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OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Iqaluit.
Iqaluit sits at City Score rank #172 with a standing of 33%, 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 #172 of 172 (2025); residential mill rate rank #34 of 172 (13.65 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 Iqaluit.
Published residential mill-rate context for Iqaluit.
The near-town hiking destination named on municipal visitor pages. A short jump from city streets into territorial park trail time.
A culture stop paired with Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum on the City's explore list. Useful orientation without leaving the capital.
Summer in the Square returns with a chili cook-off and a local vendor market on the civic calendar.
Where Iqaluit sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Iqaluit is Nunavut's capital, and the City still talks to Iqalummiut in a northern register. The recreation header lists a blizzard information line beside RCMP and fire numbers, a small tell that weather can rewrite the day. Municipal life runs through places with Inuktitut names in ordinary use: Makkuttukkuvik Youth Centre, Elder's Qammaq, Abe Okpik Hall, and the Iqaluit Aquatic Centre inside the Arctic Winter Games Complex orbit. Leave No Trace notes on the facilities page even talk about being on the land and at trailheads, which is how recreation is framed here. City Hall sits on Mivvik Street. Plateau Subdivision is the planning name you hear when housing and lots are the file.
Warm months bring Summer in the Square, with a chili cook-off and a local market that City news treats as a civic appointment, not a tourist add-on. Explore pages point visitors and residents alike to Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park for hiking, Unikkaarvik Visitor Centre and Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum for culture stops, and boat trips out to Qaummaarvik Park. Alianait! still names the arts-festival Big Top in municipal visitor copy. Boat storage is its own planning conversation on the City news list, because getting on the water is part of how the town works. Qikiqtani General Hospital anchors health headlines when Nunatsiaq covers local partnerships, and housing demand keeps showing up in the same local news weather.
OpenStats has no City Score placement for Iqaluit in the current datapack. The hometown read stays northern and specific: blizzard phones, Iqalummiut recreation buildings, Summer in the Square, and trails that lead toward Sylvia Grinnell rather than a suburban beltway.
Drawn from City of Iqaluit, City of Iqaluit recreation, Explore Iqaluit, Summer in the Square, Nunatsiaq News.
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
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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
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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 Iqaluit 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
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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
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
City recreation pages address residents as Iqalummiut and list a dedicated blizzard information number in the header.
Summer in the Square returns with a chili cook-off and a local vendor market on the civic calendar.
Facility rentals run through the Arctic Winter Games Complex recreation reception centre.
Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park is named on the City's Explore Iqaluit page for hiking near town.
The near-town hiking destination named on municipal visitor pages. A short jump from city streets into territorial park trail time.
The busy recreation hub for swim bookings and guest services. Hours run long because the pool carries a lot of winter social life.
A culture stop paired with Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum on the City's explore list. Useful orientation without leaving the capital.
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