Europe now arrives with a bill attached.
03Internet speeda nivel de país84,9Mbps, median fixed download6.4
Qué mide esto
Median fixed-broadband download speed over the trailing 6 months from M-Lab NDT open data (CC0), aggregated at country or city level. Not comparable with Ookla figures (different test methodology) — do not mix sources within this criterion.
Cuanto más alto, mejorMbps, median fixed downloadse vuelve a verificar cada 365 días
Datos abiertos
M-Lab NDT country aggregates for the United States
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2023
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- Median of the 344 daily country-median download values for US in 2023, which ranged 43.9–89.1 Mbps. M-Lab NDT is a single-stream test and reads well below advertised or Ookla-style figures — comparable only within this criterion. 2023 is the latest full year in M-Lab's public statistics API; the 2024 file stops on 26 March.
- Notas
- The highest reading of any country in this dataset on this metric — roughly three times Italy's — and it reflects a cable and fibre market that competes on headline speed. What the median hides is the price and the choice: monthly costs for gigabit service run well above European levels, and a large share of addresses have exactly one wired provider. Rural coverage remains the weak spot, though federal broadband funding is being deployed against it.
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Sanidad
Lo que cuesta un seguro médico privado completo.
01Private healthcare costa nivel de país8892USD/year, comprehensive private insurance premium, healthy 35-year-old0.0
Qué mide esto
Median of at least three publicly quoted annual premiums for comprehensive private medical insurance (outpatient + inpatient, ~$100k coverage, small deductible) for a healthy 35-year-old resident foreigner, from local and international insurers. Method field lists the insurers quoted.
Cuanto más bajo, mejorUSD/year, comprehensive private insurance premium, healthy 35-year-oldse vuelve a verificar cada 365 días
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 15 ene 2026
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- CMS reports an average monthly premium of $741 before advance premium tax credits across the 23,130,860 people who selected a plan for 2026 through HealthCare.gov and the state exchanges; ×12 = $8,892 a year. Average premium after tax credits is $178 a month.
- Notas
- Basis differs from the other countries here and the difference matters. This is an enrollee-weighted average across all ages and all metal levels, not a quote for a healthy 35-year-old: the marketplace risk pool skews old (41% of enrollees are 45 or over), and the Affordable Care Act lets insurers charge the oldest adults up to three times the youngest, so a 35-year-old pays meaningfully less than $741 a month. No age adjustment was applied because CMS's default uniform age-rating curve was not retrievable at the verification date. Two further caveats: most enrollees do not pay the sticker price — premium tax credits cut the average to $178 a month — and this is individual-market insurance with deductibles and coinsurance on top, not the comprehensive low-deductible cover the other entries quote. Even discounted for all of that, US health cover is the most expensive in this dataset by a wide margin, and it is the single largest fixed cost a freelancer moving to the United States takes on.
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Dinero y cripto
Normas sobre cripto y con qué libertad se mueve el dinero personal.
01Crypto regulationa nivel de paísLegal regulated8.0
Qué mide esto
Own classification of the legal status of holding, trading and cashing out cryptocurrency for individuals: legal-friendly (legal with clear, favourable rules or explicit tax exemptions), legal-regulated (legal under standard licensing/AML and taxation), restricted (partial bans: payments or banking access prohibited), banned (holding/trading prohibited). Classified from national regulators' and central banks' official positions.
Valorado por categoría—se vuelve a verificar cada 180 días
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ago 2026
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Notas
- Holding, trading and spending crypto is legal throughout the United States and banking access is normal. Tax treatment is the friction rather than the legality: digital assets are property, so every disposal — including paying for something in crypto or swapping one token for another — is a taxable event producing capital gain or loss, and every federal return asks a digital-asset question on its first page. Exchanges are regulated at both federal level (FinCEN money-services-business registration and anti-money-laundering rules) and state level (New York's BitLicense is the strictest), and brokers now report customer transactions to the IRS. Classified 'legal-regulated' rather than 'legal-friendly' because nothing about the tax treatment is favourable: there is no de minimis exemption for small payments and no long-term holding relief beyond the ordinary capital-gains rates.
