New Brunswick
OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Fredericton.
City Score #7 (2022) → #26 (2025)
Fredericton sits at City Score rank #26 with a standing of 60%, from 8 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 19 places versus 2022 (#7 → #26).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #60 of 172 (2025); indoor radon rank #51 of 117 at 118 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #115 of 172 (9.43 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 Fredericton.
Published residential mill-rate context for Fredericton.
Named recreation facility on the City recreation page. It gives the Nashwaaksis side of town an indoor landmark beside the river trail talk.
City recreation listing for paddling on the river system tourism calls the heart of the Capital Region. Locals treat the Wolastoq as
Tourism pairs Wolastoq with Saint John River as the regional heart, and City recreation lists Wolastoq Watershed Paddling Trails.
Where Fredericton sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Fredericton orients to the Wolastoq, also called the Saint John River, the way other capitals orient to a legislature lawn. Tourism copy puts the river at the heart of the Capital Region, and City recreation lists Wolastoq Watershed Paddling Trails beside arenas and pools. Downtown, Officers' Square carries the free summer concert series that fills evening calendars without a ticket booth argument. Guided Heritage Walking Tours keep the Loyalist and civic street story on the City's featured list. UNB sits in the Capital Region frame as the campus shorthand everyone already uses.
Day-to-day recreation spreads past the square. Nashwaaksis Fieldhouse is the named indoor facility on the City recreation page, Carleton Park shows up in the parks directory, and tourism boasts a trail network measured in more than 120 kilometres. The Nashwaak enters the same regional map as a named tributary. When people talk craft beer here, they mean the Fredericton Taproom Trail, a Capital Region Tourism route through local taprooms rather than a single downtown patio. Beaverbrook appears on City parks pages as part of the arts-and-gallery corridor locals already know.
Civic life has its own verbs. Engage Fredericton is the public-engagement platform for projects and consultations. Fredericton Transit covers the commute vocabulary. Housing-enabling infrastructure announcements and community-safety operations still lead City news the same week Officers' Square books another concert. On the OpenStats City Score for 2026, Fredericton sits at rank 105 of 125. Rankings aside, the hometown read is a capital that says Wolastoq first, walks Officers' Square in summer, and treats the Taproom Trail as local geography.
Drawn from City of Fredericton, City of Fredericton recreation, Fredericton Capital Region Tourism, CBC New Brunswick.
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
Health · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by Health Canada survey mean indoor radon (Bq/m³). Rank 1 is the highest mean. Decade panel years without a new survey carry the CMA survey vintage forward; they are not annual retests.
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 Fredericton in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
sports · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities with a Maritime Hockey League club in the OpenStats seed list ranked by regular-season points percentage. Rank 1 = highest points %. Source: Wikipedia MHL season standings (2022–23 through 2025–26). Clubs in towns outside the seed list are omitted.
3 editions · 2023–2025
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 Fredericton 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 Fredericton 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 pairs Wolastoq with Saint John River as the regional heart, and City recreation lists Wolastoq Watershed Paddling Trails.
Officers' Square hosts a free summer concert series featured on the City homepage.
The Fredericton Taproom Trail is Capital Region Tourism's named craft-brewery route.
Tourism cites a Capital Region trail network of more than 120 kilometres.
Downtown square that carries the free summer concert series. It is the evening civic lawn when the capital wants music without a ticket line.
City recreation listing for paddling on the river system tourism calls the heart of the Capital Region. Locals treat the Wolastoq as everyday geography, not only a postcard.
Named recreation facility on the City recreation page. It gives the Nashwaaksis side of town an indoor landmark beside the river trail talk.
Park listed in the municipal parks and trails directory. One of the concrete green names behind the Capital Region's long trail network claim.
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