Three Canadian locations are in the global top ten of TheEIU’s liveability index this year. Cities in the United States have never made the cut
, which helps employers to calculate such allowances. In such an attractive region, the tool serves another handy purpose: teasing out what separates the best from the merely good.’s global index judges 173 cities across five categories: stability, health care, culture and environment, education, and infrastructure. In North America , all 26 cities have a liveability score of at least 80 out of 100. The exception, Saipan, is in the North Mariana Islands, a US commonwealth in the western Pacific.
Size, in this case, matters. Canadian cities benefit from small populations: the biggest is Toronto, with little over 2.8m people; Vancouver has roughly 700,000. Similarly, none of America’s top-scoring cities—Honolulu, Atlanta , Pittsburgh , Seattle , Washington, DC and Miami —are among the country’s ten biggest by population. Honolulu and Pittsburgh each have just about 300,000 people. New York, America’s biggest city with 8.
The stability category considers crime rates and threats of terrorism, civil unrest and military conflict. Across America crime spiked during the pandemic. In New York, shootings have since fallen significantly but felonies such as assault and auto theft remain stubbornly high. Canada’s stability score wobbled in 2022 as disruptive anti-vaccine protests swept through the country, occupying cities and blockading major streets.
Finally, Canadian cities excel at delivering high-quality public health care. Their southern neighbours did see an improvement in that category, big enough to push up the region’s overall index score compared with a year earlier. EIU attributes this to the decline in covid-19 cases and the alleviation of pandemic-related stresses on health-care systems. Still, critical health indicators in America—such as life expectancy and maternal mortality—are far worse than Canada’s.
Liveability, of course, means something different to each city-dweller. New York’s frenetic bustle, Honolulu’s crescent beach, Montreal’s cobblestoned—do these map neatly onto an index? Perhaps not. But as for a city’s measurable qualities, it is useful to see where America can catch up.
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