Read this first: most cost-of-living pages for small Thai provinces are regional averages wearing a local name. This one is not, and the way to tell is the second column of the first table. Everything marked Sing Buri-specific was read off a source bounded to this province. Everything marked central-regional benchmark is the normal national or regional price, presented as such. We publish no average rent, no median rent and no per-square-metre figure for Sing Buri, because eight advertised asking prices spread over eleven years cannot support one. See the rental market guide for the individual buildings and their listing dates.
What we could actually measure in Sing Buri
| Line | Figure | Basis | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advertised long-stay rent, province-wide | ฿2,500–9,000/mo across eight buildings | Sing Buri-specific | The full advertised set on the one rental portal we could bound to the province in August 2026: four buildings in Mueang Sing Buri, three in Bang Rachan, one in Khai Bang Rachan. In Buri, Phrom Buri and Tha Chang advertise nothing. Seven of the eight listings were last updated before 2025 and one dates from August 2015, so treat this as a range of asking prices posted over eleven years, not a current benchmark. |
| Advertised rent, capital district | ฿3,000–8,000/mo across four buildings | Sing Buri-specific | Concentrated in tambon Ton Pho and around Sing Buri Hospital. The widest single listing, ฿3,000–8,000, belongs to one building advertising a range of room types. |
| Advertised rent, Bang Rachan districts | ฿2,500–9,000/mo across four buildings | Sing Buri-specific | Both the cheapest and the most expensive advertised monthly rates in the province sit in these two districts — evidence of no reference price rather than of a premium market. |
| Daily rates where offered | ฿330–550/day at one advertised building | Sing Buri-specific | Three of the eight advertise daily as well as monthly rates. That tells you what these buildings are: walk-up blocks serving hospital visitors, contract workers and students. |
| Gross provincial product per head | About ฿151,441 (2022) | Sing Buri-specific | From a provincial economy of about ฿27.932 billion. Note what drives the per-head figure: the population is small and has been falling, so this is a respectable number for a rice province rather than evidence of prosperity. |
| Building facilities | Zero of eight, on every filter | Sing Buri-specific | Lift, air conditioning, fitness room, swimming pool and pet-friendly all return zero buildings out of eight on the portal's own route-level filters. There is no facilities premium to budget for because there are no facilities. |
What is a benchmark, not a measurement
| Line | Basis | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Utilities (electricity & water) | Central-regional benchmark | Metered by the Provincial Electricity Authority and Provincial Waterworks Authority at national tariffs, as everywhere outside Bangkok and its immediate neighbours. Rental buildings frequently apply their own higher per-unit rate — ask what it is before signing, because in a market of eight advertised buildings there is no competitive pressure holding it down. |
| Internet | Central-regional benchmark | Fixed-line fibre from the national operators is available in the provincial and district towns at standard national pricing. We have not verified coverage at the village level anywhere in the province and do not claim it. |
| Food & markets | Central-regional benchmark | Fresh-market prices in Sing Buri track the central-plain norm. One genuinely local line: pla chon mae la, the snakehead from the Mae La water, is a premium regional product the province markets deliberately and celebrates with an annual fish festival — it is not the cheapest fish in the market. |
| Transport & fuel | Central-regional benchmark | National fuel pricing. What is Sing Buri-specific is that you will use more of it than in a province with rail: there is no railway station and no airport in the province, so a car does more work here than the budget for one usually assumes. |
| Healthcare, out of pocket | Central-regional benchmark | Ministry of Public Health tariffs at the two general hospitals and four community hospitals; private pricing at the province's one 30-bed private hospital. We have not verified a price list at any of them and publish none. |
| Schooling | Central-regional benchmark | State schooling at national terms — 61 primary, 42 lower secondary, 18 upper secondary schools and six vocational colleges as of the 2023 academic year. We could not identify an international-curriculum school anywhere in the province, so international school fees are not a Sing Buri line item; they are a Lop Buri, Ayutthaya or Bangkok one. |
The practical consequence of this split is worth stating directly, because it is the thing people get wrong about provinces like this one. Moving to Sing Buri cuts your housing cost substantially and cuts almost nothing else. Electricity, water, internet, fuel, groceries and medical care all price at central-plain norms; the province has no local discount on any of them. What it has is cheap accommodation, cheap land and a low-pressure market — plus, unusually, medical provision well above what a province of roughly 206,000 people normally gets. Budget for the housing saving and nothing more, and you will not be surprised.
The provincial economy, for context
| Sector | Output (2022) | Share of GPP | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manufacturing | ฿8.287bn | 29.7% | The largest single sector, which is not what the rice fields suggest — and it employs 21.5% of the workforce, roughly in line with its output share. |
| Education | ฿4.001bn | 14.3% | Second largest. An unusual line to find at this weight in a small rice province, and consistent with a vocational cohort (4,070 students) larger than the upper-secondary one (3,423). |
| Trade | ฿3.307bn | 11.8% | 3,685 registered entities and 18,662 workers — 17.2% of employment against 11.8% of output, the classic small-margin retail profile. |
| Agriculture & fishery | ฿3.171bn | 11.3% | Employs 22.3% of the workforce for 11.3% of output. 637 km² of the province — 77.5% — is agricultural land, of which 540 km² is paddy. |
| Finance | ฿1.604bn | 5.7% | |
| Human health | ฿1.319bn | 4.7% | Consistent with a province carrying two general hospitals rather than one. |
Total gross provincial product was about ฿27.932 billion in 2022, roughly ฿151,441 per head. Two figures here are worth pausing on. Manufacturing at 29.7 per cent makes Sing Buri considerably more industrial than its rice-province reputation, and education at 14.3 per cent is a strikingly high second place for a province with no university campus we could identify — the vocational sector is doing that work. Meanwhile agriculture employs 22.3 per cent of the workforce for 11.3 per cent of output, which is the productivity gap that explains why the province lost population between 2000 and 2020.
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Sources & References
- Sing Buri province (GPP, sector & workforce statistics) — Wikipedia
- Singburi apartment listings — RentHub
- Sing Buri property for sale (province-bounded) — DDproperty
- 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 prices and official statistics recorded in August 2026 and subject to change. Indicative information only — not financial, tax or investment advice. Confirm rents, utility rates and fees directly with landlords, providers and licensed professionals. Hero photograph via Pexels.
