British Columbia
OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Abbotsford.
Abbotsford sits at City Score rank #17 with a standing of 62%, 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. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #39 of 172 (2025); indoor radon rank #94 of 117 at 61 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #155 of 172 (7.53 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 Abbotsford.
Published residential mill-rate context for Abbotsford.
A working arterial that keeps showing up in enhancement and funding news. Getting across town still means knowing how Fraser Highway is
The named core district with its own parking and services identity on city pages. It is the walkable counterweight to farm roads and
Municipal farm stats highlight thousands of hectares in blueberry and raspberry production alongside major poultry numbers.
Where Abbotsford sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Abbotsford, or Abby if you read the local masthead, introduces itself as farm country first. City agriculture pages call it one of the most intensively and diversely farmed areas in Canada, with about 72 percent of the municipal land base inside the Agricultural Land Reserve. Blueberries and raspberries take serious acreage, poultry barns are part of the economic count, and AgRefresh keeps ALR zoning and compliance on the planning desk. Tourism Abbotsford brands the same story as Handmade & Homegrown and Heart of the Fraser Valley, with an acknowledgement of Semá:th and Máthxwi territories under that hospitality pitch.
August still rearranges the calendar. The Abbotsford International Airshow fills the sky with Snowbirds, CF-18 demos, and a food-truck field big enough to feel like its own festival, while Agrifair keeps the agricultural fair tradition on the Abbotsford News photo desk. Between those weekends, Go! Abbotsford is the civic events brand for everything from culture programming to farm experiences. Historic Downtown has its own parking and services identity, and Fraser Highway shows up in infrastructure funding notices as the corridor that needs constant work.
Summer civic life also sounds like water and smoke talk. Stage 2 outdoor water restrictions travel as Abbotsford and Mission messaging under Our Water Matters, and High fire-danger ratings sit on the city homepage when the hills dry out. The OpenStats City Score ranks Abbotsford 51 of 125 in 2026, with a strong building-permit placement in the same datapack. The hometown tell is simpler: berry trucks on ALR roads, Airshow weekend traffic, and an Abby News habit of treating farm and flight as the same community beat.
Drawn from City of Abbotsford, City of Abbotsford, Abbotsford News, Tourism Abbotsford, Abbotsford International Airshow.
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
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 Abbotsford 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
The Globe and Mail
2023 data partnership with Environics Analytics ranking 439 Canadian communities on ten livability categories.
Single edition · 2023
Only one published edition places Abbotsford in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
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 Abbotsford 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.
Single edition · 2018
Only one published edition places Abbotsford in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
City agriculture pages report that about 72 percent of Abbotsford's land sits in the Agricultural Land Reserve, which is why farm policy feels like core civic business.
Municipal farm stats highlight thousands of hectares in blueberry and raspberry production alongside major poultry numbers.
The Abbotsford International Airshow markets itself as Canada's National Airshow, with Snowbirds and CF-18 demonstration teams among the August draws.
Local paper branding shortens the city to Abby in Abby News, which is how residents already talk about the hometown desk.
The August aviation weekend with military and civilian demos, a huge static display, and a Fraser Valley food-truck field. For three days the city orients around the runway.
The named core district with its own parking and services identity on city pages. It is the walkable counterweight to farm roads and highway strips.
A working arterial that keeps showing up in enhancement and funding news. Getting across town still means knowing how Fraser Highway is behaving that week.
Berry fields, poultry barns, and fodder crops that define Abbotsford's map as much as any subdivision. Agriculture here is not a side attraction; it is most of the land base.
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