Jamaica’s used-car market, 2019 to 2023
We studied 201,570 car listings posted across Jamaica from January 2019 to June 2023. Like for like, asking prices rose 25% from 2019 to late 2022 and 39% by mid-2023.
We wrote it up twice, because buyers and sellers need different things from the same numbers.
For buyers
Fair asking ranges for 24 popular models by age, the value sweet spot, and why manual, low-mileage and out-of-town "bargains" often are not.
For sellers
Where your price sits against the market, which models hold their value, what you are competing with, and what most listings leave out.
About this data
- These are ASKING prices from 201,570 unique car listings on Jamaican classified sites, collected January 2019 to June 2023 (161,557 with a usable price). They are not sale prices: sellers negotiate, and no sale outcomes or time-to-sell were recorded.
- Prices are nominal Jamaican dollars, with no adjustment for inflation.
- 2023 covers January to June only. In 2021 fewer than half of listings carried a usable vehicle year or body type, so age and body-type figures for 2021 rest on a partial subset.
- Mileage appears on only 8% to 19% of listings, and about one listing in five has no usable price; price figures describe priced listings only.
- Repeat sightings of the same car at the same price count once. Monthly listing counts are a rough guide: some low months were collection outages.
- Groups with fewer than 10 priced listings are left out. No seller details are published.