Prince Edward Island
OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Charlottetown.
City Score #64 (2022) → #86 (2025)
Charlottetown sits at City Score rank #86 with a standing of 50%, 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 22 places versus 2022 (#64 → #86).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #115 of 172 (2025); residential mill rate rank #90 of 172 (10.60 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 Charlottetown.
Published residential mill-rate context for Charlottetown.
Waterfront park for pool days, Cultural Pavilion events, and Natal Day yoga. Islanders treat it as the capital’s big green room by the
Central square that hosts the Natal Day pancake breakfast with Mayor and Council. Small footprint, big civic habit.
City Hall council meetings are listed at 199 Queen Street.
Where Charlottetown sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Charlottetown’s summer identity peaks on Natal Day weekend, the civic birthday that fills Victoria Park, Confederation Landing, and Rochford Square with pancakes, pool parties, and outdoor music. Victoria Park carries the Cultural Pavilion and pool listings; Confederation Landing hosts the Downtown Farmers’ Market and evening concerts; Rochford Square is where Mayor and Council still flip Natal Day breakfast. Charlie Town, the city mascot, shows up at Founders’ Food Hall & Market when the birthday programming needs a friendly face. Sounds of the Waterfront keeps evenings booked along the same harbour edge.
Weekday city life sounds more like street notices. City Hall sits at 199 Queen Street. Kent Street and Grafton Street appear in temporary closures, Route 2 Winsloe in traffic alerts, and Malpeque Road in water-service work. T3 Transit is expanding north collector routes, which is how Islanders talk about getting across the capital without inventing a subway. Simmons Pool stays in the recreation file even when it closes early for a maintenance day, and sports-field closures still make the homepage when weather wins.
CBC Prince Edward Island covers the wider Island beat, including mayoral races that still start downtown. The capital’s hometown colour is parks and waterfront names you can walk between: Victoria Park for shade and swim, Confederation Landing for market mornings, Queen Street for City Hall, and Natal Day when August asks for a civic birthday. No OpenStats City Score placement sits in the datapack for Charlottetown yet, so the profile stays with the calendar and the streets Islanders already use.
Drawn from City of Charlottetown, City of Charlottetown Natal Day weekend, CBC Prince Edward Island.
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
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
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 Charlottetown 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 Charlottetown 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.
Natal Day is Charlottetown’s civic birthday weekend, with events spread across Victoria Park, Confederation Landing, and Rochford Square.
City Hall council meetings are listed at 199 Queen Street.
T3 Transit north collector routes are a live city expansion file for the capital’s north end.
Charlie Town is the municipal mascot used in Natal Day children’s programming.
Waterfront park for pool days, Cultural Pavilion events, and Natal Day yoga. Islanders treat it as the capital’s big green room by the harbour.
Downtown waterfront park for the farmers market and outdoor concerts. It is the easy meeting point when someone says meet on the waterfront.
Central square that hosts the Natal Day pancake breakfast with Mayor and Council. Small footprint, big civic habit.
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