British Columbia
OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Port Alberni.
City Score #111 (2022) → #144 (2025)
Port Alberni sits at City Score rank #144 with a standing of 42%, 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. Dropping 33 places versus 2022 (#111 → #144).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #112 of 172 (2025); residential mill rate rank #167 of 172 (6.99 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 Port Alberni.
Published residential mill-rate context for Port Alberni.
Somass River waterfront park and retail walk at the foot of Johnston Road. Welcome Figures and summer markets make it the easy downtown
Creek-side dyke path that turns Kitsuksis Creek into a neighbourhood stroll. Pair it with the city's urban stream work for a local sense of
Victoria Quay sits on the Somass River at Johnston Road with Hupacasath Welcome Figures and a summer Sunset Craft Market.
Where Port Alberni sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Port Alberni sits at the head of the Alberni Inlet, where deep-sea water meets the Somass River and the wider Alberni Valley. Locals talk valley first. Victoria Quay puts a walkway and market strip on the Somass at Johnston Road, with Hupacasath Welcome Figures watching the estuary and a summer Sunset Craft Market filling the path. Harbour Quay and Clutesi Haven Marina keep the working waterfront in everyday language, while Kitsuksis Dyke Walkway follows Kitsuksis Creek through neighbourhood ground that still feels like a creek town rather than a highway stop.
Municipal pages still lead with Salmon Capital of the World, and the city partners on restoring Dry Creek, Kitsuksis Creek, and Roger Creek so coho, chum, pink, and chinook have a shot at urban spawning again. McLean Mill Historic Site on Smith Road keeps logging-era machines, forest trails, and mill buildings in the civic mix for school trips and weekend wanderers alike. Alberni Valley Museum anchors heritage indoors when the rain settles in, and Sproat Lake Provincial Park is the quick swim when the valley wants open water without leaving the Island map.
Summer calendars stack Salmon Festival and Thunder in the Valley drag races beside Tlu-piich Games coverage in the Alberni Valley News. FireSmart talk and West Coast General Hospital stories share the same local desk as Uptown Art District nights and Rotary derby chatter. This is an inlet town that measures itself by fish, timber memory, and whether the creeks still run right after a wet winter. Ask for directions and you will hear valley names before you hear a tourist slogan.
Drawn from City of Port Alberni - Local Attractions, City of Port Alberni - Stream Improvement Projects, Port Alberni Valley 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.
sports · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities with a British Columbia Hockey League club in the OpenStats seed list ranked by regular-season points percentage. Rank 1 = highest points %. Source: Wikipedia BCHL season standings. Clubs in towns outside the seed list are omitted.
Single edition · 2025
Only one published edition places Port Alberni in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
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
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
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 Port Alberni 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
Maclean's
Successor-style municipal livability ranking published by Maclean's for 2019 and 2021 (no 2020 edition).
Single edition · 2021
Only one published edition places Port Alberni in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Livability
MoneySense
Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
4 editions · 2014–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
City stream pages still brand Port Alberni as Salmon Capital of the World and point to Dry Creek, Kitsuksis Creek, and Roger Creek restoration work.
Victoria Quay sits on the Somass River at Johnston Road with Hupacasath Welcome Figures and a summer Sunset Craft Market.
McLean Mill Historic Site is a city-owned 32-acre logging heritage park operated with the McLean Mill Society.
Municipal festival notes pair Salmon Festival with Thunder in the Valley drag races on the Alberni Valley calendar.
Somass River waterfront park and retail walk at the foot of Johnston Road. Welcome Figures and summer markets make it the easy downtown shoreline stop.
Forest-edge heritage park with restored logging gear and trails on Smith Road. It is where valley timber history still has room to walk.
Creek-side dyke path that turns Kitsuksis Creek into a neighbourhood stroll. Pair it with the city's urban stream work for a local sense of place.
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