Squamish sits at City Score rank #55 with a standing of 57%, from 6 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 95 places versus 2022 (#150 → #55).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #296 of 327 at 55 Bq/m³ survey mean. Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
Against the national corpus, Squamish carries a City Score standing of 57% (rank #55 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 9 points above the British Columbia peer average across 58 ranked cities. Within British Columbia, Squamish ranks #5 of 58 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is population growth (standing 96%, rank #16 of 343, +3.6% annual growth). The weakest observed pillar is seismic hazard (standing 13%, rank #44 of 343). Crime severity uses the Statistics Canada police-service CSI mapped to Squamish, British Columbia, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, municipal (table 35100063), not a regional proxy.
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 139 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Squamish. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
