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OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Sault Ste. Marie.
City Score #90 (2022) → #123 (2025)
Sault Ste. Marie sits at City Score rank #123 with a standing of 45%, 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 33 places versus 2022 (#90 → #123).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #63 of 172 (2025); residential mill rate rank #17 of 172 (15.42 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 Sault Ste. Marie.
Published residential mill-rate context for Sault Ste. Marie.
Historic hangar attraction focused on bushplanes and forest-fire aviation. It pairs with the outdoor calendar that sells the Soo as a trail
Full-day scenic rail trip leaving from Huron Street into Northern Ontario forests and canyon stops. Tourism pages treat it as the classic
Sault Downtown Plaza at 526 Bay Street sits beside Soo MRKT and runs seasonal outdoor skating.
Where Sault Ste. Marie sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Sault Ste. Marie is the Soo: a Northern Ontario border city where Lake Superior and Lake Huron geography meet the International Bridge to Michigan. The city homepage greets people with Welcome, Biindigen, and Bienvenue, and tourism pages sell an adventure-town calendar of trails, snow, and Great Lakes water. Downtown, the Sault Downtown Plaza on Bay Street hosts concerts, markets beside Soo MRKT, seasonal ice, and the Rotary Interactive Fountain. Roberta Bondar Park puts a tent pavilion right on the St. Marys River for bigger outdoor nights. Hot August Nights and Margaritaville bookings keep the plaza lit after supper.
Bellevue Park is the main passive park, with splash pad, greenhouse, sensory playground, and links into the John Rowswell Hub Trail. Visitors still book the Agawa Canyon Tour Train for a full-day run into the bush, and the Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre keeps the Ontario Provincial Air Service hangar story in town. The Sault Star sports desk talks Soo Greyhounds the way other cities talk their junior clubs, and wildfire season often leads the regional news stack. Sault Area Hospital and player billet searches share the same local-desk mix of hard news and community asks.
Municipal life stays practical. East Street reconstruction updates sit on the homepage beside Summer Concert Series promos and election worker calls. Housing CIP notices and downtown development committee dates keep planning talk close to Bay Street. On OpenStats City Score for 2026, Sault Ste. Marie sits at rank 114 of 125. Locals still start the introduction with the Soo, the riverfront, and the bridge before they mention the train or the bushplanes.
Drawn from City of Sault Ste. Marie, Sault Downtown Plaza, Bellevue Park, Roberta Bondar Park, Tourism Sault Ste. Marie, Sault Star.
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 Sault Ste. Marie 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
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 city homepage opens with Welcome! Biindigen! Bienvenue!
Sault Downtown Plaza at 526 Bay Street sits beside Soo MRKT and runs seasonal outdoor skating.
Bellevue Park spans about 17 hectares with a splash pad, greenhouse, and 2.4 kilometres of walkway.
Roberta Bondar Park's Tent Pavilion sits on the St. Marys River and can seat large outdoor events under cover.
Bay Street gathering place with Village Media Stage, Rotary Interactive Fountain, and winter ice. Soo MRKT sets up beside it on market days.
Full-day scenic rail trip leaving from Huron Street into Northern Ontario forests and canyon stops. Tourism pages treat it as the classic first-visit outing.
Historic hangar attraction focused on bushplanes and forest-fire aviation. It pairs with the outdoor calendar that sells the Soo as a trail and snow town.
Main passive park with playgrounds, greenhouse, and Hub Trail connections. Summer survey work shows how closely residents watch its upkeep.
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