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OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Sudbury.
City Score #103 (2022) → #124 (2025)
Sudbury sits at City Score rank #124 with a standing of 45%, from 8 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 21 places versus 2022 (#103 → #124).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #54 of 172 (2025); indoor radon rank #32 of 117 at 131 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #25 of 172 (14.57 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 Sudbury.
Published residential mill-rate context for Sudbury.
Municipal Play listing for the public market, where weekend errands feel more local than a big-box run.
A named municipal park under parks and playgrounds, close enough to Downtown Sudbury for a lunch break that is not a mall corridor.
Municipal pages pair Science North and Dynamic Earth as the cultural stops regional visitors plan around.
Where Sudbury sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
People say Greater Sudbury when they mean the whole amalgamated map, and the City's about page still leads with lakes: hundreds of them, with Lake Wanapitei as the one locals boast about for sheer size inside municipal limits. Beaches and Lakes is a Play category for a reason. Downtown Sudbury holds the errands and the arguments; The Market and Memorial Park keep a softer beat a short walk from the core. Bridge of Nations is the civic gesture you pass without needing a brochure. When visitors roll in from the northeast, Science North and Dynamic Earth are the pair the City itself names for cultural and educational trips.
Mining is not a museum label here. Greater Sudbury calls itself a mining centre with a mining supply and service sector that employs thousands beyond the pits, and that cluster still shapes who drives Falconbridge Road at shift change. GOVA is the transit name on city navigation; Sudbury Community Arena is where the big indoor nights land. Capreol shows up when Communities in Bloom judges roll through, a reminder that Greater Sudbury is a constellation of towns as much as a single downtown.
Press fronts bounce between housing construction talk, downtown safety files, and the usual Northeastern Ontario hub business. Laurentian keeps the education corridor in the picture. On the OpenStats City Score for 2026, Sudbury sits at rank 95 of 125. Rankings aside, the hometown read is a bilingual regional capital that measures itself in lakes, GOVA routes, and whether the mining supply shops are busy.
Drawn from City of Greater Sudbury, About Greater Sudbury, Sudbury Star, CBC Sudbury.
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
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
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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
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
Health · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by Health Canada survey mean indoor radon (Bq/m³). Rank 1 is the highest mean. Decade panel years without a new survey carry the CMA survey vintage forward; they are not annual retests.
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 Sudbury 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
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
City copy calls Greater Sudbury a city of lakes, with about 330 lakes and Lake Wanapitei named as the largest lake contained within a city.
Municipal pages pair Science North and Dynamic Earth as the cultural stops regional visitors plan around.
GOVA is the local transit brand on city home navigation for routes and schedules.
Falconbridge Road surfaces in Sudbury Star police coverage the way other cities name a commute corridor.
A Play-list landmark downtown that reads as Greater Sudbury's international welcome gesture. Locals treat it as orientation more than a ticketed attraction.
A named municipal park under parks and playgrounds, close enough to Downtown Sudbury for a lunch break that is not a mall corridor.
Municipal Play listing for the public market, where weekend errands feel more local than a big-box run.
One half of the City's own visitor pair with Dynamic Earth. It is the indoor answer when the lakes are windy and the mining talk needs a public face.
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