#1Roseland
Ontario · 20,587 peopleOverall B·#904 of 2,556
Strongest: schools A, jobs & income B+·lowest: walkability C
Each edition grades its towns against each other only.
Roseland, #1 on this list · Photo: Chris Woodrich (CC BY-SA 4.0)Last comes City Centre, at C−. Schools is graded within Ontario alone: there is no Canada-wide order. Leading Windsor on this list is Roseland, at A. The places after the leader belong to East Riverside (A−) and Forest Glade (A−). 3 of the 15 on this list grade in the A range.
Schools grade: provincial test results of the schools in the place or within 3 km, scored within Ontario, British Columbia or Alberta How grades work
#1Overall B·#904 of 2,556
Strongest: schools A, jobs & income B+·lowest: walkability C
#2Overall B−·#1,452 of 2,556
Strongest: schools A−, jobs & income B·lowest: cost of living C
#3Overall C·#1,890 of 2,556
Strongest: schools A−, health B·lowest: cost of living D
Schools is graded against places in Ontario alone, so it has no national order; beside each place sit its overall grade and national rank.
15 neighbourhoods
Photos: Roseland, Chris Woodrich (CC BY-SA 4.0) · East Riverside, JFVoll (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Forest Glade, 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).