Best Places to Live 2012

Best Places to Live compiles municipal data and information from Statistic Canada and other sources. Numbers below represent rankings out of 190 cities. Where statistics are only available by province, provincial rankings are shown. Some cities have the same ranks because they are tied. For full methodology, click here.

Click headings to reorder columns. Numbers represent ranking out of 190 cities.

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Overall rank	City	Walk/Bike To Work	Affordable Housing	Household Income	Discretionary Income	New Cars	Pop. Growth	Low Crime	Doctors Per 1,000	Weather	Jobless Rate	Culture
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177	Campbellton, AB	73	29	183	190	51	164	134	14	166	187	163
42	Waterloo, ON	29	101	32	53	52	124	47	161	98	72	21
62	North Bay, ON	27	81	136	106	53	131	57	92	167	19	136
37	Halton Hills, ON	161	159	12	38	54	22	3	110	42	63	74
183	Bay Roberts, NL	149	70	59	187	55	88	64	189	93	190	159
129	Saint-Hyacinthe, QC	22	92	169	173	56	92	53	39	133	143	155
22	Oshawa, ON	153	71	66	43	57	43	18	175	9	127	66
38	Yellowknife, NT	2	94	5	1	58	101	187	42	146	121	8
14	Calgary, AB	123	119	8	7	59	95	37	59	71	42	25
82	Caledon, ON	187	168	7	45	60	80	1	110	67	38	48
104	Charlottetown, PE	46	94	119	148	61	11	128	46	182	164	35
92	Cobourg, ON	14	148	114	104	62	119	99	134	7	135	61
159	Bathurst, NB	117	10	161	184	63	164	123	25	152	149	183
126	Cold Lake, AB	80	104	19	12	63	147	169	158	109	4	128
109	Sorel-Tracy, QC	64	33	166	175	65	104	63	150	43	160	148
116	Grand Falls-Windsor, NL	85	34	69	164	66	125	56	1	157	178	179
99	Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC	107	85	133	155	67	44	72	107	140	112	111
93	Ajax, ON	178	116	28	90	68	159	18	110	8	133	79
141	Val-d'Or, QC	38	51	149	152	69	100	114	139	181	33	91
140	Cowansville, QC	11	53	180	182	70	104	35	2	188	79	174
59	Saint John, NB	93	23	103	140	71	75	153	37	165	102	133
7	Fredericton, NB	50	20	83	134	72	30	103	74	154	47	30
43	Estevan, SK	134	43	22	116	72	28	171	185	54	1	111
94	Trois-Rivi?res, QC	97	27	174	167	74	62	62	107	146	152	91
190	New Glasgow, NS	135	28	172	176	75	164	150	132	162	182	138
154	Edmundston, NB	120	4	178	181	76	164	60	4	180	158	151
108	Rivi?re-du-Loup, QC	40	40	167	179	77	59	87	13	168	149	161
181	Cape Breton, NS	131	1	182	157	78	164	81	102	183	184	174
145	Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, QC	94	43	171	171	79	131	120	46	56	155	169
163	Granby, QC	115	60	147	165	80	4	34	136	179	172	97
69	Pickering, ON	181	110	23	86	81	131	18	110	9	141	23
120	Barrie, ON	162	115	58	26	82	44	65	166	76	167	83
86	Port Hope, ON	101	138	94	48	83	164	14	160	2	56	25
134	Lachute, QC	41	30	184	188	84	35	119	56	170	129	145
143	Elliot Lake, ON	7	8	188	113	84	164	112	178	117	182	87
90	Collingwood, ON	21	152	63	66	86	71	102	86	86	129	47
106	Drummondville, QC	97	35	173	174	87	22	86	167	159	65	119
173	Miramichi, NB	130	20	162	141	88	164	111	40	174	165	167
171	Temiskaming Shores, ON	10	80	159	110	89	164	138	151	132	129	182
31	Guelph, ON	72	141	54	58	90	47	28	127	123	28	42
56	Vancouver, BC	6	190	72	41	91	75	123	60	106	112	1
8	Edmonton, AB	108	124	40	22	92	68	109	46	41	33	38
162	Dolbeau-Mistassini, QC	12	7	181	179	92	164	52	124	60	186	176
135	Burnaby, BC	150	188	109	131	94	41	92	60	121	138	24
125	Fort St. John, BC	86	100	38	55	95	62	180	174	70	72	179
95	Grande Prairie, AB	144	60	11	14	96	152	171	106	85	28	145
55	Peterborough, ON	35	110	107	64	97	110	76	91	63	100	69
98	Lloydminster, AB, SK	143	42	26	24	98	115	178	161	119	5	121
65	Victoriaville, QC	36	17	175	163	99	8	28	41	176	117	142
12	St. Albert, AB	170	154	9	10	100	31	76	46	50	22	49

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For the full methodology on how we crunched our numbers, click here.

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