St. John's sits at City Score rank #32 with a standing of 60%, 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. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #196 of 327 at 95 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.
In the 2025 City Score edition, St. John's carries a City Score standing of 60% (rank #32 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 7 points above the Newfoundland and Labrador peer average across 15 ranked cities. Within Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's ranks #3 of 15 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is drinking-water hardness (standing 97%, rank #333 of 343, raw score 25). The weakest observed pillar is police-reported crime severity (standing 45%, rank #46 of 102, 79.2 CSI). Crime severity uses the Statistics Canada police-service CSI mapped to St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador (table 35100026), not a regional proxy.
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 25 mg/L as CaCO₃ for St. John's. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
