Overall score
Lagos is most useful for users comparing affordability, creative-economy depth, and entrepreneurial activity in West Africa against air-quality and modernization needs.
Overall66/100
Affordability78/100
Air quality54/100
Energy60/100
Nigeria / Africa
Lagos City Intelligence
Lagos is Nigeria's economic capital and one of Africa's largest urban regions, with a vibrant creative, music, and entrepreneurial culture and active urban-modernization work. Lagos is a africa city of about 21.0M metro in Nigeria. On the composite city-intelligence score, Lagos sits below the indexed median, with practical gaps to close (66/100).
- Last updated
- 2026-05-16
- Data year
- 2025
- Population
- 21.0M metro
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Overall city intelligence
Mixed66/100
Strong affordability and creative-economy profile balanced against modernization needs.
Creative economy
Globally cited
Music, film, and creative industries shape opportunity.
Affordability profile
Favorable
Cost-of-living levels are comparatively favorable.
Lagos data table
The table is part of the initial server-rendered HTML and mirrors the key city score cards.
| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score | 66/100 | Composite score across major city intelligence modules. |
| Cost of Living | 78/100 | Lagos offers strong affordability for a major capital, with food and transit costs supporting steady daily life despite urban density. |
| Air Quality | 54/100 | Lagos' air-quality profile is shaped by traffic, industry, and seasonal dust, with active monitoring expansion and policy attention. |
| Energy | 60/100 | Lagos' energy profile reflects an active transition with rising distributed-solar adoption and ongoing grid-modernization work. |
| Safety | 60/100 | Lagos has mid-tier safety with strong neighborhood variation and property-related opportunistic risks the main day-to-day concern. |
| Internet Speed | 70/100 | Lagos has improving fiber broadband and broad mobile coverage, supporting a fast-growing technology and creative-industry sector. |
| Climate Risk | 56/100 | Lagos faces meaningful climate exposure from coastal flooding, intense rainfall, and rising heat, balanced by adaptation programs that continue to scale. |
| Resilience | 56/100 | Climate adaptation and infrastructure continuity context. |
Safety
Deterministic safety estimates from our index — planning signals derived from country priors and city data, not official crime statistics.
Safety
Overall safety43/100
Low crime43/100
Personal safety46/100
Night safety36/100
Road safety48/100
Lagos scores below average for safety in our index (43/100); research neighborhoods and take standard precautions.
Quality of Life
A composite quality-of-life estimate and its component indicators.
Quality of Life
Quality of life51/100
Healthcare53/100
Education60/100
Green space39/100
Cleanliness47/100
Infrastructure56/100
Mobility59/100
Lagos has a modest quality-of-life estimate (51/100) across our combined indicators.
Family Friendliness
How the city scores for raising a family, with the indicators that drive it.
Family Friendliness
Family friendliness51/100
Education60/100
Green space39/100
Overall safety43/100
Lagos scores modest for family living (51/100).
Digital Nomad Suitability
Suitability for remote workers, based on connectivity, mobility, and livability.
Digital Nomad Suitability
Digital nomad suitability62/100
Walkability81/100
Cycling54/100
Infrastructure56/100
Lagos is moderate for remote workers (62/100), based on connectivity, affordability and walkability and day-to-day amenities.
Retirement Suitability
Suitability for retirement, weighing healthcare, affordability, climate, and environment.
Retirement Suitability
Retirement suitability54/100
Healthcare53/100
Cleanliness47/100
Outdoor lifestyle20/100
Lagos is modest for retirement (54/100), appealing for affordability.
Emergency and public safety in Lagos
Local public safety guidance for Lagos, with the country-level emergency contacts that apply when calling for police, fire, or ambulance.
For the universal emergency contacts that apply in Lagos, including police, fire, and ambulance, see the Nigeria emergency profile, which currently lists no verified national contacts.
Methodology and the wider source registry are documented on the scoring methodology and data sources pages.
Healthcare and hospitals in Lagos
Healthcare context for Lagos, with national-level information from Nigeria where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only and does not provide medical advice.
For the national healthcare and public-health context that applies in Lagos, see the Nigeria healthcare profile, which currently lists no verified national healthcare information.
Related sections: emergency and public safety, scoring methodology, and data sources.
Transport and mobility in Lagos
Local mobility context for Lagos, with national-level context from Nigeria where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only.
For national transport authorities and operators that apply in Lagos, see the Nigeria transport profile, which currently lists no verified national transport information.
Related sections: emergency and public safety, healthcare and hospitals, cities directory, countries directory, scoring methodology, data sources.
Air quality dataset
Source-attributed air-quality dataset for Lagos. Verified measurements are surfaced when published from accepted official datasets; transparent fallback is shown otherwise.