02Financial control levela nivel de paísModerate7.0
Qué mide esto
Own composite of state control over personal money flows: currency/capital controls (IMF AREAER), restrictions on foreign accounts and transfers, mandatory income declaration scope for residents, cash payment limits, banking access for foreigners. Low = free movement of personal funds and easy non-resident banking; very-high = strict capital controls and pervasive reporting. Method field on each value lists the inputs used.
Valorado por categoría—se vuelve a verificar cada 365 días
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ago 2026
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- Composite. No capital or currency controls: the dollar is fully convertible and personal funds move in and out freely, which is the 'low' end of this scale. Against that: reporting is unusually broad. US persons must file an FBAR whenever foreign financial accounts exceed $10,000 in aggregate at any point in the year, FATCA obliges foreign banks worldwide to identify US account holders, currency of $10,000 or more must be declared when crossing the border, and citizens and permanent residents are taxed on worldwide income wherever they live — a rule almost no other country applies. Banking access for a newly arrived foreigner is workable but slow, generally requiring an SSN or ITIN. Rated 'moderate': money moves freely, but it is watched more closely than in most of the countries here, and the tax net follows you out of the country.
- Notas
- The worldwide-taxation rule is the one to understand before taking a green card. Permanent residents remain US taxpayers on global income for as long as they hold the status, whether or not they live in the United States, and formally abandoning it can trigger an expatriation tax.
10
Idioma
Hasta dónde llega el inglés en la vida diaria y en los trámites.
01English proficiencya nivel de paísNative10.0
Qué mide esto
Own banding of how far English gets a resident in daily life (government offices, healthcare, housing, services). Informed by EF EPI band (research source, cited with attribution, not republished) plus official language status and service-sector realities. Values are our bands, not EF scores.
Valorado por categoría—se vuelve a verificar cada 730 días
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 mar 2025
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Notas
- English is the language of government, healthcare, housing and services throughout the country, and since March 2025 it is also the designated official language at federal level — the first such designation in US history. Spanish is a genuine second language of daily life in parts of the south-west, Florida and large cities, and federal agencies still provide multilingual services, but nothing about daily life requires another language.
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Educación
Opciones de colegios internacionales para familias.
01International schoolssin datos verificados—
Qué mide esto
Count of international schools in the metro area accredited by or member of IB, CIS, COBIS, or an equivalent national-curriculum-abroad body (verified against the accreditor's public registry, not aggregator sites).
Cuanto más alto, mejoraccredited international schools, countse vuelve a verificar cada 730 días
Washington almost certainly has an unusually high provision for its size, because a diplomatic capital attracts national schools — but 'almost certainly' is not a number, and the count belongs here only once it can be sourced on the same basis as the other cities.
12
Demografía
Quién más vive aquí: el porcentaje de residentes extranjeros y las mayores comunidades nacionales, según estadísticas oficiales.
Openness to foreignersa nivel de paísMuy abiertaGallup MAI 7,27/9 · 2017
Qué mide esto
How accepting the resident population is of migrants and foreigners — the inverse of xenophobia, a real concern for someone relocating. Our own five-band reading (very-open / open / moderate / reserved / low) informed primarily by the Gallup Migrant Acceptance Index (0–9 scale: three questions on migrants living in the country, becoming neighbours, and marrying into the family; 2019 wave), cross-checked where available with the World Values Survey wave 7 / European Values Study 2017 question on whether people would not want immigrants or foreign workers as neighbours (a higher share = more hostile). Banding guide against the Gallup 0–9 score: ≥7.0 very-open, 5.5–7.0 open, 4.0–5.5 moderate, 2.5–4.0 reserved, below 2.5 low (the 2019 global average of 5.21 sits in 'moderate'). Country level only: no credible city-level survey of attitudes to foreigners exists, so on city pages the country reading is shown as country context. Gallup is a research source cited with attribution, not republished in bulk; the raw index score/year and any cross-check figure are carried inside each value. Value shape: { band, gallupMai?, gallupYear?, unwantedNeighborPct?, unwantedNeighborSource? }. Display-only: attitudinal, survey-based and ~2019 vintage, so it is shown as honest context and never folded into the composite score.
Datos de referencia—se vuelve a verificar cada 1825 días
Estudio
- Datos a fecha de
- 23 ago 2017
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Notas
- Gallup MAI 7.27/9 (US surveyed in 2017) against a global average of 5.29 — in Gallup's top 20 most accepting countries, and the highest reading of any country in this dataset except Spain. Band: very-open. The index measures how comfortable residents say they are with migrants as neighbours, in-laws and fellow citizens, and it long predates the 2025–26 immigration enforcement changes, so treat it as a reading on the population rather than on current policy — which is a very different question and, on the evidence of this dataset's legalization section, a far less welcoming one.
