Photo: TravelingOtter from Houston, Texas, USA (CC BY-SA 2.0)Best places to live in the Northwest Territories
The Northwest Territories has 36,400 people in its places with a page, by Statistics Canada’s latest estimate. 63% of them live in Yellowknife, the biggest place. With no city of 250,000 or more, the Northwest Territories has no neighbourhood pages. Pages here include no First Nations reserve: none reaches 1,000 residents. 3 towns in the Northwest Territories have an overall grade; with fewer than five, the province has no ranking. The best-graded town in the Northwest Territories is Yellowknife, #1,243 of 2,556 across the country. Statistics Canada’s estimates put its population 11.3% above the 2021 count.
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Photos: Yellowknife, TravelingOtter from Houston, Texas, USA (CC BY-SA 2.0), 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).