Canadian City Rankings
Compare Canadian cities side by side
Four OpenStats rankings built from public data: radon, permit value, permit growth, and mill rates. Topic sites publish the municipal readings behind each list.
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Four lists, three data topics
Each ranking opens a full table with method notes and links to individual city pages.
Highest radon communities
Communities ranked by average indoor radon from Health Canada survey data, including the share of homes above 200 Bq/m³.
View radon ranking →
Building permit value leaders
Cities with the highest total construction value under permit in the latest Statistics Canada reporting month.
View permit ranking →
Fastest-rising permit cities
Cities with the largest year-over-year increase in permit value. We require a meaningful prior-year base so small bases do not distort the ranking.
View growth ranking →
Property tax mill rate extremes
Highest and lowest residential mill rates, with notes on assessment bases so you can interpret comparisons carefully.
View mill rate ranking →Further reading
Local news for the same cities
These rankings are based on official statistics. For recent local stories about construction, housing, or hazards, these newspapers cover many of the same municipalities.
These links open third-party sites. They are independent of OpenStats and may show their own ads or paywalls.
National
- CBC News · National
- The Globe and Mail · National
- Canadian Press · Wire
Prairies
- Calgary Herald · Calgary
- Edmonton Journal · Edmonton
- Winnipeg Free Press · Winnipeg
- Saskatoon StarPhoenix · Saskatoon
Ontario & Quebec
- Toronto Star · Toronto
- Ottawa Citizen · Ottawa
- Montreal Gazette · Montreal
- La Presse · Montreal
British Columbia
- Vancouver Sun · Vancouver
- The Province · Metro Vancouver
- Victoria Times Colonist · Victoria
Atlantic
- Chronicle Herald · Halifax
- Telegram (St. John's) · NL