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 mar 2024
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Notas
- 51,280,000 first-generation residents — people born outside the United States — or 15.4% of the population in 2024, the highest share the CPS series has recorded since it began in 2005, up from 12.1% in 2005 and 14.8% in 2023. Basis is BIRTHPLACE, not citizenship: a large majority of the foreign-born are naturalised citizens or permanent residents, so the share of foreign nationals is considerably lower. The American Community Survey gives 14.1% on its 2020–2024 five-year average, which lags because it blends five years.
Recorded as a gap rather than guessed. The data exists and is official — ACS table B05006 breaks the 51 million foreign-born residents down by country of birth — but it is only reachable through the Census Data API, which now rejects requests without a registered key, or through data.census.gov, which renders its tables client-side. Neither is scriptable for us at present. The published summary figures we could read (CPS generation tables, QuickFacts) give totals and shares but no country detail, and substituting an immigration-flow table for a population stock would answer a different question, so the field stays null until the underlying table can be read directly.
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Cómo puedes quedarte
Cómo puedes entrar y quedarte legalmente. Se aplican en todo United States.
Todos los requisitos y filtro por nacionalidad- 01Visa Waiver Program (ESTA) — 90-day business or tourist entryEstancia sin visadoEU citizens, UK citizensCitizenship of one of the 42 countries designated in the Visa Waiver Program by the Department of Homeland Security3 meses
- 02B-1/B-2 visitor visa (business or pleasure)Visado de negociosTodas las nacionalidadesConsular interview at a US embassy or consulate; the applicant must overcome the statutory presumption of immigrant intent by showing ties abroad6 meses +
- 03E-2 treaty investorVisado de negociosTodas las nacionalidadesNationality of a country with which the United States maintains a treaty of commerce and navigation, or a qualifying international agreement — the Department of State maintains the treaty-country list2 años +
- 04O-1A visa — extraordinary ability in the sciences, education, business or athleticsVisado nacionalTodas las nacionalidadesSustained national or international acclaim, evidenced by a major internationally recognised award or by at least three of the regulatory criteria (awards, membership of selective associations, published material about you, judging others' work, original contributions of major significance, scholarly articles, critical employment at distinguished organisations, high remuneration)3 años +
- 05EB-1A green card — extraordinary ability (self-petition)Programa especialTodas las nacionalidadesExtraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business or athletics demonstrated through sustained national or international acclaim10 años +→ vía a la residencia permanente
- 06Diversity Immigrant Visa (green card lottery)Programa especialTodas salvo US citizensBe a native of an eligible country — the Department of State excludes natives of countries that have sent more than 50,000 immigrants to the United States over the previous five years, and republishes the ineligible list with each year's instructions10 años +→ vía a la residencia permanente
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Lo que pagarías en impuestos
Los regímenes fiscales entre los que puede elegir un autónomo. Las normas son nacionales: las mismas en todo United States.
Regímenes completos y calculadora- 01Sole proprietor (Schedule C) — federal tax only11.5% of profit (max 22,878/year) + 2.7% of profit20.4%de carga con 60 000 €
- 02Sole proprietor (Schedule C) — federal + California11.5% of profit (max 22,878/year) + 2.7% of profit23.4%de carga con 60 000 €
- 03Sole proprietor (Schedule C) — federal + New York State + New York City11.5% of profit (max 22,878/year) + 2.7% of profit27.6%de carga con 60 000 €
Mira cuánto te quedaría
Tus ingresos frente a los regímenes fiscales reales de United States, con el mismo motor que la calculadora completa.
- 1 Sole proprietor (Schedule C) — federal tax only47.738 EURneto/año20.4 % de carga
- 2 Sole proprietor (Schedule C) — federal + California45.969 EURneto/año23.4 % de carga
- 3 Sole proprietor (Schedule C) — federal + New York State + New York City43.467 EURneto/año27.6 % de carga
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¿Para quién es Washington, D.C.?
