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New York Cityvs.Washington, D.C..
New York City y Washington, D.C. empatan en los datos principales, con 1 resultados mejores cada una de 8. Cost of living (single, excl. rent): New York City $1741/mo, Washington, D.C. $1741/mo. Freelancer tax burden: New York City 18,1%, Washington, D.C. 18,1%. Climate comfort: New York City 5/12 mo, Washington, D.C. 4/12 mo.
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Resultado principal
Empate: 1 de 8 cada uno
New York City
1
Washington, D.C.
1
01Cost of living (single, excl. rent)
New York City
$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.
Washington, D.C.
$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.
02Freelancer tax burden
New York City
18,1%
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.
Washington, D.C.
18,1%
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.
03Homicide rate
New York City
5,1/100k
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.
Washington, D.C.
5,1/100k
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.
04Climate comfort
New York Citymejor
5/12 mo
SettleMetric — computed from the New York Central Park 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, June, September, October = 5. July (29.4°C) and August (28.5°C) are excluded for heat, November to March for cold. No month is excluded for rain.
Washington, D.C.
4/12 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.
05Internet speed
New York City
85 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.
Washington, D.C.
85 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.
06English proficiency
New York City
Native
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.
Washington, D.C.
Native
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.
07Private healthcare cost
New York City
$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.
Washington, D.C.
$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.
08Air quality (PM2.5)
New York City
6,8 µg/m³
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- Mean of the 2024 annual arithmetic means from the eight regulatory PM2.5 monitors in the five boroughs with at least 75% observation completeness: IS 52 and Pfizer Lab (Bronx), JHS 126 (Brooklyn), IS 45 and PS 19 (Manhattan), Queens College 2 and Queens College Near Road, Richmond Post Office (Staten Island). Values ranged 6.13–7.65 µg/m³ and none had exceptional events flagged.
- Notas
- 1.4× the WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³ and comfortably inside the US national standard of 9 — cleaner than Milan, Rome or Los Angeles, and a long way from the city's reputation. 2024 was also a quiet wildfire year on the east coast; the Canadian smoke episodes of June 2023 pushed daily readings an order of magnitude higher for several days, and that risk has not gone away.
Washington, D.C.mejor
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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01Freelancer tax burden
New York City
18,1%
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.
Washington, D.C.
18,1%
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.
02Internet speed
New York City
85 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.
Washington, D.C.
85 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.
03English proficiency
New York City
Native
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.
Washington, D.C.
Native
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.
04Cost of living (single, excl. rent)
New York City
$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.
Washington, D.C.
$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.
05Domestic delivery quality
New York City
Excellent
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.
Washington, D.C.
Excellent
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.
Familia
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Washington, D.C. encaja mejor: 1 de 5
01International schools
New York City
21
International Schools Database — International schools in New York City (21 schools listed)
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ago 2026
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- The directory states 21 international schools for New York City. The same directory was used for Athens, Rome, Milan and Genoa elsewhere in this dataset. Its curriculum filter counts, which overlap because a school can offer more than one, are: IB 13, American 10, French 5, German 3, International 3, British 2, Spanish 2, Chinese 1, Japanese 1, Italian 1, Montessori 1, Quaker 1.
- Notas
- Fewer than Rome's 29 despite three times the population, which reflects what the number measures rather than what is available: New York's private-school market is enormous but overwhelmingly domestic, so foreign-curriculum schools are a small specialist segment. Fees are the outlier — the directory's listings run from roughly $37,000 to $58,000 a year, well above any European city here.
Washington, D.C.
sin datos verificados
02Homicide rate
New York City
5,1/100k
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.
Washington, D.C.
5,1/100k
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.
03Private healthcare cost
New York City
$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.
Washington, D.C.
$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.
04Air quality (PM2.5)
New York City
6,8 µg/m³
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- Mean of the 2024 annual arithmetic means from the eight regulatory PM2.5 monitors in the five boroughs with at least 75% observation completeness: IS 52 and Pfizer Lab (Bronx), JHS 126 (Brooklyn), IS 45 and PS 19 (Manhattan), Queens College 2 and Queens College Near Road, Richmond Post Office (Staten Island). Values ranged 6.13–7.65 µg/m³ and none had exceptional events flagged.
