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
#40
Latest · 2026 · of 42
Score 108764000
Ontario
Sudbury
Big Nickel country under three roads
Sudbury in brief
Greater Sudbury is Northern Ontario's most populous city and Ontario's largest by area, a single-tier municipality on Ojibwe land known as N'Swakamok, where the three roads meet. Local chiefs signed the Robinson Huron Treaty in 1850, sharing a vast tract with the Crown.
Mining built the modern city. The Big Nickel is a nine-metre stainless-steel 1951 five-cent coin, and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory once sat more than a mile underground in a nickel mine.
Drawn from Wikipedia, Atlas Obscura, Atlas Obscura, Atlas Obscura.
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#95
City Score rank
29%
City Score
6
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 Sudbury
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
#95
Published · 2026 · of 125
Score 0.293
Only one published edition places Sudbury 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
#32
Published · 2026 · of 117
Score 131.2
Only one published edition places Sudbury in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Property tax · OpenStats
OpenStats Residential Mill Rates
OpenStats
Municipalities ranked by residential mill rate. Rank 1 is the highest published rate (higher tax burden).
Single edition · 2024
#24
Published · 2024 · of 43
Score 14.1
Only one published edition places Sudbury in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Worth knowing in Sudbury
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Greater Sudbury, also known as Sudbury, is the most populous city in Northern Ontario with a population around 166,004 in 2021.
Greater Sudbury is the only single-tier municipality in Northern Ontario, the largest city in Ontario by area and the fifth largest in Canada.
The Big Nickel is a nine-metre stainless-steel replica of a 1951 five-cent coin, weighing about 13 tonnes.
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory sat in the largest man-made underground cavity in the world, more than a mile beneath a nickel mine.
Places to see
Big Nickel
Possibly the world's largest coin, a 30-foot stainless steel nickel outside Dynamic Earth.
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
A deep-mine neutrino detector built inside an enormous underground water-filled chamber.
Alex Trebek Mural
A three-storey mural of Sudbury-born Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek on his former high school.
