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Try it free →How to read this page: every row below is labelled either Ang Thong-specific — meaning we counted it in this province — or central-regional benchmark, meaning it is a national or regional figure that would read the same in Sing Buri or Suphan Buri. We have ten advertised rents for the entire province and no local price survey for anything else, so a tidy full-budget table would be mostly fiction. This is what we can actually stand behind.
Rent: the numbers we actually counted
| Line | Figure | Basis | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheapest advertised room in the province | ฿1,400–1,600 | Ang Thong-specific | Dome House, tambon Hua Taphan, Wiset Chai Chan — the only advertised long-stay building outside the capital district. |
| Typical advertised room, capital district | ฿1,800–4,400 | Ang Thong-specific | The middle of the nine buildings advertised in Mueang Ang Thong, across the tambon of Ban It, Talat Luang, Sala Daeng and Pho Sa. |
| Dearest advertised apartment in the province | ฿4,500–6,500 | Ang Thong-specific | IKKYU Angthong on Liang Mueang 1 Road in tambon Pho Sa. Note the two portals carrying it disagree on the lower bound — ฿4,000 on one, ฿4,500 on the other. |
| A whole house | Not advertised | No data | The largest tier of Ang Thong's rental stock is detached houses let directly by owners, and none of it appears on either portal. Ask locally; do not budget from a portal figure that does not exist. |
| Condominium of any kind | Does not exist here | Verified absence | No registered condominium surfaced on any source. There is no condo rent or purchase price to quote for this province. |
One caveat that matters more here than the headline numbers: five of the ten advertised buildings appear on both portals, and two of those five carry different prices on each. The listing dates run from September 2019 to March 2025, and only one has been refreshed in the last year and a half. These are asking prices from records of very different vintages, not a market snapshot. The rental market guide enumerates every one of them with its location and date.
The province's economic position, in official figures
| Indicator | Figure | Rank | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Human Achievement Index 2022, overall | 0.6457 | 32nd of 77 | Squarely mid-table, and in the NESDC's 'average' band. For a province of this size that is a better result than most manage. |
| Gross provincial product, 2022 | about ฿31.9 billion | — | Per head that is roughly ฿130,469. |
| Largest single economic sector | Manufacturing, 19.4% | — | Ahead of agriculture and fishing at 15.0% and trade at 13.9%. Ang Thong is more industrial than its rice fields suggest. |
| Labour force, 2024 | 127,720, of whom 125,244 employed | — | Agriculture and fishing account for 23.1% of employment, manufacturing 20.1%, trade 17.6%, hotels and restaurants 9.5%. |
| HAI sub-dimension ranks | Not published here | Unverified | The NESDC databook carries eight sub-dimension ranks for every province. We could not open the source page to read Ang Thong's, so we publish the overall figure only rather than guess at the components. |
The useful thing about Ang Thong's HAI position is how unremarkable it is. At 0.6457 and 32nd of 77 this is a genuinely average Thai province — not one of the poor ones, not one of the rich ones. Combine that with a population density of about 281 people per square kilometre, 12th-highest in the country, and you get a picture that is the opposite of the small provinces BAANLYY has covered recently: Ang Thong is neither remote nor deprived. It is ordinary, close to Bangkok, and simply has no property market.
The wage floor — the one number set for this province and no other
Almost everything above is either a count of ten adverts or a national benchmark. There is exactly one figure that the state sets province by province, and it belongs on a cost-of-living page even though it is a labour cost rather than a price: the statutory daily minimum wage. The Wage Committee's announcement divides the country into seventeen bands running from ฿400 down to ฿337. We read Ang Thong and each of its neighbours off that banded announcement directly, because summaries of it are routinely wrong by a baht or two.