El mismo lugar se lee distinto según por qué te mudes. Cada perspectiva reúne los datos que más importan para ese plan, con sus fuentes y las contrapartidas dichas sin rodeos.
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Freelancer tax burden18,1%
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ene 2026
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- Best eligible scheme us-sole-proprietor-federal at €60,000 = $68,394 (ECB 1.1399 USD/EUR, 2026-07-02) with 10% expenses. Net profit $61,554.60; self-employment tax 15.3% on 92.35% of it = $8,697.38; half deducted, giving AGI $57,205.91; less the $16,100 standard deduction and a §199A deduction of $8,221.18 leaves taxable income $32,884.73, taxed $3,698.17. Total levies $12,395.55 / $68,394 = 18.1%. This is federal tax only, which is the whole story just in the nine states that levy no income tax on earned income.
- Notas
- The single number hides the widest internal spread of any country in this dataset. The same freelancer pays 18.1% in Texas or Florida, 20.5% in California (us-sole-proprietor-california) and 24.4% in New York City (us-sole-proprietor-new-york-city), where state and city income taxes stack on the federal one. Read this figure as the floor available to someone free to choose their state, not as a national average. It also excludes the self-employed health-insurance deduction and retirement contributions, both of which US freelancers use heavily and both of which would lower it.
English proficiencyNative
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 mar 2025
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Notas
- English is the language of government, healthcare, housing and services throughout the country, and since March 2025 it is also the designated official language at federal level — the first such designation in US history. Spanish is a genuine second language of daily life in parts of the south-west, Florida and large cities, and federal agencies still provide multilingual services, but nothing about daily life requires another language.
Domestic delivery qualityExcellent
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ago 2026
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- Classified from carrier service standards: USPS delivers to every address in the country including PO boxes and rural routes, with Priority Mail at 1–3 days and Ground Advantage at 2–5; UPS and FedEx both offer guaranteed next-day air nationwide with real-time tracking as standard; Amazon Logistics reaches a large majority of the population with same-day or next-day delivery. Rated 'excellent' on the strength of nationwide next-day availability and universal address coverage, despite a parcel-locker network that is thinner than Poland's or France's — Amazon Lockers and Hub apartment lockers exist in metros but there is no dense third-party locker estate.
- Notas
- Cash on delivery is effectively extinct in US consumer e-commerce, unlike Italy or Mexico; card or account payment is assumed. Delivery to the door is the default even in apartment buildings, and package theft from doorsteps is a real and widely reported problem in cities.
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Internet speed85 Mbps
M-Lab NDT country aggregates for the United States
Datos abiertos
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2023
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- Median of the 344 daily country-median download values for US in 2023, which ranged 43.9–89.1 Mbps. M-Lab NDT is a single-stream test and reads well below advertised or Ookla-style figures — comparable only within this criterion. 2023 is the latest full year in M-Lab's public statistics API; the 2024 file stops on 26 March.
- Notas
- The highest reading of any country in this dataset on this metric — roughly three times Italy's — and it reflects a cable and fibre market that competes on headline speed. What the median hides is the price and the choice: monthly costs for gigabit service run well above European levels, and a large share of addresses have exactly one wired provider. Rural coverage remains the weak spot, though federal broadband funding is being deployed against it.
Cost of living (single, excl. rent)$1741/mo
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- Consumer Expenditure Survey 2024, all consumer units: average annual expenditures $78,535 across an average 2.4 persons. Removing shelter ($16,317, the rent-equivalent line), personal insurance and pensions ($9,797, which is saving rather than consumption) and cash contributions ($2,292, which are transfers) leaves $50,129 of consumption. Divided by 2.4 people and by 12 months = $1,740.59 per person per month.
- Notas
- Per-capita basis, to match how Italy, Spain, Czechia, Austria and France are computed in this dataset. The BLS also publishes the real one-person consumer unit, which is what a solo mover actually faces: $48,794 a year, or $29,359 after removing the same three lines — about $2,447 a month excluding rent, 41% above the per-capita figure because a person living alone has no household economies of scale. Read $1,741 as the comparable cross-country number and $2,447 as the realistic personal one. Both include US health spending, which is why every line involving healthcare runs far above the European entries.
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Air quality (PM2.5)6,4 µg/m³
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- Annual arithmetic mean of 6.44 µg/m³ recorded in 2024 at the McMillan NCore-PAMS site, the District's single regulatory PM2.5 monitor with full-year coverage (97% observation completeness, no exceptional events flagged).
