🌾Rural Rent per Square Meter

How the Raw Value Is Calculated

The raw value is the estimated monthly rent outside central city locations in US dollars per square metre. It covers suburbs, smaller cities, edge locations and more rural residential areas where long-term living is realistically usable.

Where direct country values are available, Nomadino uses a rent basket made of 70% one-bedroom apartment outside the city centre with 45 square metres and 30% three-bedroom apartment outside the city centre with 90 square metres. The formula is: 0.7 times monthly rent of the one-bedroom apartment divided by 45 plus 0.3 times monthly rent of the three-bedroom apartment divided by 90.

For countries and territories without reliable direct coverage, Nomadino uses maintained replacement values. These start from the existing Nomadino rent per square metre and are calibrated with country-specific factors for non-central or more rural residential locations. The values are checked against Numbeo, Global Property Guide, OECD and Eurostat housing sources, national statistical sources and World Bank exchange rates.

Electricity, heating, water, internet, broker fees, deposits, purchase prices, rental yields, hotels, holiday rentals and prime city-centre locations are not included. Those topics remain separate indicators or are used only as plausibility checks.

The rating is rescaled from all visible raw values. The lowest non-central rent value receives 100 points, and the highest value receives 1 point. Between them, Nomadino uses a logarithmic cost scale because rents are strongly skewed: cheap and mid-range countries remain clearly differentiated, while very expensive outliers do not distort the whole scale.