- Notas
- 1.4× the WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³ and comfortably inside the US national standard of 9 — cleaner than Milan, Rome or Los Angeles, and a long way from the city's reputation. 2024 was also a quiet wildfire year on the east coast; the Canadian smoke episodes of June 2023 pushed daily readings an order of magnitude higher for several days, and that risk has not gone away.
Washington, D.C.mejor
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.
05English proficiency
New York City
Native
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.
Washington, D.C.
Native
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.
Dinero y cripto
Optimizar impuestos, banca y normas sobre cripto.
Muy reñido para este plan
01Crypto regulation
New York City
Legal 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.
Washington, D.C.
Legal 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.
02Financial control level
New York City
Moderate
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.
Washington, D.C.
Moderate
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.
03Freelancer tax burden
New York City
18,1%
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.
Washington, D.C.
18,1%
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.
Vida tranquila
Priorizar la seguridad, el aire y una vida diaria sencilla.
Muy reñido para este plan
01Homicide rate
New York City
5,1/100k
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.
Washington, D.C.
5,1/100k
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.
02Air quality (PM2.5)
New York City
6,8 µg/m³
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- Mean of the 2024 annual arithmetic means from the eight regulatory PM2.5 monitors in the five boroughs with at least 75% observation completeness: IS 52 and Pfizer Lab (Bronx), JHS 126 (Brooklyn), IS 45 and PS 19 (Manhattan), Queens College 2 and Queens College Near Road, Richmond Post Office (Staten Island). Values ranged 6.13–7.65 µg/m³ and none had exceptional events flagged.
- Notas
- 1.4× the WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³ and comfortably inside the US national standard of 9 — cleaner than Milan, Rome or Los Angeles, and a long way from the city's reputation. 2024 was also a quiet wildfire year on the east coast; the Canadian smoke episodes of June 2023 pushed daily readings an order of magnitude higher for several days, and that risk has not gone away.
Washington, D.C.mejor
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.
03Cost of living (single, excl. rent)
New York City
$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.
Washington, D.C.
$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.
04Climate comfort
New York Citymejor
5/12 mo
SettleMetric — computed from the New York Central Park 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, June, September, October = 5. July (29.4°C) and August (28.5°C) are excluded for heat, November to March for cold. No month is excluded for rain.
Washington, D.C.
4/12 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.
03
La comparación completa
Abre cualquier dato para ver qué mide, cómo de reciente es y el rastro completo de fuentes de ambas ciudades.
01
Impuestos
CriterioNew York CityWashington, D.C.
01+−Freelancer tax burden% effective burden at €60k/year self-employed profileNew York City18,1Washington, D.C.18,1
Qué mide esto
Effective total burden (income tax + mandatory social and health contributions) for a solo IT freelancer with €60,000/year revenue and 10% deductible expenses, using the most favourable eligible scheme in the country's tax-schemes data. Computed by the SettleMetric tax engine; recorded as a curated value with the winning scheme id in method.
Cuanto más bajo, mejor· % effective burden at €60k/year self-employed profile· se vuelve a verificar cada 365 días
New York City
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.
Washington, D.C.
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.
02
Legalización
CriterioNew York CityWashington, D.C.
01+−Remote-work legalization easeNew York CityShort stay onlyWashington, D.C.Short stay only
Qué mide esto
Best available legalization route for a location-independent earner with a median (non-EU, non-US) passport, classified from this country's legalization-paths data: dedicated digital-nomad visa; general freelance/self-employment permit; realistic long-stay path (e.g. renewable temporary residence); only short visa-free/tourist stays; effectively none.
