Halifax sits at City Score rank #81 with a standing of 55%, from 7 of 8 open-data pillars (tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, growth, safety). Missing pillars score at median standing so thin coverage cannot inflate the rank. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #14 of 327 at 195 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #44 of 57 (11.10 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
On the latest OpenStats pass, Halifax carries a City Score standing of 55% (rank #81 of 343) with 7 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 7 points above the Nova Scotia peer average across 9 ranked cities. Within Nova Scotia, Halifax ranks #1 of 9 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is drinking-water hardness (standing 100%, rank #342 of 343, raw score 20). The weakest observed pillar is indoor radon (standing 4%, rank #14 of 327). Crime severity uses the Statistics Canada police-service CSI mapped to Halifax, Nova Scotia (table 35100026), not a regional proxy.
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 20 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Halifax. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
