City Score 2025 — Canadian City Rankings

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City Score 2025 — Canadian city rankings

343 places ranked across eight open-data pillars.

Theme: composite
Cadence: annual
Geography unit: csd
How we publish: Full OpenStats table

How the City Score works

Each placement is scored from 0 to 1 inside its edition. When rank 1 means best, first place scores near 100%. When rank 1 means worst (for example highest radon or hardest water), that ordering is flipped so a healthier result still scores higher. Series in the same pillar (for example water hardness and lead) are averaged first. A city's OpenStats City Score is then the equal-weight mean across all eight pillars: tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, population growth, and crime severity. Missing pillars score at median standing (50%) so thin coverage cannot inflate the rank. Cities are ordered by that score. Commercial livability lists are never inputs.

Year panels from 2016 through 2025 use live atlas rows when a pillar publishes for that year. Permits, mill rates, and broadband may use documented estimates so hometown charts can move across the decade when a direct municipal reading is missing. Survey or model vintages for radon, water hardness, water lead, and seismic PGA may be carried forward; those carries are flagged when static for more than two years. Carried radon values are Health Canada survey vintages held constant — they are not newly measured annual city tests. Full ingest and tier rules sit on the methodology page.

Pillars measure different things. Use the City Score as a summary signal, then open the individual studies and topic pages for decisions about a specific home or project.

Current leaders

#	City	Province	Standing	Pillars
1	Barrie	Ontario	77%	7
2	Fredericton	New Brunswick	73%	7
3	Bradford West Gwillimbury	Ontario	72%	7
4	St. Thomas	Ontario	72%	7
5	Tillsonburg	Ontario	71%	7
6	Innisfil	Ontario	70%	7
7	Brockville	Ontario	69%	7
8	Parksville	British Columbia	69%	7
9	Dieppe	New Brunswick	69%	7
10	Hamilton	Ontario	69%	7
11	Whitchurch-Stouffville	Ontario	68%	7
12	Arnprior	Ontario	68%	7
13	Wasaga Beach	Ontario	68%	7
14	Ponoka	Alberta	67%	7
15	Pickering	Ontario	67%	7
16	Cowansville	Quebec	67%	7
17	Kenora	Ontario	67%	7
18	Orangeville	Ontario	66%	7
19	Neepawa	Manitoba	65%	7
20	Salaberry-de-Valleyfield	Quebec	65%	7
21	Gatineau	Quebec	64%	7
22	Milton	Ontario	64%	7
23	Sarnia	Ontario	64%	7
24	Lethbridge	Alberta	63%	7
25	Prince Rupert	British Columbia	63%	7