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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.
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.