British Columbia
OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Cranbrook.
City Score #19 (2022) → #48 (2025)
Cranbrook sits at City Score rank #48 with a standing of 56%, from 7 of 8 open-data pillars (tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, growth, safety). Missing pillars score at median standing so thin coverage cannot inflate the rank. Dropping 29 places versus 2022 (#19 → #48).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #95 of 172 (2025); residential mill rate rank #140 of 172 (8.25 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
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Documented pro, junior, university, and high-school teams tied to Cranbrook.
Published residential mill-rate context for Cranbrook.
Park with an amphitheatre on the special-event booking sheet and an active master-plan conversation. Outdoor shows have a named Cranbrook
A central community recreation park on the municipal list and zoning facts page. Picnic days and public gatherings still point here.
Municipal recreation copy counts about 28 citywide parks across roughly 160 hectares, plus three indoor arenas and Western Financial Place.
Where Cranbrook sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Cranbrook sits in East Kootenay news the way the Townsman masthead promises: a service hub that hears Wait Creek wildfire updates and Stage 2 watering restrictions in the same summer week. Highway 3/95 at 9th Avenue South is the drive-through orientation point on the city webcam list. Spirit of the Rockies shows up in the municipal community menu, but day-to-day life sounds more like Recreation & Culture program guides and whether Western Financial Place has ice, pool lanes, or a touring show.
The parks inventory is specific. Gyro Park is the classic community recreation park; Idlewild Park brings an amphitheatre; Rotary Park keeps a bandstand on the booking sheet; Moir Centennial Athletic Park handles the serious outdoor sport. Elizabeth Lake and the Community Forest add the quieter green. Baker Park sits on the same list that tourism materials pair with Baker Hill heritage walking. Across town, Key City Theatre and the History Centre cover stage and heritage nights, with College of the Rockies in the partner column.
Western Financial Place is the big-box civic room: aquatic centre, NHL-size ice, squash, restaurant, and meeting space under one roof. Cranbrook Arts exhibitions and Townsman entertainment listings keep culture from being only arena nights. Wildfire season still sets the regional mood, with Wasa and Ta Ta Creek evacuation orders travelling beside city watering rules. The hometown tell is East Kootenay framing, a named park with a bandstand or amphitheatre, and whether Western Financial Place is hosting swim lessons or a concert this weekend.
Drawn from City of Cranbrook, City of Cranbrook, Cranbrook Daily Townsman.
City Score from 2016–2025 across eight open-data pillars. Individual study placements are listed in the panels below.
Each study below is its own ranking. Where a study has more than one edition for this city, the chart shows standing across those years only.
sports · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities with a British Columbia Hockey League club in the OpenStats seed list ranked by regular-season points percentage. Rank 1 = highest points %. Source: Wikipedia BCHL season standings. Clubs in towns outside the seed list are omitted.
Single edition · 2025
Only one published edition places Cranbrook in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Connectivity · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities ranked by estimated best advertised download (Mbps). Anchored to the current ISED National Broadband Data vintage, then backcast along a national speed curve with city-specific fiber-arrival and 50/10 availability paths so relative ranks can change over the decade. Not a claim of audited historical hex maps for every year.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Construction · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities ranked by calendar-year building permit value. Direct rows sum Statistics Canada Table 34-10-0292-01. Cities without a direct reading use population × provincial per-capita permit intensity (estimated), so every seed city has a year-varying construction signal.
10 editions · 2016–2025
sports · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities with a Canadian Hockey League club ranked by regular-season points percentage (best club wins if several). Rank 1 = highest points %. Built from CHL standings and Wikipedia season pages. Cities without a CHL club are omitted.
3 editions · 2017–2019
Composite · OpenStats
OpenStats
Dimensional average of OpenStats open-data pillars for each panel year 2016–2025: tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, population growth, and crime severity. Each series is scored 0–1 within its edition; series in the same pillar are averaged, then all eight pillars are averaged with equal weight. Missing pillars score at median standing (0.5). Growth and CSI use StatCan annual tables; permits, mill rates, and broadband use live rows plus documented year-varying estimates where needed. Radon, water, and PGA may be survey/model vintages carried forward and are flagged when static for more than two years. External commercial livability lists are never inputs.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Safety · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index (Table 35-10-0026-01). Rank 1 is highest CSI (worse). Values are CMA where a metro match exists, otherwise provincial CSI. Hometown pages label the grain.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Water · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by municipal drinking-water hardness (mg/L as CaCO₃). Hardness changes slowly; the atlas vintage is carried across panel years and flagged when static for more than two years.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Water · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by reported lead (µg/L) on the OpenStats water atlas. Carried across panel years until annual municipal report panels are ingested.
10 editions · 2016–2025
sports · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities ranked by weighted count of documented local teams (pro, junior, university, high-school hubs). Rank 1 = deepest documented sports footprint among covered seed cities. Not a claim about on-field success. See sports methodology for weights and gaps.
Single edition · 2025
Only one published edition places Cranbrook in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Growth · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities ranked by year-over-year population growth from Statistics Canada annual CSD estimates (Table 17-10-0155-01). Rank 1 is fastest growth. A few places without a clean CSD match use a provincial-path estimate anchored to seed population.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Property tax · OpenStats
OpenStats
Municipalities ranked by residential mill rate. Rank 1 is the highest rate. Published municipal years are used when available; gaps are interpolated or follow the provincial median path so the tax pillar moves year to year for every city.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Hazards · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by NRCan peak ground acceleration (higher = stronger shaking hazard). Rank 1 is highest PGA. The seismic model is multi-year; values are carried across the City Score panel and flagged as static until NRCan publishes a new generation.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Livability
The Globe and Mail
2023 data partnership with Environics Analytics ranking 439 Canadian communities on ten livability categories.
Single edition · 2023
Only one published edition places Cranbrook in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Livability
Maclean's
Successor-style municipal livability ranking published by Maclean's for 2019 and 2021 (no 2020 edition).
Single edition · 2021
Only one published edition places Cranbrook in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Livability
MoneySense
Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
4 editions · 2014–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Municipal recreation copy counts about 28 citywide parks across roughly 160 hectares, plus three indoor arenas and Western Financial Place.
Gyro Park is explicitly framed as a Community Recreation (P2) park for public use, not a habitat preserve, which matches how locals actually use it.
The Townsman still titles itself East Kootenay News, so Cranbrook readers get Wasa and Wait Creek fire geography with their local desk.
Stage 2 watering restrictions arrive with odd/even day rules on the city homepage, summer civic language every lawn already understands.
Cranbrook's multi-purpose complex for swimming, NHL-size ice, squash, and events. It is the building people mean when they say they are heading to the arena or the pool.
A central community recreation park on the municipal list and zoning facts page. Picnic days and public gatherings still point here.
Park with an amphitheatre on the special-event booking sheet and an active master-plan conversation. Outdoor shows have a named Cranbrook address.
The municipal theatre listing for touring acts and local stages. Paired with the History Centre, it keeps downtown culture off the ice pad.
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