Valorado por categoría· se vuelve a verificar cada 180 días
New York City
U.S. Customs and Border Protection — Visa Waiver Program; 8 CFR 214.2(b) visitor admissions
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ago 2026
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Notas
- The United States has no digital-nomad visa and no freelance or self-employment permit — the concept does not exist in US immigration law, which authorises work through a sponsoring employer, a treaty investment, or an immigrant petition. For a location-independent earner with an ordinary passport, the realistic ceiling is a visitor stay: 90 days under the Visa Waiver Program, or up to six months on a B-1/B-2 visa, neither of which authorises work in the United States. The genuine long-stay routes all have a demanding filter — E-2 requires a treaty nationality plus substantial invested capital, O-1A and EB-1A require documented national or international acclaim, and the diversity lottery is a lottery. See data/countries/us/legalization.json for all six.
Washington, D.C.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection — Visa Waiver Program; 8 CFR 214.2(b) visitor admissions
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ago 2026
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Notas
- The United States has no digital-nomad visa and no freelance or self-employment permit — the concept does not exist in US immigration law, which authorises work through a sponsoring employer, a treaty investment, or an immigrant petition. For a location-independent earner with an ordinary passport, the realistic ceiling is a visitor stay: 90 days under the Visa Waiver Program, or up to six months on a B-1/B-2 visa, neither of which authorises work in the United States. The genuine long-stay routes all have a demanding filter — E-2 requires a treaty nationality plus substantial invested capital, O-1A and EB-1A require documented national or international acclaim, and the diversity lottery is a lottery. See data/countries/us/legalization.json for all six.
03
Coste de vida
CriterioNew York CityWashington, D.C.
01+−Cost of living (single, excl. rent)USD/month, single person, excluding rentNew York City1741Washington, D.C.1741
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, mejor· USD/month, single person, excluding rent· se vuelve a verificar cada 365 días
New York City
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.
Washington, D.C.
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.
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 $215 a month per person is roughly three times the European entries in this dataset, and that is out-of-pocket spending on top of insurance premiums, not instead of them.
Transport462 USD
Food & non-alcoholic drinks216 USD
Health (out-of-pocket + insurance)215 USD
Recreation, culture & education184 USD
Household goods, services & furnishings181 USD
Utilities (electricity, gas, water, fuels)164 USD
Restaurants & eating out137 USD
Personal care & clothing103 USD
Miscellaneous42 USD
Alcohol & tobacco35 USD
04
Vivienda
Alquiler por tipo de vivienda
Alquiler de oferta: precio en el centro, con el de fuera del centro entre paréntesis ($/mes).
New York City
Washington, D.C.
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 21 may 2026
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- For each apartment size, the 283 five-borough ZIP codes were sorted by that size's FY2026 Small Area FMR; 'center' is the mean of the priciest quartile (71 ZIPs) and 'outside' the mean of the cheapest quartile. Unlike the Italian cities, no floor-area assumption is needed — HUD publishes a separate rent for each bedroom count.
- Notas
- The centre-to-outside spread is only about 1.5×, and the gap between a studio and a two-bedroom is smaller still — HUD's percentile method compresses both. What it does capture correctly is the level: a cheap-quartile one-bedroom in New York costs more than a central three-bedroom in Genoa.
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.
01Estudio
New York City
$3403$2282 fuera del centro
Washington, D.C.más barato
$2608$1680 fuera del centro
021 dormitorio
New York City
$3570$2390 fuera del centro
Washington, D.C.más barato
$2691$1730 fuera del centro
032 dormitorios
New York City
$3916$2631 fuera del centro
Washington, D.C.más barato
$3000$1930 fuera del centro
043 dormitorios
New York City
$4904$3288 fuera del centro
Washington, D.C.más barato
$3784$2436 fuera del centro
05
Seguridad
CriterioNew York CityWashington, D.C.
01+−Homicide rateintentional homicides per 100,000/yearNew York City5,1Washington, D.C.5,1
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, mejor· intentional homicides per 100,000/year· se vuelve a verificar cada 730 días
New York City
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.
Washington, D.C.
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.
06
Clima
CriterioNew York CityWashington, D.C.
