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OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Dawson Creek.
City Score #92 (2022) → #135 (2025)
Dawson Creek sits at City Score rank #135 with a standing of 44%, 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 43 places versus 2022 (#92 → #135).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #133 of 172 (2025); residential mill rate rank #152 of 172 (7.65 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 Dawson Creek.
Published residential mill-rate context for Dawson Creek.
Tourism's downtown walk for railway, highway, and storefront chapters without needing a guided bus.
City park tied to new multi-use sport courts in civic infrastructure talk, close to the Kin Arena sports-floor scene.
Getting-here copy calls Dawson Creek the Capital of the Peace for sitting at Highways 97, 49, and 2.
Where Dawson Creek sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Dawson Creek introduces itself two ways at once. Tourism hangs a Mile 0 sign on the Alaska Highway story, while City Hall recruitment talks about Start Something in DC. Both frames fit a place that sits at a Peace Region crossroads: Highway 97 running south toward Prince George and north as the Alaska Highway, Highway 49 pointing at the Alberta Peace, and Highway 2 tying the town toward Grande Prairie. Locals and visitor copy still reach for Capital of the Peace when they mean this highway hub, not a postcard slogan pasted on any northern town.
Work here still reads like a South Peace mix. Municipal pages name agriculture, forestry, oil and gas, wood products, and a growing renewable-energy lane beside education and health care. Northern Lights College keeps trades and academic traffic on campus, and the Dawson Creek & District Hospital rebuild shows up in the same civic investment list as Kin Park sport courts and flood planning. When the calendar turns loud, it is the Dawson Creek Exhibition & Stampede, Mile Zero Market, and nights at the Ovintiv Events Centre, with Bear Mountain Ski Hill for the colder months.
The longer memory sits in the Peace River region and Treaty 8 territory the city acknowledges as home to Cree, Dane-Zaa, Saulteau, Sikanni, and Slavey First Nations, with Métis families gathering here too. Downtown keeps a Historic Walking Tour for anyone who wants the railway-and-highway chapters without a museum lecture. Energetic City and Alaska Highway News still treat Dawson Creek as South Peace news country. If someone says DC, Mile 0, and Kin Park in the same breath, they are already speaking local.
Drawn from Tourism Dawson Creek, City of Dawson Creek, City of Dawson Creek, City of Dawson Creek.
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.
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
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 Dawson Creek 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
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 Dawson Creek 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.
Tourism sells a Mile 0 adventure on the Alaska Highway, while City Hall recruitment shortens the hometown to DC.
Getting-here copy calls Dawson Creek the Capital of the Peace for sitting at Highways 97, 49, and 2.
Community-profile recreation jumps from Bear Mountain Ski Hill to concerts at the Ovintiv Events Centre.
Start Something in DC lists agriculture, forestry, oil and gas, and renewables beside Northern Lights College and hospital investment.
The big-room stop when a show or tournament lands in town, named right in the city's community profile.
City park tied to new multi-use sport courts in civic infrastructure talk, close to the Kin Arena sports-floor scene.
Tourism's downtown walk for railway, highway, and storefront chapters without needing a guided bus.
Named market date on the summer calendar, sitting beside stampede and ranch-rodeo listings.
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