- Notas
- The cleanest air of the three US cities here and among the cleanest in this dataset — 1.3× the WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³, well inside the US standard of 9. One monitor is a thin basis for a whole city compared with New York's eight, but the District is small and flat, and the neighbouring monitors in the same EPA dataset agree: Aurora Hills in Arlington, Virginia reads 6.49–6.91 and HU-Beltsville in Prince George's County, Maryland reads 5.61–6.10.
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Homicide rate5,1/100k
Bureau of Justice Statistics and FBI — Crime Known to Law Enforcement, 2024 (NCJ 310856), Table 1
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Notas
- 17,420 homicides in 2024, a rate of 5.1 per 100,000 — down sharply from 6.1 in 2023, continuing the retreat from the 2020–21 spike. Still several times the Western European level: Italy records 0.6, and no European country in this dataset is above 1.2. The national figure also hides an enormous internal range: New York State records 2.7 and California 4.2, while several southern states run above 8. Estimated by the BJS/FBI National Incident-Based Reporting System Estimation Program from agencies covering about 96% of the population.
Private healthcare cost$8892/yr
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 15 ene 2026
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- CMS reports an average monthly premium of $741 before advance premium tax credits across the 23,130,860 people who selected a plan for 2026 through HealthCare.gov and the state exchanges; ×12 = $8,892 a year. Average premium after tax credits is $178 a month.
- Notas
- Basis differs from the other countries here and the difference matters. This is an enrollee-weighted average across all ages and all metal levels, not a quote for a healthy 35-year-old: the marketplace risk pool skews old (41% of enrollees are 45 or over), and the Affordable Care Act lets insurers charge the oldest adults up to three times the youngest, so a 35-year-old pays meaningfully less than $741 a month. No age adjustment was applied because CMS's default uniform age-rating curve was not retrievable at the verification date. Two further caveats: most enrollees do not pay the sticker price — premium tax credits cut the average to $178 a month — and this is individual-market insurance with deductibles and coinsurance on top, not the comprehensive low-deductible cover the other entries quote. Even discounted for all of that, US health cover is the most expensive in this dataset by a wide margin, and it is the single largest fixed cost a freelancer moving to the United States takes on.
International schoolssin datos verificados
International Schools Database — city coverage (no Washington page)
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ago 2026
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- Recorded as a gap rather than estimated. The directory used for New York City, Athens, Rome, Milan and Genoa has no Washington page, so the comparable count does not exist. The IB World Schools and Cambridge International registries, which would allow an accreditation-based count instead, answer automated requests with a bot challenge we do not bypass, and the United States has no national register of foreign-curriculum schools.
- Notas
- Washington almost certainly has an unusually high provision for its size, because a diplomatic capital attracts national schools — but 'almost certainly' is not a number, and the count belongs here only once it can be sourced on the same basis as the other cities.
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Crypto regulationLegal regulated
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ago 2026
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Notas
- Holding, trading and spending crypto is legal throughout the United States and banking access is normal. Tax treatment is the friction rather than the legality: digital assets are property, so every disposal — including paying for something in crypto or swapping one token for another — is a taxable event producing capital gain or loss, and every federal return asks a digital-asset question on its first page. Exchanges are regulated at both federal level (FinCEN money-services-business registration and anti-money-laundering rules) and state level (New York's BitLicense is the strictest), and brokers now report customer transactions to the IRS. Classified 'legal-regulated' rather than 'legal-friendly' because nothing about the tax treatment is favourable: there is no de minimis exemption for small payments and no long-term holding relief beyond the ordinary capital-gains rates.
Financial control levelModerate
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ago 2026
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- Composite. No capital or currency controls: the dollar is fully convertible and personal funds move in and out freely, which is the 'low' end of this scale. Against that: reporting is unusually broad. US persons must file an FBAR whenever foreign financial accounts exceed $10,000 in aggregate at any point in the year, FATCA obliges foreign banks worldwide to identify US account holders, currency of $10,000 or more must be declared when crossing the border, and citizens and permanent residents are taxed on worldwide income wherever they live — a rule almost no other country applies. Banking access for a newly arrived foreigner is workable but slow, generally requiring an SSN or ITIN. Rated 'moderate': money moves freely, but it is watched more closely than in most of the countries here, and the tax net follows you out of the country.
