Nelson sits at City Score rank #326 with a standing of 38%, from 6 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: indoor radon rank #18 of 327 at 191 Bq/m³ survey mean. Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
On the latest OpenStats pass, Nelson carries a City Score standing of 38% (rank #326 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 10 points below the British Columbia peer average across 58 ranked cities. Within British Columbia, Nelson ranks #53 of 58 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is seismic hazard (standing 83%, rank #284 of 343, raw score 0.03). The weakest observed pillar is indoor radon (standing 6%, rank #18 of 327). Crime severity uses the Statistics Canada police-service CSI mapped to Nelson, British Columbia, municipal (table 35100063), not a regional proxy.
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 167 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Nelson. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
