New Brunswick
OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Bathurst.
City Score #156 (2022) → #133 (2025)
Bathurst sits at City Score rank #133 with a standing of 44%, 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. Rising 23 places versus 2022 (#156 → #133).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #123 of 172 (2025); residential mill rate rank #33 of 172 (13.67 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 Bathurst.
Published residential mill-rate context for Bathurst.
City waterfront promenade for a short walk after downtown errands. It is the everyday bay edge rather than a day-trip destination.
Salt-marsh and forest reserve with several kilometres of trail inside city recreation pages. Hikers also treat it as the start of the
Youghall Beach Park is the named Chaleur Bay swim spot on the City recreation pages.
Where Bathurst sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Bathurst calls itself the Hub City for northeastern New Brunswick, and the water makes that feel literal. Youghall Beach Park sits on Chaleur Bay with a designated swim zone, so summer talk is less about a generic beach and more about whether you are heading to Youghall. Downtown, the Promenade Waterfront is the short waterfront walk after errands. Coronation Park is in the middle of a master-plan survey, which is how a hometown park file sounds when residents are asked what comes next.
Daly Point Nature Reserve stretches salt marsh, fields, and mixed forest across more than forty hectares, with winding trails that locals treat as the easy nature loop. It also marks the eastern trailhead of the Sentier Nepisiguit Mi'gmaq Trail, the long backcountry route Chaleur Tourism and the City both point to. Neighbourhood notices still name Parkwood and Sunset together when summer programs or water-main flushing hit those streets. Bridge / Miramichi Reconstruction stays on the homepage as a named construction file, the kind of civic project people navigate around rather than celebrate.
When New Brunswick Day arrives, programming often lands at the K.C. Irving Regional Centre, the arena and event hall that doubles as the city's big indoor stage. Chaleur Tourism wraps Bathurst into a wider bay region with Belle-Baie and rural districts, but the municipal voice stays Hub City first. Geosmin notices and water flushing remind residents that bay-town life still includes ordinary public-works seasons. Bathurst is Chaleur Bay swimming at Youghall, a promenade for an evening walk, and Daly Point when you want the marsh trail without leaving town.
Drawn from City of Bathurst, Youghall Beach Park, Daly Point Nature Reserve, Chaleur Tourism.
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
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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
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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
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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 Bathurst 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
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Municipal branding leads with Hub City for northeastern New Brunswick rather than a tourist slogan.
Youghall Beach Park is the named Chaleur Bay swim spot on the City recreation pages.
Daly Point is listed as the eastern trailhead of the Sentier Nepisiguit Mi'gmaq Trail.
Coronation Park has an active master-plan survey asking residents to shape the park's next chapter.
Municipal beach on Chaleur Bay with a designated swimming zone. It is the summer place-name Bathurst uses when the bay is warm enough.
Salt-marsh and forest reserve with several kilometres of trail inside city recreation pages. Hikers also treat it as the start of the longer Nepisiguit Mi'gmaq Trail.
City waterfront promenade for a short walk after downtown errands. It is the everyday bay edge rather than a day-trip destination.
Arena and civic venue that hosts New Brunswick Day programming and year-round events. When the Hub City needs an indoor stage, this is the building named first.
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