- Notas
- The worldwide-taxation rule is the one to understand before taking a green card. Permanent residents remain US taxpayers on global income for as long as they hold the status, whether or not they live in the United States, and formally abandoning it can trigger an expatriation tax.
Freelancer tax burden18,1%
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ene 2026
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- Best eligible scheme us-sole-proprietor-federal at €60,000 = $68,394 (ECB 1.1399 USD/EUR, 2026-07-02) with 10% expenses. Net profit $61,554.60; self-employment tax 15.3% on 92.35% of it = $8,697.38; half deducted, giving AGI $57,205.91; less the $16,100 standard deduction and a §199A deduction of $8,221.18 leaves taxable income $32,884.73, taxed $3,698.17. Total levies $12,395.55 / $68,394 = 18.1%. This is federal tax only, which is the whole story just in the nine states that levy no income tax on earned income.
- Notas
- The single number hides the widest internal spread of any country in this dataset. The same freelancer pays 18.1% in Texas or Florida, 20.5% in California (us-sole-proprietor-california) and 24.4% in New York City (us-sole-proprietor-new-york-city), where state and city income taxes stack on the federal one. Read this figure as the floor available to someone free to choose their state, not as a national average. It also excludes the self-employed health-insurance deduction and retirement contributions, both of which US freelancers use heavily and both of which would lower it.
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Air quality (PM2.5)6,4 µg/m³
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- Annual arithmetic mean of 6.44 µg/m³ recorded in 2024 at the McMillan NCore-PAMS site, the District's single regulatory PM2.5 monitor with full-year coverage (97% observation completeness, no exceptional events flagged).
- Notas
- The cleanest air of the three US cities here and among the cleanest in this dataset — 1.3× the WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³, well inside the US standard of 9. One monitor is a thin basis for a whole city compared with New York's eight, but the District is small and flat, and the neighbouring monitors in the same EPA dataset agree: Aurora Hills in Arlington, Virginia reads 6.49–6.91 and HU-Beltsville in Prince George's County, Maryland reads 5.61–6.10.
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Homicide rate5,1/100k
Bureau of Justice Statistics and FBI — Crime Known to Law Enforcement, 2024 (NCJ 310856), Table 1
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Notas
- 17,420 homicides in 2024, a rate of 5.1 per 100,000 — down sharply from 6.1 in 2023, continuing the retreat from the 2020–21 spike. Still several times the Western European level: Italy records 0.6, and no European country in this dataset is above 1.2. The national figure also hides an enormous internal range: New York State records 2.7 and California 4.2, while several southern states run above 8. Estimated by the BJS/FBI National Incident-Based Reporting System Estimation Program from agencies covering about 96% of the population.
Climate comfort4/12 mo
SettleMetric — computed from the Washington Reagan National 1991–2020 NOAA normals
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2020
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- Months whose 1991–2020 normals have a mean daily maximum of 15–28°C and under 150mm of precipitation: April, May, September, October = 4. June, July and August are excluded for heat (29.5–32°C), November to March for cold. No month is excluded for rain.
- Notas
- The lowest count in this dataset's US coverage, and the metric flatters the city slightly at both ends: it does not account for humidity, which makes a 32°C July afternoon in Washington harder work than a dry 32°C elsewhere.
Cost of living (single, excl. rent)$1741/mo
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- Consumer Expenditure Survey 2024, all consumer units: average annual expenditures $78,535 across an average 2.4 persons. Removing shelter ($16,317, the rent-equivalent line), personal insurance and pensions ($9,797, which is saving rather than consumption) and cash contributions ($2,292, which are transfers) leaves $50,129 of consumption. Divided by 2.4 people and by 12 months = $1,740.59 per person per month.
- Notas
- Per-capita basis, to match how Italy, Spain, Czechia, Austria and France are computed in this dataset. The BLS also publishes the real one-person consumer unit, which is what a solo mover actually faces: $48,794 a year, or $29,359 after removing the same three lines — about $2,447 a month excluding rent, 41% above the per-capita figure because a person living alone has no household economies of scale. Read $1,741 as the comparable cross-country number and $2,447 as the realistic personal one. Both include US health spending, which is why every line involving healthcare runs far above the European entries.
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