Best Places to Raise Kids 2012

Best Places to Raise Kids 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. Weightings and categories for this list differ from Best Places to Live ranking. For full methodology, click here.

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

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Overall Rank	City	% of Pop. 14 or Under	Daycare Per 1,000	Students % of Pop.	Average House Price	Household Income	Crime	Health	Jobless Rate	Climate	Culture
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1	Strathcona County	27	7	4	152	4	53	32	17	47	69
2	Burlington	77	9	3	153	20	1	79	38	6	34
3	Calgary	50	7	4	164	8	35	69	42	62	25
4	Red Deer	52	7	4	119	31	168	52	17	42	83
5	St. Albert	41	7	4	173	9	94	24	22	44	49
6	Winnipeg	80	5	7	87	78	86	32	47	33	44
7	Regina	57	12	2	104	43	150	58	9	87	27
8	Brandon	75	5	7	35	110	133	43	12	59	105
9	Ottawa	102	9	3	139	36	22	46	60	71	7
10	Edmonton	105	7	4	134	40	111	39	33	41	38
11	Lethbridge	36	7	4	94	61	102	97	10	64	88
12	Whitby	28	9	3	143	24	15	168	82	9	40
13	Levis	91	1	5	89	88	33	12	10	185	52
14	Oakville	29	9	3	183	2	1	139	91	5	13
15	Newmarket	32	9	3	159	15	10	132	82	20	40
16	Repentigny	113	1	5	91	60	48	44	72	124	100
17	Clarington	31	9	3	133	34	15	161	65	17	100
18	Gatineau	83	1	5	74	77	58	153	91	69	10
19	Kingston	139	9	3	102	86	29	4	65	53	44
20	Medicine Hat	40	7	4	79	49	129	113	61	70	138
21	Yellowknife	24	2	1	151	5	189	51	121	142	8
22	Swift Current	71	12	2	22	74	172	78	3	85	117
23	Saskatoon	56	12	2	130	47	125	19	38	79	57
24	Terrebonne	49	1	5	93	62	51	81	47	140	99
25	Yorkton	26	12	2	27	120	188	62	52	62	22
26	Fredericton	180	6	8	32	83	94	96	47	152	30
27	Laval	84	1	5	113	84	24	81	82	77	66
28	Grande Prairie	8	7	4	112	11	176	116	28	82	145
29	Brantford	61	9	3	71	91	77	148	102	34	128
30	Lacombe	9	7	4	137	29	119	91	27	67	102
31	Halton Hills	11	9	3	172	12	1	146	63	51	74
32	Moncton	126	6	8	24	104	110	17	106	176	61
33	Blainville	10	1	5	127	27	40	48	102	158	91
34	Thunder Bay	148	9	3	25	116	103	55	82	37	95
35	Halifax	141	10	10	95	79	106	10	42	76	16
36	Aurora	19	9	3	175	3	9	144	96	48	17
37	Milton	20	9	3	167	16	1	145	44	35	54
38	Sarnia	117	9	3	35	71	60	128	69	29	133
39	Portage la Prairie	42	5	7	13	143	167	72	33	27	117
40	Oshawa	120	9	3	88	66	15	184	127	9	66
41	Moose Jaw	61	12	2	38	97	150	106	19	61	88
42	Pickering	81	9	3	141	23	15	125	141	9	23
43	London	106	9	3	72	76	73	20	160	137	77
44	Sault Ste. Marie	156	9	3	7	130	60	114	45	126	114
45	Lloydminster	5	7	4	76	26	183	181	5	122	121
46	Saint-Georges	115	1	5	14	150	38	25	47	150	145
47	Guelph	85	9	3	135	54	23	126	28	132	42
48	Steinbach	18	5	7	85	100	113	85	14	14	61
49	Ajax	25	9	3	136	28	15	131	133	8	79
50	Saint John	95	6	8	28	103	140	30	102	164	133

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

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