Newfoundland and Labrador
OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Corner Brook.
City Score #97 (2022) → #62 (2025)
Corner Brook sits at City Score rank #62 with a standing of 54%, 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 35 places versus 2022 (#97 → #62).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #130 of 172 (2025); residential mill rate rank #56 of 172 (12.31 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 Corner Brook.
Published residential mill-rate context for Corner Brook.
A Curling shoreline day park on the Bay of Islands with beach access, trails, and marina-adjacent sunsets.
Crow Hill lookout with Cook's chart copies and a Bay of Islands panorama. City webcams treat the monument as a standing civic view.
Margaret Bowater Park is the default host ground for Canada Day, Corner Brook Day, and the Corner Brook Winter Carnival.
Where Corner Brook sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Corner Brook sells itself as a garden city for a reason: the Bay of Islands sits at the door, and the municipal about page still ties the view to Captain James Cook's surveys. Captain James Cook National Historic Site on Crow Hill is the lookout locals name when guests want the chart story and the bay in one stop, and a city webcam literally points at Captain Cooks Monument. Downtown keeps a Main Street camera too, while Curling holds the shoreline habit at Bartlett's Point Park beside the marina. The west-coast framing is not brochure fluff here; it is how directions get given.
Day-to-day recreation clusters around Margaret Bowater Park, the gathering ground for Canada Day, Corner Brook Day, and winter carnival energy, complete with swimming area and splash pad. The Corner Brook Stream Trail threads the gorge and salmon ladder through town, and Three Bear Mountain adds the climb for city-and-bay views toward the Blomidon range. Marble Mountain Ski Resort is the short-drive winter reflex. Marina Redmond Centre covers indoor pool life, Corner Brook Transit is expanding hours, and 2026 civic chatter includes NL Summer Games volunteers plus the Jigs & Wheels Festival on the tourism board.
Pulp and paper history still shadows the railway story on city pages, but the present tense is trails, bay light, and west-coast outdoor logistics. Corner Brook does not carry an OpenStats City Score rank in the current datapack, so the hometown lead stays geographic: ocean on one side, stream trail in the middle, Marble minutes away. That is enough for a local to know which town you mean.
Drawn from City of Corner Brook, About Corner Brook, Parks and Playgrounds, Tourism, CBC Newfoundland and Labrador.
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
Composite · OpenStats
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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
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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
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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 Corner Brook in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Growth · OpenStats
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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.
3 editions · 2015–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
City about pages call Corner Brook a garden city at the mouth of the Bay of Islands and point to Captain James Cook's local surveying work.
Margaret Bowater Park is the default host ground for Canada Day, Corner Brook Day, and the Corner Brook Winter Carnival.
Marble Mountain Ski Resort sits about ten minutes from the city on municipal tourism listings.
The Corner Brook Stream corridor includes a gorge viewpoint and a salmon ladder that restored upstream passage for returning salmon.
The central park Corner Brook actually uses for civic parties. Swimming, playgrounds, splash pad, and a stage keep it busier than a postcard stop.
Crow Hill lookout with Cook's chart copies and a Bay of Islands panorama. City webcams treat the monument as a standing civic view.
A Curling shoreline day park on the Bay of Islands with beach access, trails, and marina-adjacent sunsets.
An in-town trail that hits the gorge and salmon ladder without requiring a highway day trip.
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