Burnaby sits at City Score rank #6 with a standing of 67%, 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. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #1 of 25 (2025); indoor radon rank #314 of 327 at 35 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.
Against the national corpus, Burnaby carries a City Score standing of 67% (rank #6 of 343) with 7 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 19 points above the British Columbia peer average across 58 ranked cities. Within British Columbia, Burnaby ranks #1 of 58 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is building permit value (standing 100%, rank #1 of 25, raw score 12400). The weakest observed pillar is seismic hazard (standing 6%, rank #20 of 343). Crime severity uses the Statistics Canada police-service CSI mapped to Burnaby, British Columbia, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, municipal (table 35100063), not a regional proxy.
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 22 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Burnaby. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
