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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56	Vancouver, BC	6	190	72	41	91	75	123	60	106	112	1
85	North Vancouver, BC	155	187	13	15	116	109	67	60	127	56	2
35	Victoria, BC	1	180	179	86	175	104	167	19	4	79	3
29	Canmore, AB	3	178	6	3	144	110	76	7	101	5	4
149	Montreal, QC	25	174	165	165	29	115	94	75	94	175	5
47	Toronto, ON	60	178	48	28	31	71	61	110	25	156	6
1	Ottawa, ON	39	134	36	43	15	14	27	18	65	60	7
38	Yellowknife, NT	2	94	5	1	58	101	187	42	146	121	8
57	Whitehorse, YT	19	156	51	5	1	110	175	89	164	33	9
28	Gatineau, QC	132	56	77	147	16	34	76	148	63	91	10
70	Stratford, ON	5	131	102	89	140	125	75	28	155	56	11
105	Centre Wellington, ON	105	146	42	34	139	104	2	179	142	22	12
17	Oakville, ON	167	165	2	30	14	44	3	110	1	91	13
101	New Westminster, BC	114	166	106	102	145	98	136	60	122	69	14
182	Squamish, BC	110	175	52	27	164	125	149	132	151	146	15
4	Halifax, NS	24	94	79	130	8	65	116	9	88	42	16
23	Quebec, QC	30	118	138	150	7	56	38	22	184	28	17
48	Aurora, ON	159	153	3	32	12	81	7	110	47	96	17
15	Saanich, BC	26	186	64	19	160	122	33	19	6	68	17
115	Brossard, QC	160	123	50	128	21	75	53	75	152	146	20
42	Waterloo, ON	29	101	32	53	52	124	47	161	98	72	21
34	Yorkton, SK	87	25	120	127	159	68	185	94	73	52	22
69	Pickering, ON	181	110	23	86	81	131	18	110	9	141	23
135	Burnaby, BC	150	188	109	131	94	41	92	60	121	138	24
14	Calgary, AB	123	119	8	7	59	95	37	59	71	42	25
86	Port Hope, ON	101	138	94	48	83	164	14	160	2	56	25
5	Regina, SK	104	78	43	81	130	1	143	73	94	9	27
113	Okotoks, AB	152	145	18	4	108	162	115	182	33	16	28
155	Longueuil, QC	138	132	148	158	50	138	53	75	144	135	29
7	Fredericton, NB	50	20	83	134	72	30	103	74	154	47	30
112	Richmond Hill, ON	186	189	17	58	11	115	83	110	47	129	31
136	Dollard-Des Ormeaux, QC	180	136	41	143	17	122	94	75	92	146	31
33	Rimouski, QC	16	47	156	159	34	81	30	11	113	173	31
2	Burlington, ON	163	136	20	29	44	17	3	54	2	38	34
100	Richmond, BC	154	184	92	132	5	28	7	60	90	121	35
137	Markham, ON	189	180	14	49	2	144	7	110	47	156	35
104	Charlottetown, PE	46	94	119	148	61	11	128	46	182	164	35
8	Edmonton, AB	108	124	40	22	92	68	109	46	41	33	38
96	Coquitlam, BC	165	183	65	72	113	51	59	60	143	61	39
13	Newmarket, ON	151	143	15	66	32	2	7	110	19	82	40
16	Whitby, ON	183	112	24	39	35	35	18	175	9	82	40
64	Delta, BC	164	182	44	23	146	92	51	60	37	32	42
31	Guelph, ON	72	141	54	58	90	47	28	127	123	28	42
3	Kingston, ON	12	113	86	47	110	65	66	4	51	65	44
10	Winnipeg, MB	99	76	78	124	112	58	130	46	36	47	44
58	St. John's, NL	117	99	37	153	4	14	127	24	186	106	46
90	Collingwood, ON	21	152	63	66	86	71	102	86	86	129	47
82	Caledon, ON	187	168	7	45	60	80	1	110	67	38	48
12	St. Albert, AB	170	154	9	10	100	31	76	46	50	22	49
102	Vaughan, ON	190	176	10	97	19	157	7	110	12	77	50

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

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