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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176	Norfolk, ON	103	151	112	94	180	131	41	187	46	54	163
90	Collingwood, ON	21	152	63	66	86	71	102	86	86	129	47
48	Aurora, ON	159	153	3	32	12	81	7	110	47	96	17
78	Milton, ON	174	154	16	32	30	163	3	110	35	44	54
12	St. Albert, AB	170	154	9	10	100	31	76	46	50	22	49
57	Whitehorse, YT	19	156	51	5	1	110	175	89	164	33	9
174	Abbotsford-Mission, BC	172	157	90	56	179	14	113	153	134	152	128
166	Brampton, ON	188	157	39	95	109	158	16	110	18	154	140
37	Halton Hills, ON	161	159	12	38	54	22	3	110	42	63	74
73	Courtenay, BC	18	160	132	125	182	4	125	29	97	106	69
97	Cranbrook, BC	48	161	126	73	172	85	164	17	38	56	136
80	Maple Ridge, BC	169	162	53	30	153	47	122	60	149	28	73
54	Mississauga, ON	181	163	30	115	28	22	16	110	5	143	74
61	Salmon Arm, BC	32	164	152	84	183	22	142	15	13	96	83
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
87	Port Coquitlam, BC	173	167	45	78	135	17	69	60	145	91	57
82	Caledon, ON	187	168	7	45	60	80	1	110	67	38	48
111	Langley, BC	171	169	35	40	150	68	153	60	129	21	65
74	Nanaimo, BC	76	169	145	61	127	35	155	42	110	63	50
132	Penticton	9	169	160	101	186	103	165	31	23	121	110
168	Surrey, BC	179	172	56	61	102	153	144	60	120	82	108
123	Duncan, BC	75	173	135	69	158	71	177	38	32	112	56
149	Montreal, QC	25	174	165	165	29	115	94	75	94	175	5
182	Squamish, BC	110	175	52	27	164	125	149	132	151	146	15
102	Vaughan, ON	190	176	10	97	19	157	7	110	12	77	50
127	Vernon, BC	56	177	127	50	184	41	159	32	20	177	106
29	Canmore, AB	3	178	6	3	144	110	76	7	101	5	4
47	Toronto, ON	60	178	48	28	31	71	61	110	25	156	6
35	Victoria, BC	1	180	179	86	175	104	167	19	4	79	3
137	Markham, ON	189	180	14	49	2	144	7	110	47	156	35
64	Delta, BC	164	182	44	23	146	92	51	60	37	32	42
96	Coquitlam, BC	165	183	65	72	113	51	59	60	143	61	39
100	Richmond, BC	154	184	92	132	5	28	7	60	90	121	35
144	Kelowna, BC	124	185	98	54	168	59	157	85	52	127	52
15	Saanich, BC	26	186	64	19	160	122	33	19	6	68	17
85	North Vancouver, BC	155	187	13	15	116	109	67	60	127	56	2
135	Burnaby, BC	150	188	109	131	94	41	92	60	121	138	24
112	Richmond Hill, ON	186	189	17	58	11	115	83	110	47	129	31
56	Vancouver, BC	6	190	72	41	91	75	123	60	106	112	1

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

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