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
#31
Latest · 2026 · of 42
Score 235671000
New Brunswick
Moncton
Hub City at the river bend
Moncton in brief
Moncton sits in the Petitcodiac valley at the geographic centre of the Maritimes, which is how it earned the nickname Hub City. Acadians farmed the marsh here by 1733 and called the bend Le Coude, the Elbow.
Rail yards later made inland Moncton the transfer point for the region, and the city has since passed 100,000 residents. Twice a day the Fundy tidal bore rolls upstream through town, and Magnetic Hill still tricks cars into seeming to roll uphill in neutral.
Drawn from Wikipedia, Atlas Obscura, Atlas Obscura.
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#66
City Score rank
44%
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 Moncton
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
#66
Published · 2026 · of 125
Score 0.444
Only one published edition places Moncton 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
#87
Published · 2026 · of 117
Score 81.4
Only one published edition places Moncton 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
#7
Published · 2021 · of 415
Only one published edition places Moncton 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.
4 editions · 2014–2018
#292
Latest · 2018 · of 415
Worth knowing in Moncton
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Moncton is the most populous city in the Canadian province of New Brunswick.
Situated in the Petitcodiac River Valley, it lies at the geographic centre of the Maritime Provinces.
The city has earned the nickname "Hub City" because of its central inland location in the region and its history as a railway and land transportation hub for the Maritimes.
As of the 2025 Statistics Canada estimates, the city had a population of 102,378, the first time that a New Brunswick city had a population of more than 100,000 people.
Places to see
Moncton Magnetic Hill
An optical-illusion gravity hill where cars appear to roll uphill when left in neutral.
Moncton Tidal Bore
Twice a day, Fundy tides send a surfable wave upstream along the Petitcodiac River through Moncton.
