Ontario
OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Mississauga.
City Score #37 (2022) → #67 (2025)
Mississauga sits at City Score rank #67 with a standing of 53%, 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 30 places versus 2022 (#37 → #67).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #8 of 172 (2025); indoor radon rank #97 of 117 at 60 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #95 of 172 (10.34 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 Mississauga.
Published residential mill-rate context for Mississauga.
Downtown civic square beside City Centre where summer fitness classes, movie nights, and amphitheatre shows share the same open floor. It
The MiWay and Transitway hub next to Square One, with heated waiting areas and connections to GO and Brampton Transit. It is how a lot of
MiWay's MiSpot list names Celebration Square, Square One, Port Credit, and Brueckner Rhododendron Gardens as go-to destinations.
Where Mississauga sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Mississauga's local map often starts with MiWay. The City Centre Transit Terminal on Rathburn Road West is the main hub on the Mississauga Transitway, parked at the northwest corner of Square One, and Hurontario routes are among the corridor names on the board. A short walk puts you at Celebration Square on City Centre Drive, where summer programming runs from fountain hours to amphitheatre nights and the venue page still prints 311 as the number to call. MiWay's own MiSpot list treats Celebration Square, Square One, Port Credit, and Brueckner Rhododendron Gardens as the destinations people already argue about over coffee.
Neighbourhoods keep their own files. Port Credit is the waterfront shorthand on transit tips. Clarkson shows up when the City updates the Clarkson Village Study and when GO connections matter for longer trips. Cooksville joins that GO list in travel advice aimed at big-event weekends. Zonta Meadows Park is one of the active redevelopment projects on the civic homepage, proof that park files stay live even in a city this large. Peel remains the upper-tier word Mississauga News uses when school-board scholars or public notices need a wider frame.
The local news diet lately clusters around housing task-force recommendations, a council step toward pausing new data centres, rental cooling rules, and mapped auto-theft counts. Those are desk themes, not the whole personality. On the OpenStats City Score for 2026, Mississauga sits at rank 16 of 125. Rankings aside, the hometown read is a MiWay ride into City Centre, a square that hosts the summer calendar, and a Port Credit evening when you want the lake instead of the mall.
Drawn from City of Mississauga, City Centre Transit Terminal, Celebration Square, MiWay MiSpot, Mississauga 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
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.
7 editions · 2017–2024
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 Mississauga 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
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.
3 editions · 2024–2026
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
City Centre Transit Terminal is Mississauga's main MiWay hub on the 18 kilometre Mississauga Transitway, at the northwest corner of Square One.
MiWay's MiSpot list names Celebration Square, Square One, Port Credit, and Brueckner Rhododendron Gardens as go-to destinations.
Celebration Square's venue page lists 300 City Centre Drive and keeps 311 as the contact path for city limits callers.
Mississauga News fronts have been clustering council talk on data centres, rental cooling rules, and housing alongside Peel school-board stories.
Downtown civic square beside City Centre where summer fitness classes, movie nights, and amphitheatre shows share the same open floor. It is the event answer when someone asks what is on tonight.
Waterfront community MiWay treats as a favourite MiSpot. When City Centre feels like malls and buses, Port Credit is the lake-end reset on the same transit map.
The MiWay and Transitway hub next to Square One, with heated waiting areas and connections to GO and Brampton Transit. It is how a lot of Mississauga days actually begin.
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