Newfoundland and Labrador
OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Gander.
Gander sits at City Score rank #152 with a standing of 40%, 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. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #155 of 172 (2025); residential mill rate rank #70 of 172 (11.85 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 Gander.
Published residential mill-rate context for Gander.
Highway-side museum overlooking Gander Lake, with historic aircraft outside and a dedicated 9/11 display inside.
The boardwalk park for an ordinary Gander evening: walk the loop, claim a picnic table, catch a free summer concert.
Festival of Flight is the premier summer event, with Gander Day on the first Monday in August and a closing fireworks display.
Where Gander sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Gander grew up beside runways, and the town still introduces itself that way. Municipal history calls the jet-age stop the Crossroads of the World, and Gander International Airport remains the landmark you navigate by even when you are only heading to Memorial Drive or Elizabeth Drive. The International Lounge, North Atlantic Aviation Museum on the Trans-Canada, Heritage Memorial Park, and Silent Witnesses Memorial keep aviation memory on the ground, while Come From Away interpretive panels mark sites from the 2001 diversion week without needing a Broadway ticket. Aerospace still shows up on the town's business pages as a growth file, not only as nostalgia.
Summer belongs to Festival of Flight. Gander Day on the first Monday in August closes roads, fills parking lots, and ends in fireworks talk that locals treat as a central Newfoundland highlight. Between festival peaks, Cobb's Pond Rotary Park is the boardwalk default for walks and Concert in the Park nights, and Steele Community Centre covers indoor ice, Geek Fest, and the recreation-hub identity the town claims for the region. SnoBreak holds the winter carnival slot on the third weekend in February, which keeps the calendar from being only an August story.
Gander Lake sits just off the highway for marina and golf days, but the everyday map is airport, Cobb's Pond, and the Field Complex corner of Elizabeth and Memorial. The current OpenStats datapack has no City Score rank for Gander, so the profile stays with what the town publishes about itself: flights overhead, festival week in August, and a recreation calendar built for more than one postal code. Take away the airport and Festival of Flight and the hometown voice collapses.
Drawn from Town of Gander, History, Annual Events, Attractions, Parks and Playgrounds, CBC Newfoundland and Labrador.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 Gander in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Growth · OpenStats
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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
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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
MoneySense
Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
2 editions · 2017–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Town history pages still use Crossroads of the World for the era when transatlantic flights needed a Gander refueling stop.
Festival of Flight is the premier summer event, with Gander Day on the first Monday in August and a closing fireworks display.
Cobb's Pond Rotary Park offers a roughly four-kilometre boardwalk plus summer concert space.
Come From Away interpretive panels are installed around town at sites tied to the 2001 airport diversion story.
Still the geographic and identity anchor. The observation area and International Lounge turn a working airport into a hometown visit.
The boardwalk park for an ordinary Gander evening: walk the loop, claim a picnic table, catch a free summer concert.
Highway-side museum overlooking Gander Lake, with historic aircraft outside and a dedicated 9/11 display inside.
A quiet park remembering the 1985 Arrow Air crash, kept on the town attractions list beside the happier festival calendar.
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