British Columbia
OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Fort St. John.
City Score #86 (2022) → #38 (2025)
Fort St. John sits at City Score rank #38 with a standing of 57%, 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 48 places versus 2022 (#86 → #38).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #89 of 172 (2025); residential mill rate rank #107 of 172 (9.79 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 Fort St. John.
Published residential mill-rate context for Fort St. John.
Central park for events and the seasonal farmers market, set beside the pool and Rotary Spray Park.
Downtown theatre and concert room on 100 Avenue for nights when the arena crowd is elsewhere.
Municipal visitor copy and the local news brand both lean on Energetic City as everyday shorthand.
Where Fort St. John sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Fort St. John still introduces itself as the energetic city. Energetic City is the local newsroom brand, FSJ is the shorthand in headlines, and visitor copy leans on the same word when it talks about tournaments, trail nights, and shift-town hospitality. On the Alaska Highway, people still navigate by miles: Dawson Creek is Mile 0, Fort St. John is Mile 47, and Charlie Lake sits near Mile 54. Highway 97 carries that North Peace traffic along the Peace River corridor.
Recreation is civic architecture here. The Pomeroy Sport Centre holds an Olympic-sized indoor speed skating oval, two NHL ice sheets, a walking track, and the year-round Visitor Centre. North Peace Arena hosts the Fort St. John Flyers and Huskies; North Peace Leisure Pool covers the swim crowd; Centennial Park and Kin Park handle markets, diamonds, and bike jumps. Downtown, the North Peace Cultural Centre keeps theatre and concerts on 100 Avenue, while the Fort St. John North Peace Museum and Pioneer Pathway Walking Tour hold the longer memory.
Municipal history pages place the story in the Peace Region after Alexander Mackenzie's 1793 canoe trip and a 1794 trading-post beginning, with Dane-zaa and Treaty 8 relationships named in visitor materials. Outside the pavement, Beatton Provincial Park ski trails and Peace River lookouts remind you why energy and outdoors share the same newsbeat. Toboggan Hill Park even gives the dog crowd a named hill off 93 Street. If someone says Mile 47, Pomeroy, and North Peace in one sentence, they are already oriented.
Drawn from City of Fort St. John, City of Fort St. John, Energetic City.
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 Fort St. John 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
The Globe and Mail
2023 data partnership with Environics Analytics ranking 439 Canadian communities on ten livability categories.
Single edition · 2023
Only one published edition places Fort St. John in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
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 Fort St. John 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.
Visitor materials place Fort St. John at Mile 47 of the Alaska Highway, with Charlie Lake near Mile 54 in local mile-marker talk.
Municipal visitor copy and the local news brand both lean on Energetic City as everyday shorthand.
Pomeroy Sport Centre houses an Olympic-sized indoor speed skating oval plus the city's Visitor Centre.
North Peace Arena is home ice for the Fort St. John Flyers and Fort St. John Huskies.
Multi-sport complex with the oval, NHL ice, walking track, and the desk where visitors still ask for Alaska Highway tips.
Downtown theatre and concert room on 100 Avenue for nights when the arena crowd is elsewhere.
Central park for events and the seasonal farmers market, set beside the pool and Rotary Spray Park.
Museum stop tied to the Pioneer Pathway Walking Tour for Peace Region settlement stories.
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