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
#4
Latest · 2026 · of 42
Score 2862623000
Alberta
Edmonton
River city with a fort memory
Edmonton in brief
Edmonton sits on the North Saskatchewan River, on ground used for thousands of years by Cree, Nakota Sioux, Blackfoot, Tsuutʼina, Dene, and Métis peoples. Fur trade posts came and went; Fort Edmonton anchored the later townsite that became Alberta’s capital.
Rails, farmland, and then oilfield paycheques stacked new neighbourhoods on the riverbanks. Locals still measure summer by festivals on the river valley trails and winter by how bold you feel walking a skyway.
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#19
City Score rank
82%
City Score
5
Owned lists in score
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 Edmonton
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
#19
Published · 2026 · of 125
Score 0.817
Only one published edition places Edmonton 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
#52
Published · 2026 · of 117
Score 114.1
Only one published edition places Edmonton in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Housing
CMHC Average 2-Bedroom Rent — Lowest Rent
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Average rent for purpose-built 2-bedroom apartments (all tenants) from CMHC Rental Market Survey. Rank 1 = lowest average rent among covered CMAs.
Single edition · 2025
#9
Published · 2025 · of 18
Score 1603
Only one published edition places Edmonton in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Housing
CMHC Purpose-Built Rental Vacancy — Highest Vacancy
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Purpose-built rental apartment vacancy rate from CMHC Rental Market Survey (October). Rank 1 = highest vacancy (most available rental stock among covered CMAs).
2 editions · 2024–2025
#5
Latest · 2025 · of 18
Score 3.8
Housing
Demographia International Housing Affordability — Canadian Markets
Demographia / Frontier Centre for Public Policy
Canadian subset of Demographia median multiple (median house price / median household income). Rank 1 = most affordable (lowest median multiple) among Canadian major markets in the international survey.
3 editions · 2024–2026
#1
Latest · 2026 · of 6
Score 3.6 · Moderately Unaffordable
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
#27
Published · 2023 · of 439
Only one published edition places Edmonton 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).
2 editions · 2019–2021
#5
Latest · 2021 · of 415
Livability
MoneySense Best Places to Live
MoneySense
Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
4 editions · 2014–2018
#68
Latest · 2018 · of 415
Housing
National Bank Housing Affordability — Highest Mortgage Stress
National Bank of Canada Economics and Strategy
Ranked by Mortgage Payment as a Percentage of Income (MPPI) on a representative home. Rank 1 = highest MPPI (least affordable). Free quarterly Housing Affordability Monitor tables.
2 editions · 2025–2026
#9
Latest · 2026 · of 10
Score 33.3
Quality of life
Numbeo Quality of Life Index by City
Numbeo
Crowd-sourced composite Quality of Life Index. Historical snapshots are free on Numbeo ranking pages; OpenStats cites Canadian cities from those public pages (cite_only). Higher index scores are better; ranks are global position on the snapshot page.
3 editions · 2024–2026
#111
Latest · 2026 · of 304
Score 175.2
Housing
RBC Housing Affordability — Least Affordable Markets
RBC Economics
Ranked by RBC aggregate Housing Affordability Measure (% of median pre-tax household income for mortgage, property taxes, and utilities on a benchmark home). Rank 1 = highest ownership-cost burden (least affordable). CMA markets mapped to primary city slugs.
2 editions · 2024–2025
#9
Latest · 2025 · of 13
Score 32.2
Worth knowing in Edmonton
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Edmonton is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta.
It is situated on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, which is surrounded by Alberta's central region.
Located about 290 kilometres (180 mi) north of Calgary, the city anchors the northern end of what Statistics Canada defines as the "Calgary–Edmonton Corridor".
West Edmonton Mall was once the largest shopping mall in the world and still houses Galaxyland, a large indoor amusement park.
Places to see
West Edmonton Mall
This massive mall packs hundreds of shops with an indoor amusement park and a history of deadly amusement attractions.
Al Rashid Mosque
Canada's first mosque, and the second in North America, built in Edmonton in 1938 and later relocated to Fort Edmonton Park.
Neon Sign Museum
An outdoor installation of about 20 vintage business signs that once hung around Edmonton.
High Level Bridge
A multi-level bridge that has carried rail, road, streetcar, and pedestrian traffic across the North Saskatchewan River valley for more than a century.
