Construction · OpenStats
OpenStats Building Permit Value
OpenStats
Cities ranked by total Statistics Canada building permit value in the calendar year. Rank 1 is highest value.
4 editions · 2023–2026
#18
Latest · 2026 · of 42
Score 380611000
British Columbia
Abbotsford
Fraser Valley city with North America's oldest Sikh temple
Abbotsford in brief
Sto:lo Nation peoples were the first residents of the Abbotsford area, and the Sumas First Nation's Upper Sumas 6 reserve still sits at Kilgard inside city limits. Royal Engineers surveyed the valley during the 1858 Fraser gold rush and built Yale Road; former engineer John Cunningham Maclure later secured the land grant that became Abbotsford.
Farming came early, a CPR spur arrived in 1891, and the Gur Sikh Temple opened in 1911 as the oldest Sikh temple still standing in North America. Today Abbotsford is B.C.'s largest city by land area and the most populous municipality outside metro Vancouver.
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#51
City Score rank
54%
City Score
5
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City Score over time
The green line averages OpenStats-owned rankings (radon, permit value, mill rates). Grey dots mark every published placement across all studies below.
Rankings for Abbotsford
Each study below is its own ranking. Where a study has more than one edition for this city, the chart shows standing across those years only.
Composite · OpenStats
OpenStats City Score
OpenStats
Average standing across OpenStats-owned rankings built from public data (currently radon, building permit value, and residential mill rates). Each placement is scored from 0–1 within its edition, then averaged. External livability lists stay on hometown pages as separate published appearances.
Single edition · 2026
#51
Published · 2026 · of 125
Score 0.537
Only one published edition places Abbotsford in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Health · OpenStats
OpenStats Highest Indoor Radon
OpenStats
Communities ranked by Health Canada survey mean indoor radon (Bq/m³). Rank 1 is the highest mean.
Single edition · 2026
#94
Published · 2026 · of 117
Score 61.4
Only one published edition places Abbotsford in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Livability
Globe and Mail Most Livable Cities
The Globe and Mail
2023 data partnership with Environics Analytics ranking 439 Canadian communities on ten livability categories.
Single edition · 2023
#37
Published · 2023 · of 439
Only one published edition places Abbotsford in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Livability
Maclean's Best Communities
Maclean's
Successor-style municipal livability ranking published by Maclean's for 2019 and 2021 (no 2020 edition).
Single edition · 2021
#91
Published · 2021 · of 415
Only one published edition places Abbotsford in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Livability
MoneySense Best Places to Live
MoneySense
Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
Single edition · 2018
#161
Published · 2018 · of 415
Only one published edition places Abbotsford in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Worth knowing in Abbotsford
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Abbotsford is a city in British Columbia next to the Canada–United States border, Greater Vancouver, and the Fraser River.
Abbotsford–Mission has the third-highest proportion of visible minorities among census metropolitan areas in Canada, after the Greater Toronto Area and the Greater Vancouver CMA.
It is home to Tradex, the University of the Fraser Valley, and Abbotsford International Airport.
Abbotsford is British Columbia's largest city by land area and a major Fraser Valley agriculture centre.
