Money Sense has released its list of the Best Places to Live in Canada for 2014 and named Yellowknife 35th.
The top spot for best place to live in Canada went to St Albert, Alberta. Yellowknife did however rank 10 spots better than Whitehorse, Yukon, which has a lower average income but a higher household net worth and average house cost.
This is what Money Sense had to report on Yellowknife:
- POPULATIONÂ : 20,526
- POPULATION GROWTH 2008 TO 2013Â : 2.40%
- UNEMPLOYMENT RATE (%)Â : 6
- AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD INCOMEÂ : $138,277.58
- AVERAGE DISCRETIONARY INCOME: $70,680.66
- AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD NET WORTH: $330,992.00
- AVERAGE HOUSE PRICESÂ : $493,544.00
- AVERAGE YEARS TO BUY A HOMEÂ : 3.57
- PROPERTY TAX (%)Â : 2.43
- AVERAGE PROPERTY TAXÂ : $3,332.00
- PROPERTY TAX AS A OF AVERAGE HOUSEHOLD INCOMEÂ : 2.41%
- SALES TAXÂ : 5.00%
- INCOME TAX ($)Â : 8671
- NEW CARSÂ : 20.42%
- NEW LUXURY CARSÂ : 0.33%
- WALK TO WORK (%)Â : 22.74
- BIKE TO WORK (%)Â : 2.62
- TAKE PUBLIC TRANSIT TO WORK (%): 1.16
- TOTAL RAINFALL (mm)Â : 170.73
- DAYS PER YEAR WITH PRECIPITATIONÂ : 118.51
- DAYS PER YEAR WITH RAINÂ : 51.3
- DAYS ABOVE 0CÂ : 140.7
- DAYS ABOVE 20CÂ : 42.78
- DAYS BELOW MINUS 20CÂ : 105.18
- MEAN DAILY TEMP. : -4.28
- DAYS ABOVE 24CÂ : 0.32
- FIVE-YEAR CHANGE IN CRIME RATEÂ : 0.00%
- CRIME RATE PER 100,000Â : 37002.11
- CRIME SEVERITY INDEXÂ : 217.2
- VIOLENT CRIME SEVERITY INDEXÂ : 80
- NUMBER OF MEDICAL OFFICES PER ‘000Â : 0.44
- EMPLOYED IN HEALH CARE (%)Â : 4.04
- DOCTORS PER ‘000Â : 2.48
- EMPLOYED IN ARTS & REC (%)Â : 2.91
The source of this post and for more information on how they came to this conclusion can be found at http://www.moneysense.ca/canadas-best-places-to-live-2014-full-rankingÂ