Air quality dataset for Lagos
Verified data unavailableLast updated 2026-05-16 / data year 2025
Verified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location
Source-attributed values for Lagos will appear here after the platform integrates verified measurements from accepted official publishers. Until then, structured air-quality module context remains available on the dedicated module page.
| Metric | Value | Data year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air quality | Verified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location. | ||
Data provenance
Source attributionGlobal City Intelligence — air-quality dataset
Verified data unavailable- Publisher
- Global City Intelligence
- Last verified
- 2026-05-16
The air-quality dataset begins empty by design. Verified city-level measurements appear here only after they are sourced from accepted publishers (WHO, EEA, US EPA, OpenAQ, OECD, or official national/city environmental agencies).
Methodology and context
Numeric measurements appear in this section only after they are sourced from accepted official publishers. The dataset is independently validated at build time; malformed records cannot ship to production.
- Scoring methodology — how indicators across the platform are constructed.
- Data sources registry — the official sources cited by verified datasets.
- Open the Lagos air-quality module
- Browse the clean-air city collection
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Cost of Living in Lagos
Lagos offers strong affordability for a major capital, with food and transit costs supporting steady daily life despite urban density.
Air Quality in Lagos
Lagos' air-quality profile is shaped by traffic, industry, and seasonal dust, with active monitoring expansion and policy attention.
Energy in Lagos
Lagos' energy profile reflects an active transition with rising distributed-solar adoption and ongoing grid-modernization work.
Safety in Lagos
Lagos has mid-tier safety with strong neighborhood variation and property-related opportunistic risks the main day-to-day concern.
Internet Speed in Lagos
Lagos has improving fiber broadband and broad mobile coverage, supporting a fast-growing technology and creative-industry sector.
Climate Risk in Lagos
Lagos faces meaningful climate exposure from coastal flooding, intense rainfall, and rising heat, balanced by adaptation programs that continue to scale.
City rankings
Compare this city against other indexed cities in crawlable ranking tables.
Cost of living in Lagos
Cost of living estimates for Lagos — monthly budgets, rent, food, and transport in the local currency, plus an affordability score for comparison. Planning estimates derived from country baselines, not live prices.
Climate in Lagos
Climate profile for Lagos — Tropical climate, annual average 26.7°C, comfort score 59/100. Month-by-month temperatures, rainfall, sunshine, and the best months to visit. Deterministic planning estimates, not a forecast.
Economy and jobs in Lagos
Economy and jobs profile for Lagos — mixed economy, economy score 50/100, key industries including energy, logistics, tourism. Employment, salary, startup, remote-work, and career indicators. Deterministic planning estimates.
Universities and education in Lagos
Education profile for Lagos — mixed education base, education score 55/100, 6 representative universities, plus research, student life, and international-student indicators. Deterministic dataset, not institutional rankings.
Healthcare and retirement in Lagos
Healthcare and retirement profile for Lagos — developing healthcare market, healthcare score 52/100, retirement score 57/100. Medical access, specialist and emergency care, affordability, and retirement suitability. Deterministic planning estimates.
Estimate a monthly budget for Lagos
Estimate a monthly budget for Lagos using your own housing, food, transport, healthcare, and lifestyle inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official cost-of-living measurement.
Plan a trip budget for Lagos
Plan a trip budget for Lagos using your own accommodation, food, local transport, activities, travel, healthcare buffer, and emergency buffer inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official travel cost estimate.
Nearby cities from Lagos
Where else nearby you could spend a day or a weekend from Lagos. Links are derived from geographic proximity, shared region, shared natural-recreation areas, transport corridors, and country borders — not popularity or tourism rankings.
Accra, Ghana
Cross-border · about 409 km from Lagos. Explore Accra's city intelligence profile.
Interpretation
Lagos is most useful for users comparing affordability, creative-economy depth, and entrepreneurial activity in West Africa against air-quality and modernization needs. Its standout dimensions are cost of living (78/100) and internet speed (70/100). The area most worth watching is air quality (54/100), where the model registers practical gaps. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-16. Drawn from 4 institutional references.
Country context is available on the Nigeria country page. Related rankings include Overall Intelligence, Quality of Life, Remote Work. See where Lagos appears in global rankings or read the scoring methodology.
Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation. Verified datasets are being integrated; official sources should be used for critical decisions.
Sources
4 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation; verified datasets are being integrated and official sources should be used for critical decisions.
- UN-Habitat: World Cities Report 2024
Used as a policy and methodology reference for urban exposure and resilience signals.
- World Health Organization: WHO Global Air Quality Guidelines
Used to normalize air-quality indicators toward health-protective benchmarks.
- NASA: NASA POWER
Used as an energy-resource and weather-normalization reference.
- IPCC: AR6 WGII Chapter 6: Cities, settlements and key infrastructure
Used to explain urban climate vulnerability and adaptation scoring logic.