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Mexico / Latin America

Mexico City City Intelligence

Mexico City is a culturally vibrant Latin American capital known for deep creative and culinary traditions, dense daily life, and active work on air quality and water resilience. Mexico City is a latin america city of about 22.0M metro in Mexico. On the composite city-intelligence score, Mexico City sits around the indexed median (75/100).

Last updated
2026-05-16
Data year
2025
Population
22.0M metro
View of Mexico City, Mexico

Image credit: Image: Gobierno CDMX / Wikimedia Commons, CC0

Overall score

Mexico City is most useful for users comparing affordability, cultural depth, and service density against air-quality and seismic exposure.

Overall75/100
Affordability78/100
Air quality58/100
Energy70/100

Overall city intelligence

Good

75/100

Strong affordability and cultural depth with air-quality and water-resource pressure to manage.

Cultural depth

Very high

Creative, culinary, and academic ecosystems shape daily life.

Affordability profile

Favorable

Cost-of-living levels are comparatively favorable for a major capital.

Mexico City data table

The table is part of the initial server-rendered HTML and mirrors the key city score cards.

Mexico City city intelligence data table
MetricValueContext
Overall score75/100Composite score across major city intelligence modules.
Cost of Living78/100Mexico City offers favorable affordability for a major capital, with strong food and transit cost stability supporting daily life.
Air Quality58/100Mexico City's air-quality profile is shaped by particulate, ozone, and altitude factors, with long-running policy attention and steady improvement.
Energy70/100Mexico City has solid grid reliability with growing renewable capacity at the national level and active work on building efficiency.
Safety64/100Mexico City has mid-tier safety with strong neighborhood variation; resident experience differs widely across districts and time of day.
Internet Speed78/100Mexico City has solid fiber broadband and improving mobile coverage, supporting a growing remote-work and creative-industry presence.
Climate Risk62/100Mexico City faces meaningful climate exposure centered on water scarcity, subsidence, and rising heat, balanced by long-running adaptation programs.
Resilience70/100Climate 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 safety45/100
Night safety35/100
Road safety48/100

Mexico City 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 life57/100
Healthcare62/100
Education68/100
Green space42/100
Cleanliness48/100
Infrastructure66/100
Mobility64/100

Mexico City has a moderate quality-of-life estimate (57/100) across our combined indicators.

Family Friendliness

How the city scores for raising a family, with the indicators that drive it.

Family Friendliness

Family friendliness54/100
Education68/100
Green space42/100
Overall safety43/100

Mexico City scores modest for family living (54/100).

Digital Nomad Suitability

Suitability for remote workers, based on connectivity, mobility, and livability.

Digital Nomad Suitability

Digital nomad suitability67/100
Walkability81/100
Cycling58/100
Infrastructure66/100

Mexico City is moderate for remote workers (67/100), 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 suitability58/100
Healthcare62/100
Cleanliness48/100
Outdoor lifestyle25/100

Mexico City is moderate for retirement (58/100), appealing for affordability and a comfortable climate.

Emergency and public safety in Mexico City

Local public safety guidance for Mexico City, with the country-level emergency contacts that apply when calling for police, fire, or ambulance.

Unverified

For the universal emergency contacts that apply in Mexico City, including police, fire, and ambulance, see the Mexico 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 Mexico City

Healthcare context for Mexico City, with national-level information from Mexico where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only and does not provide medical advice.

Unverified

For the national healthcare and public-health context that applies in Mexico City, see the Mexico 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 Mexico City

Local mobility context for Mexico City, with national-level context from Mexico where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only.

Unverified

For national transport authorities and operators that apply in Mexico City, see the Mexico 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 Mexico City. Verified measurements are surfaced when published from accepted official datasets; transparent fallback is shown otherwise.

Air quality dataset for Mexico City

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 Mexico City 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.

Mexico City air-quality dataset coverage
MetricValueData yearStatus
Air qualityVerified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location.

Data provenance

Source attribution

  • Global 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).

Related comparisons

Pairs that share a city, comparison intent, or region — useful for users planning a wider relocation, remote-work, or business decision.

Mexico City in city collections

Curated city collections that include Mexico City. Each is a comparison-oriented shortlist, not an official ranking.

Mexico City intent guides

Practical intent-focused guides available for Mexico City. Each guide is a comparison-oriented view, not an official ranking.

  • Mexico City for Remote work

    Mexico City supports Latin-American remote-work comparison through structured cost and connectivity context, with transparent fallback states where verified local data is unavailable.

Explore Mexico City modules

City pages link to module and ranking pages so crawlers can move through the topic cluster naturally.

Cost of Living in Mexico City

Mexico City offers favorable affordability for a major capital, with strong food and transit cost stability supporting daily life.

Air Quality in Mexico City

Mexico City's air-quality profile is shaped by particulate, ozone, and altitude factors, with long-running policy attention and steady improvement.

Energy in Mexico City

Mexico City has solid grid reliability with growing renewable capacity at the national level and active work on building efficiency.

Safety in Mexico City

Mexico City has mid-tier safety with strong neighborhood variation; resident experience differs widely across districts and time of day.

Internet Speed in Mexico City

Mexico City has solid fiber broadband and improving mobile coverage, supporting a growing remote-work and creative-industry presence.

Climate Risk in Mexico City

Mexico City faces meaningful climate exposure centered on water scarcity, subsidence, and rising heat, balanced by long-running adaptation programs.

City rankings

Compare this city against other indexed cities in crawlable ranking tables.

Cost of living in Mexico City

Cost of living estimates for Mexico City — 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 Mexico City

Climate profile for Mexico City — Semi-Arid climate, annual average 26°C, comfort score 72/100. Month-by-month temperatures, rainfall, sunshine, and the best months to visit. Deterministic planning estimates, not a forecast.

Economy and jobs in Mexico City

Economy and jobs profile for Mexico City — tourism economy, economy score 62/100, key industries including tourism, manufacturing, hospitality. Employment, salary, startup, remote-work, and career indicators. Deterministic planning estimates.

Universities and education in Mexico City

Education profile for Mexico City — regional education center, education score 68/100, 7 representative universities, plus research, student life, and international-student indicators. Deterministic dataset, not institutional rankings.

Healthcare and retirement in Mexico City

Healthcare and retirement profile for Mexico City — regional healthcare center, healthcare score 61/100, retirement score 62/100. Medical access, specialist and emergency care, affordability, and retirement suitability. Deterministic planning estimates.

Estimate a monthly budget for Mexico City

Estimate a monthly budget for Mexico City 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 Mexico City

Plan a trip budget for Mexico City 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 Mexico City

Where else nearby you could spend a day or a weekend from Mexico City. Links are derived from geographic proximity, shared region, shared natural-recreation areas, transport corridors, and country borders — not popularity or tourism rankings.

Guadalajara, Mexico

Same region · about 463 km from Mexico City. Explore Guadalajara's city intelligence profile.

Monterrey, Mexico

Same region · about 714 km from Mexico City. Explore Monterrey's city intelligence profile.

McAllen, United States

Cross-border · about 769 km from Mexico City. Explore McAllen's city intelligence profile.

Interpretation

Mexico City is most useful for users comparing affordability, cultural depth, and service density against air-quality and seismic exposure. Its standout dimensions are cost of living (78/100) and internet speed (78/100). The area most worth watching is air quality (58/100), 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 Mexico country page. Related rankings include Overall Intelligence, Quality of Life, Remote Work. See where Mexico City 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.