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Canada's Highest NorthScore Communities

The NorthScore composite ranks every community in Canada on six livability dimensions: daily amenity access, climate comfort, safety, environmental health, hazard resilience, and infrastructure. These communities score highest — nationally.

Scope: Canada Communities ranked: 1,565 Showing: Top 25 Data: 2021 Census · StatCan PMD · CMHC · NRCan
Why Ontario dominates the top 25: NorthScore measures livability, not affordability. Ontario suburbs score highly on amenity access (dense services), safety (lower CSI relative to national peers), and environmental health. BC communities appear lower partly due to seismic exposure — a 15–35 point penalty on the hazard resilience component that coastal BC cannot escape.
# Community NorthScore
1 Brampton — BramaleaON 80/100
2 Mississauga — NortheastON 79/100
3 BarrieON 78/100
4 Brampton — Heart LakeON 78/100
5 Mississauga — MaltonON 77/100
6 Mississauga — Erin Mills NorthON 77/100
7 Oakville SouthON 77/100
8 Brampton NorthON 77/100
9 Brampton SouthON 77/100
10 Holland LandingON 76/100
11 Richmond HillON 76/100
12 Mississauga — HurontarioON 76/100
13 Mississauga — ClarksonON 76/100
14 Mississauga — FairviewON 76/100
15 Mississauga — LisgarON 76/100
16 Thornhill — VaughanON 75/100
17 MidlandON 75/100
18 Mississauga — Churchill MeadowsON 75/100
19 Brampton — SandalwoodON 75/100
20 Brampton NortheastON 75/100
21 Brampton — Gore RoadON 75/100
22 Burlington SouthON 75/100
23 Toronto — Maple LeafON 75/100
24 Toronto — DanforthON 75/100
25 Toronto — AlderwoodON 75/100

NorthScore is a percentile-ranked composite index computed from Statistics Canada PMD 2021, Crime Severity Index, ECCC Climate Normals, AQHI, NPRI, NRCan seismic/flood/wildfire/tsunami data, CMHC, and GTFS transit data. Scores are percentile-ranked within Canada. A score of 75 means “better than 75% of populated communities in Canada.” Source data: Statistics Canada open government licence.