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Inn on the Lake (48657269867)Fall River, #1 on this list · Photo: WabbitWanderer from London, Canada (CC BY-SA 2.0)
Halifax · 2026

Halifax’s neighbourhoods on 13 lists

Fall River is #1 on 5 lists. Counting top-three places, Fall River leads with 7. None of the leaders here is first across Canada. In all, 35 neighbourhoods in Halifax appear on 13 lists. The best overall grade in Halifax is Fall River’s B+.

Each list ranks the neighbourhoods in Halifax against one another; the letters compare every place with Canada’s towns. How grades work

Rankings

Every list for Halifax’s neighbourhoods

Grouped by what they measure, each with its three best neighbourhoods.

Lists for all of Canada

Overall, and by size

Best places to live
  1. Fall RiverB+
  2. Cole HarbourB
  3. TimberleaB
All 35 →

Subject by subject

Most affordable
  1. Hammonds PlainsB+
  2. Fall RiverB
  3. Upper TantallonB−
All 35 →Safest
  1. Fall RiverC+
  2. Cole HarbourC+
  3. TimberleaC+
All 35 →Healthiest
  1. North EndB+
  2. Manor ParkB+
  3. Windsor ParkB+
All 35 →Jobs & income
  1. Fall RiverA
  2. Portland EstatesA
  3. Cole HarbourA−
All 35 →Most walkable
  1. North EndA+
  2. Windsor ParkA+
  3. WestmountA+
All 35 →Lowest hazard risk
  1. Fall RiverB−
  2. Cole HarbourB−
  3. TimberleaB−
All 35 →Civic life
  1. Fall RiverB−
  2. Cole HarbourB−
  3. TimberleaB−
All 35 →

Described: figures, no letters

Highest incomes
  1. Hammonds Plains$134,900
  2. Fall River$134,600
  3. Upper Tantallon$129,300
All 35 →Most historic
  1. Harrietsfield16
  2. Eastern Passage9
  3. North End7
All 35 →Most bilingual
  1. North End16.8%
  2. Hammonds Plains16.5%
  3. Upper Tantallon16.2%
All 35 →Youngest
  1. North End33.3 years
  2. South End34.3 years
  3. Windsor Park35.4 years
All 35 →Oldest
  1. Sheet Harbour57.3 years
  2. Meaghers Grant54.4 years
  3. Portland Estates51.9 years
All 35 →
City by city

Neighbourhood rankings in other cities

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Photos: Fall River, WabbitWanderer from London, Canada (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Cole Harbour, Coastal Elite from Halifax, Canada (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Timberlea, Dennis G. Jarvis (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Hammonds Plains, Paulo O from Halifax, Canada (CC BY 2.0) · Upper Tantallon, misterjerk2 (CC BY-SA 3.0) · North End, Citobun (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Manor Park, Properpostman (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Windsor Park, Dennis G. Jarvis (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Portland Estates, Dennis G. Jarvis (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Westmount, Fralambert (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Harrietsfield, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson S… (Public domain) · Eastern Passage, ProjectHorizons (CC BY-SA 4.0) · South End, Thorfinn Stainforth (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Sheet Harbour, Dennis G. Jarvis (CC BY-SA 2.0) · Meaghers Grant, Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson S… (Public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

Sources: TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranking Canadian towns against each other only, run #73 of 10 November 2026. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).