01+−Climate comfortpleasant months/yearNew York Citymejor5Washington, D.C.4
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, mejor· pleasant months/year· se vuelve a verificar cada 3650 días
New York City
SettleMetric — computed from the New York Central Park 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, June, September, October = 5. July (29.4°C) and August (28.5°C) are excluded for heat, November to March for cold. No month is excluded for rain.
Washington, D.C.
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.
02+−Air quality (PM2.5)µg/m³, annual mean PM2.5New York City6,8Washington, D.C.mejor6,4
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, mejor· µg/m³, annual mean PM2.5· se vuelve a verificar cada 730 días
New York City
Fuente oficial
- Datos a fecha de
- 31 dic 2024
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- Mean of the 2024 annual arithmetic means from the eight regulatory PM2.5 monitors in the five boroughs with at least 75% observation completeness: IS 52 and Pfizer Lab (Bronx), JHS 126 (Brooklyn), IS 45 and PS 19 (Manhattan), Queens College 2 and Queens College Near Road, Richmond Post Office (Staten Island). Values ranged 6.13–7.65 µg/m³ and none had exceptional events flagged.
- Notas
- 1.4× the WHO guideline of 5 µg/m³ and comfortably inside the US national standard of 9 — cleaner than Milan, Rome or Los Angeles, and a long way from the city's reputation. 2024 was also a quiet wildfire year on the east coast; the Canadian smoke episodes of June 2023 pushed daily readings an order of magnitude higher for several days, and that risk has not gone away.
Washington, D.C.
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.
07
Sanidad
CriterioNew York CityWashington, D.C.
01+−Private healthcare costUSD/year, comprehensive private insurance premium, healthy 35-year-oldNew York City8892Washington, D.C.8892
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, mejor· USD/year, comprehensive private insurance premium, healthy 35-year-old· se vuelve a verificar cada 365 días
New York City
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.
Washington, D.C.
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.
08
Dinero y cripto
CriterioNew York CityWashington, D.C.
01+−Crypto regulationNew York CityLegal regulatedWashington, D.C.Legal regulated
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
New York City
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.
Washington, D.C.
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.
02+−Financial control levelNew York CityModerateWashington, D.C.Moderate
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
New York City
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.
Washington, D.C.
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.
09
Infraestructura
CriterioNew York CityWashington, D.C.
01+−Domestic delivery qualityNew York CityExcellentWashington, D.C.Excellent
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
New York City
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.
Washington, D.C.
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.
02+−International delivery easeNew York CitySignificant frictionWashington, D.C.Significant friction
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
New York City
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.
Washington, D.C.
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.
03+−Internet speedMbps, median fixed downloadNew York City84,9Washington, D.C.84,9
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, mejor· Mbps, median fixed download· se vuelve a verificar cada 365 días
New York City
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.
Washington, D.C.
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.
10
Idioma
CriterioNew York CityWashington, D.C.
01+−English proficiencyNew York CityNativeWashington, D.C.Native
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
New York City
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.
Washington, D.C.
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.
11
Educación
CriterioNew York CityWashington, D.C.
01+−International schoolsaccredited international schools, countNew York City21Washington, D.C.sin 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, mejor· accredited international schools, count· se vuelve a verificar cada 730 días
New York City
International Schools Database — International schools in New York City (21 schools listed)
Recopilado por SettleMetric
- Datos a fecha de
- 1 ago 2026
- Verificado
- 1 ago 2026
- Método
- The directory states 21 international schools for New York City. The same directory was used for Athens, Rome, Milan and Genoa elsewhere in this dataset. Its curriculum filter counts, which overlap because a school can offer more than one, are: IB 13, American 10, French 5, German 3, International 3, British 2, Spanish 2, Chinese 1, Japanese 1, Italian 1, Montessori 1, Quaker 1.
- Notas
- Fewer than Rome's 29 despite three times the population, which reflects what the number measures rather than what is available: New York's private-school market is enormous but overwhelmingly domestic, so foreign-curriculum schools are a small specialist segment. Fees are the outlier — the directory's listings run from roughly $37,000 to $58,000 a year, well above any European city here.
Washington, D.C.
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.