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
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
- 2026-05-05
- Data year
- 2025
- Population
- 22.0M metro
Overall city intelligence
Good75/100
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
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| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score | 75/100 | Composite score across major city intelligence modules. |
| Cost of Living | 78/100 | Mexico City offers favorable affordability for a major capital, with strong food and transit cost stability supporting daily life. |
| Air Quality | 58/100 | Mexico City's air-quality profile is shaped by particulate, ozone, and altitude factors, with long-running policy attention and steady improvement. |
| Energy | 70/100 | Mexico City has solid grid reliability with growing renewable capacity at the national level and active work on building efficiency. |
| Safety | 64/100 | Mexico City has mid-tier safety with strong neighborhood variation; resident experience differs widely across districts and time of day. |
| Internet Speed | 78/100 | Mexico City has solid fiber broadband and improving mobile coverage, supporting a growing remote-work and creative-industry presence. |
| Climate Risk | 62/100 | Mexico City faces meaningful climate exposure centered on water scarcity, subsidence, and rising heat, balanced by long-running adaptation programs. |
| Resilience | 70/100 | Climate adaptation and infrastructure continuity context. |
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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.
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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 2026-05-05. 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.
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Sources
4 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Mock values are typed and ready to be replaced by API-backed city datasets without changing route structure.
- 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.