| Province | Daily minimum wage | Step from Ang Thong | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ang Thong | ฿348 | — | Band 14 of the 17 the announcement sets; fourth-lowest in the country. The one cost figure that is set for this province specifically. |
| Sing Buri | ฿348 | the same | North. The only neighbour on the same rate — Ang Thong does not sit alone at the bottom, it sits on a two-province shelf. |
| Suphan Buri | ฿355 | +฿7 | West. |
| Lopburi | ฿356 | +฿8 | North-east. |
| Ayutthaya | ฿357 | +฿9 | South and east, and the largest step on any of Ang Thong's borders. The province Ang Thong routes to for hospitals, schools, rail and flights is also its most expensive labour market. |
The shape here is unusual and it is worth reading properly. Ang Thong is not a province surrounded by cheaper neighbours, and it is not one sitting in a hole either. It shares its rate exactly with Sing Buri — the two are a single labour-cost unit, and, as it happens, they also share a vocational institute — and then steps up in every other direction, by ฿7 to Suphan Buri, ฿8 to Lopburi and ฿9 to Ayutthaya. That last step is the one to notice. Ayutthaya is the province Ang Thong sends people to for the things it does not have, and it is also the dearest border Ang Thong has, about 2.6 per cent above it. Across the whole of Ang Thong's land boundary the spread is ฿9 — small in absolute terms, but consistently in one direction: there is no cheaper province to drive to from here.
Two cautions, because this number is easy to misuse. A wage floor is not a price level — it tells you what an employer must pay, not what a bowl of noodles costs, and nothing in this page should be read as saying Ang Thong is 2.6 per cent cheaper than Ayutthaya to live in. And the floor does not cover everyone: work in plantations, livestock, forestry, salt pans and non-sea fishery sits outside it, which matters in a province where agriculture and fishing are 23.1 per cent of employment. The ฿400 top rate, incidentally, applies nationwide to licensed hotels of types 2, 3 and 4 and to licensed entertainment venues, whichever province they are in — so a hotel job in Ang Thong is on a different floor from a factory job in Ang Thong.
Everything else: national benchmarks, honestly labelled
| Category | Basis | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Electricity | Central-regional benchmark | Provincial Electricity Authority tariffs are national, not local. Your bill in Ang Thong is a function of air-conditioning hours on a hot floodplain, not of the province. |
| Water | Central-regional benchmark | Provincial Waterworks Authority supply in the municipality; village supply elsewhere. No Ang Thong-specific tariff to quote. |
| Internet | Central-regional benchmark | Fixed-line fibre from the national operators reaches the town and the district centres on the same national price lists as anywhere else. |
| Food & markets | Central-regional benchmark | This is a rice and agriculture province with fresh markets in every district town, so food costs sit at or below the central-plain norm — but we have no Ang Thong price survey to cite, and we are not going to invent one. |
| Healthcare | Ang Thong-specific structure, national pricing | A Ministry of Public Health general hospital in the town with a community hospital in every other district, plus one 59-bed private hospital. Public pricing is national; the private hospital publishes its own. |
| Transport | Ang Thong-specific structure | No rail and no air means no season tickets and no flights, but Highway 32 puts Bangkok 105km away. Budget for a vehicle and fuel rather than for fares. |
Frequently asked
Is Ang Thong cheap to live in?Yes, in the ordinary way a small central-plain Thai province is cheap, and the numbers we can actually stand behind are the rents: ten advertised long-stay buildings province-wide running ฿1,400 to ฿6,500 a month, nine of them in the capital district. But be careful with the framing. Ang Thong is not a poor province — its 2022 Human Achievement Index score of 0.6457 ranks it 32nd of 77, squarely mid-table, and its economy is led by manufacturing rather than subsistence agriculture. What makes it cheap is that it has no tourism premium, no expat premium and no land scarcity, not that it is deprived.
Why won't you publish a full monthly budget table for Ang Thong?Because most of the rows would be invented. We have ten advertised rents for the entire province, five of which appear on both portals at prices that do not match, and no Ang Thong-specific price survey for food, utilities or anything else. Every honest cost-of-living page for a province this size is a small number of real local figures wrapped in national benchmarks, and we would rather label which is which than produce a tidy table where you cannot tell. The rows above marked 'Ang Thong-specific' are things we counted here; the ones marked 'central-regional benchmark' are national or regional and would read the same for any nearby province.
