City Rank Canada

Your priorities

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Safety

Jobs & economy

Housing cost

Climate

Air quality

Traffic

Amenities

Rankings

Default weights Compare the top 3 side by side →

All scores 0–100 (higher is better), relative to the other cities. “—” means no data for that category; the overall score then uses the remaining categories.
#	City	Overall	Safety	Jobs & economy	Housing cost	Climate	Air quality	Traffic	Amenities
1	CalgaryAB	71	67	78	66	75	66	75	63
2	MiltonON · GTA	70	100	64	53	57	85	96	1
3	OshawaON	66	81	47	62	61	96	88	17
4	OakvilleON · GTA	66	100	57	53	62	75	64	19
5	ReginaSK	65	34	76	73	53	96	100	18
6	PickeringON · GTA	65	81	70	53	63	89	51	12
7	SherbrookeQC	64	70	62	82	31	94	71	8
8	HamiltonON	64	71	46	77	61	86	63	26
9	St. Catharines–NiagaraON	63	71	37	74	58	87	92	5
10	OttawaON	62	72	56	62	43	95	51	62
11	AjaxON · GTA	62	81	56	53	60	89	54	14
12	Québec CityQC	61	66	72	59	36	79	70	24
13	HalifaxNS	61	55	74	49	39	100	79	25
14	Richmond HillON · GTA	60	75	54	53	56	88	44	33
15	SaskatoonSK	59	22	74	66	46	96	98	13
16	EdmontonAB	59	31	68	68	46	79	81	51
17	MarkhamON · GTA	59	75	52	53	52	89	36	47
18	Kitchener–WaterlooON	57	58	57	61	48	95	39	27
19	VictoriaBC	57	53	63	41	75	62	69	24
20	TorontoON · GTA	57	63	46	53	62	81	32	76
21	WindsorON	57	70	42	70	53	54	55	32
22	VaughanON · GTA	56	75	54	53	52	75	19	48
23	MontréalQC	55	59	52	39	43	68	74	90
24	BramptonON · GTA	53	65	44	53	54	75	30	31
25	WinnipegMB	51	0	73	70	42	95	39	50
26	LondonON	50	60	34	57	46	95	33	15
27	MississaugaON · GTA	49	65	36	53	50	75	0	50
28	VancouverBC	43	49	55	47	60	0	11	51
29	KelownaBC	39	30	35	29	75	0	85	6

How the score works

Metric scores. For each measurement, the best city gets 100 and the worst gets 0; others are placed proportionally in between. For things like crime or rent, lower values score higher.
Category scores. Each category is the average of its metric scores.
Overall score. A weighted average of category scores using your priorities. If a city has no data for a category, the other categories are re-weighted for that city.

GTA cities. Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Markham, Vaughan, Oakville, Richmond Hill, Milton, Ajax and Pickering are ranked separately. Each has its own weather, air quality, amenities, traffic and population figures, and the crime index of its police service (several cities share one: Peel, York, Halton or Durham Regional Police). Jobs and rent are only published for the whole Toronto metro area, so those values are the same for all ten and are labelled “Toronto metro”. Oshawa's safety score uses Durham Regional Police.

Category	What it measures	Metrics
Safety	Police-reported crime, weighted by seriousness.	Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index
Jobs & economy	Labour market strength and population growth.	Unemployment rate, Employment rate, Population growth
Housing cost	Average rent and how fast it is rising.	Average 2-bedroom rent, Rent change
Climate	Extreme cold/heat, snow, wet days and sunshine over the past year.	Extreme cold days, Hot days, Snowfall, Wet days, Sunshine
Air quality	Fine-particle (PM2.5) pollution over the past 90 days.	PM2.5 (90-day mean)
Traffic	Rush-hour road congestion measured by TomTom.	Rush-hour congestion
Amenities	Parks, healthcare, schools and transit stops near downtown.	Parks, Hospitals & clinics, Schools, Transit stops

Data sources

The pipeline runs every hour. Yearly and monthly statistics are only re-downloaded when they may have changed.

Source	Last run	Data fetched	Refresh
Open-Meteo Forecast API	updated	2026-11-13T09:45:56Z	every run
Open-Meteo Historical Weather API	cached	2026-11-13T01:58:36Z	every 12 hours
Open-Meteo Air Quality API	updated	2026-11-13T09:45:56Z	every 6 hours
Statistics Canada – Crime Severity Index (35-10-0026-01, 35-10-0188-01)	cached	2026-11-11T22:53:49Z	every 7 days
Statistics Canada – Labour Force Survey (14-10-0459-01)	cached	2026-11-12T12:58:41Z	daily
Statistics Canada – Population estimates (17-10-0148-01, 17-10-0155-01)	cached	2026-11-11T22:53:49Z	every 7 days
CMHC average rents via Statistics Canada (34-10-0133-01)	cached	2026-11-11T22:53:49Z	every 7 days
OpenStreetMap via Overpass API	cached	2026-11-11T22:53:49Z	every 7 days
TomTom Traffic Flow API	updated	2026-11-13T09:45:56Z	every run