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OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Campbell River.
City Score #108 (2022) → #154 (2025)
Campbell River sits at City Score rank #154 with a standing of 40%, 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 46 places versus 2022 (#108 → #154).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #62 of 172 (2025); residential mill rate rank #31 of 172 (13.77 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 Campbell River.
Published residential mill-rate context for Campbell River.
South-end recreation campus with the Sportsplex, splash park, skatepark, and fields. Festival and facility news often starts here.
The downtown waterfront pier and concession strip. Repair seasons come and go, but the pier remains the easy landmark for visitors and
The Campbell River Mirror still brands community life as What's up in The Riv?, which is the nickname residents already use.
Where Campbell River sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Campbell River still answers to The Riv in the Mirror's community pages, and River City when the street fest banners go up. The municipal About page puts Discovery Passage at the shoreline and mountains behind the skyline, which is how people here describe home without reaching for brochure language. It is the northern Vancouver Island hub: big enough for a Sportsplex and Tidemark Theatre, small enough that Lunch in the Square and Spirit Square programming still feel like the same downtown conversation.
Waterfront geography does the heavy lifting. Tyee Spit, also known as ʔuxstalis, sits at the river mouth with a municipal history page that treats reconciliation as part of the place story. Discovery Pier is the working promenade locals notice when repairs close it. Baikie Island Park and Centennial Park keep beach access and the outdoor pool in the everyday mix. South of the core, Willow Point Park carries the Sportsplex, skatepark, splash park, and fields, which is why Salmon Festival venue talk and gym-floor notices both point to the same address.
Arts and industry share the calendar. Campbell River Museum, Haig-Brown Heritage House, and Tidemark Theatre cover heritage and stage nights, while aquaculture shows up in the city's sector profile and in community barbecue headlines. CR Live Streets River City Street Fest and the Campbell River Salmon Festival keep summer civic. Campbellton remains a named neighbourhood with its own park, a reminder the city is more than the waterfront strip. The hometown tell is Discovery Passage light on the pier, The Riv in conversation, and whether the Sportsplex ice or gym is open this week.
Drawn from City of Campbell River, Campbell River Mirror, City of Campbell River.
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
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 Campbell River 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 Campbell River 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.
The Campbell River Mirror still brands community life as What's up in The Riv?, which is the nickname residents already use.
Municipal pages keep Tyee Spit's Liǧʷiłdax̌ʷ name, ʔuxstalis, beside the English label, treating the spit as more than a park sign.
Willow Point Park's splash park leans into marine heritage with salmon and whale play features, including a mega soaker shaped as a killer whale.
The city counts more than 1,500 hectares of parks and about 50 kilometres of trails, so outdoor space is a planning number, not a slogan.
The spit at the river mouth, also called ʔuxstalis, with a public history that locals treat as part of the shoreline. It is where Discovery Passage geography turns personal.
The downtown waterfront pier and concession strip. Repair seasons come and go, but the pier remains the easy landmark for visitors and residents alike.
South-end recreation campus with the Sportsplex, splash park, skatepark, and fields. Festival and facility news often starts here.
The municipal stage address for shows and community performance. It pairs with the museum and Haig-Brown Heritage House on the arts map.
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