How does Ang Thong compare to Ayutthaya on cost?Cheaper on housing and broadly similar on everything else, which is precisely why some people live here and work or school there. Ayutthaya has the World Heritage tourism, the railway, the regional hospital, the international schools and a real property market; Ang Thong has none of those and prices accordingly. There is one hard number behind the impression: the statutory daily minimum wage is ฿348 in Ang Thong and ฿357 in Ayutthaya, a ฿9 step and the largest on any of Ang Thong's four borders. Treat that as a labour-cost signal rather than a price index — it does not mean groceries are 2.6 per cent cheaper here. Pa Mok district in the south is the part of Ang Thong closest to Ayutthaya on Route 309. We have not found an official road-distance figure between the two provincial capitals and do not quote one — measure it yourself before you build a commute around it.
What is the minimum wage in Ang Thong, and how does it compare with the provinces around it?฿348 a day, which is band 14 of the 17 the Wage Committee sets and the fourth-lowest rate in Thailand. Every land neighbour and the step to it: Sing Buri ฿348, exactly the same; Suphan Buri ฿355, up ฿7; Lopburi ฿356, up ฿8; Ayutthaya ฿357, up ฿9. So Ang Thong shares its floor with one neighbour and is below the other three, with no cheaper province anywhere on its border. Three qualifications worth carrying. First, a statutory floor is a labour cost, not a price level, and it says nothing directly about what you will pay for rent or food. Second, plantation, livestock, forestry, salt-pan and non-sea fishery work sits outside the floor entirely, which is not a small exclusion in a province where agriculture and fishing account for 23.1 per cent of employment. Third, the ฿400 top rate applies across the whole country to licensed hotels of types 2, 3 and 4 and to licensed entertainment venues, so the province you are in is not the only thing that sets your floor. We read these figures off the Wage Committee's own banded announcement, not off a summary of it, because the summaries get individual provinces wrong.
What is the biggest hidden cost of living in Ang Thong?A vehicle, and the trips it makes. There is no railway station and no airport anywhere in the province, so anything the province cannot do — specialist healthcare, an international curriculum, a flight, a large mall — is a drive. Budget for a car rather than a motorbike if you are here for more than the town, and budget for the fuel of running to Ayutthaya, Saraburi or Bangkok more often than you expect to. The second one, less obvious: Ang Thong is a completely flat floodplain three to six metres above sea level with irrigation canals throughout, so flood risk is a real line item in insurance and in where you choose to live.
Does Ang Thong have a cost-of-living advantage over Bangkok?On housing, dramatically — the dearest advertised apartment in the entire province is ฿6,500 a month. On everything else, less than you would hope, because national tariffs, national retail chains and national fuel prices do not care which province you are in. The genuine financial case for Ang Thong is that you can be 105km from Bangkok on the Asian Highway while paying provincial rents, which is a real arbitrage if your work or your family pulls you toward the capital only occasionally. If you need Bangkok weekly, the fuel and the hours start eating the saving.
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Sources & References
- Ang Thong province — Wikipedia
- Human Achievement Index databook 2022 — NESDC
- Ang Thong apartment listings — RentHub
- Ang Thong apartment listings — Hongpak
- Ang Thong provincial information — Provincial Commercial Office, Ministry of Commerce
- Wage Committee announcement on minimum wage rates, band by band — Ayutthaya Provincial Public Relations Office
- Minimum wage rates in force from 1 July 2025, including the nationwide hotel and entertainment-venue rate
- National Statistical Office, Thailand
- Bureau of Trade and Economic Indices, Ministry of Commerce, Thailand
- Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA), Thailand
- Provincial Waterworks Authority (PWA), Thailand
Primary and official sources are cited above. Government rules, fees and procedures in Thailand change over time and vary by office; always confirm current requirements with the relevant authority before relying on them. BAANLYY never takes paid placement in editorial content.
Advertised asking prices recorded August 2026 and subject to change; they are not verified rents. Official statistics are as published by their issuing bodies. Nothing here is financial, tax or investment advice. Hero photograph via Pexels.
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Last updated 5 September 2026 · Last reviewed 5 September 2026