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OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for London.
City Score #24 (2022) → #57 (2025)
London sits at City Score rank #57 with a standing of 55%, 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 33 places versus 2022 (#24 → #57).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #13 of 172 (2025); indoor radon rank #81 of 117 at 85 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #9 of 172 (16.76 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 London.
Published residential mill-rate context for London.
The asphalt trail Londoners shorten to TVP, running parkland along the Thames with river crossings and links into neighbourhood paths.
A TVP segment near the Greenway Wastewater Treatment Plant where flood-protection construction has been a multi-year neighbour. The pathway
Springbank Dam decommissioning under the One River plan still triggers TVP detours through Springbank Park as restoration wraps.
Where London sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Londoners organize a surprising amount of weekend life around the Thames River and the asphalt ribbon beside it. The Thames Valley Parkway, usually just the TVP, runs about 45 kilometres through parkland along the river's branches and links into a much larger pathway web. City construction notes still apologize to Londoners when Greenway Park work raises the noise, and Springbank Park stays in the same breath because Springbank Dam partial removal under the One River plan keeps closing and reopening bits of trail. Storybook Gardens sits inside the Springbank amenities list, so family plans and pathway detours collide on the same west-end map.
Civic summer copy is cheerful and practical: neighbourhood park celebrations, outdoor pools, outdoor movie nights, and the Green Bin program sitting in the waste quick links. Harris Park shows up when river-corridor updates need another named bank. On the sports pages, the Free Press keeps the London Knights and London Majors in regular rotation, and Ribfest still earns a photo package when the meat-lovers weekend wraps. Port Stanley appears as a lake day outing in the same paper, the nearby beach London readers already know without a brochure.
Election season adds its own vocabulary. The City is already pointing people to the October 2026 municipal vote, and the Free Press has been testing whether strong mayor powers will matter on the ballot. On the OpenStats City Score for 2026, London sits at rank 34 of 125. Rankings aside, the hometown read is a river you walk beside, a parkway you call the TVP, and junior hockey you follow by the Knights name alone.
Drawn from City of London, Thames Valley Parkway, Parks in London, London Free Press.
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
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.
8 editions · 2017–2025
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 London 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
Housing
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Average rent for purpose-built 2-bedroom apartments (all tenants) from CMHC Rental Market Survey. Rank 1 = lowest average rent among covered CMAs.
Single edition · 2025
Only one published edition places London in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Housing
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Purpose-built rental apartment vacancy rate from CMHC Rental Market Survey (October). Rank 1 = highest vacancy (most available rental stock among covered CMAs).
2 editions · 2024–2025
Livability
MoneySense
Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
4 editions · 2014–2018
Quality of life
Numbeo
Crowd-sourced composite Quality of Life Index. Historical snapshots are free on Numbeo ranking pages; OpenStats cites Canadian cities from those public pages (cite_only). Higher index scores are better; ranks are global position on the snapshot page.
2 editions · 2025–2026
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
The Thames Valley Parkway is the City's primary multi-use trail at about 45 kilometres, linked to more than 150 kilometres of additional pathways.
Springbank Dam decommissioning under the One River plan still triggers TVP detours through Springbank Park as restoration wraps.
Springbank Park's published amenities include Storybook Gardens alongside fields, paths, and a bandshell.
Free Press sports desks treat the London Knights and London Majors as standing local beats, not visiting attractions.
The asphalt trail Londoners shorten to TVP, running parkland along the Thames with river crossings and links into neighbourhood paths. Construction seasons make detour literacy part of the hobby.
A major west-end park on Commissioners Road West with Storybook Gardens in the amenity mix. Dam work and pathway repairs keep it in civic conversation even when you only came to walk.
A TVP segment near the Greenway Wastewater Treatment Plant where flood-protection construction has been a multi-year neighbour. The pathway stays in use while the machinery does not.
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