Overall score
Use the Guelph profile to compare cost framing, transport access, and healthcare framing alongside Kitchener and other Ontario peers.
Overall71/100
Affordability67/100
Air quality75/100
Energy72/100
Canada / North America
Guelph City Intelligence
Guelph is a southwestern Ontario city west of Toronto with a university and agri-food research base and manufacturing employment, useful for cost framing and transport-access comparison within the commuter corridor. Guelph is a north america city of about ~170K metro in Canada. On the composite city-intelligence score, Guelph sits around the indexed median (71/100).
- Last updated
- 2026-05-16
- Data year
- 2025
- Population
- ~170K metro
Image credit: Image: Patty O'Hearn Kickham from Guelph, Ontario, Canada / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
Overall city intelligence
Good71/100
Composite directional score across affordability, air quality, clean energy, and resilience.
Data confidence
Directional
Directional indicators pending integration of verified city-level data.
Verified utility layers
See country hub
Emergency, healthcare, and transport verification status appears on the country hub.
Guelph data table
The table is part of the initial server-rendered HTML and mirrors the key city score cards.
| Metric | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Overall score | 71/100 | Composite score across major city intelligence modules. |
| Cost of Living | 67/100 | Guelph's cost-of-living profile is a directional indicator pending integration of verified city-level data; structured benchmark context applies. |
| Air Quality | 75/100 | Guelph's air-quality profile is a directional indicator framed against WHO and regional benchmarks; verified city-level measurements appear in the dedicated air-quality dataset section once integrated. |
| Energy | 72/100 | Guelph's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context. |
| Safety | 71/100 | Guelph's safety profile is a directional indicator; verified country-level emergency profiles attach via the country hub where available. |
| Internet Speed | 72/100 | Guelph's connectivity profile is a directional indicator combining national digital-readiness context with widely cited speed-test references. |
| Climate Risk | 71/100 | Guelph's climate-risk profile is a directional indicator combining regional hazard categories with national adaptation capacity. |
| Resilience | 71/100 | Climate adaptation and infrastructure continuity context. |
Emergency and public safety in Guelph
Local public safety guidance for Guelph, with the country-level emergency contacts that apply when calling for police, fire, or ambulance.
| Service | Number | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Universal emergency | 91124/7 | 911 reaches police, fire, and emergency medical dispatch in most regions of Canada. |
For the universal emergency contacts that apply in Guelph, including police, fire, and ambulance, see the Canada emergency profile.
Public safety sources
Each emergency contact above is attributed to an official emergency service or government publisher. Confirm current numbers directly with these sources.
- Government of Canada: Emergency services in Canada
Used as the primary attribution for Canada's 911 universal emergency number.
Last verified: 2026-05-16
Methodology and the wider source registry are documented on the scoring methodology and data sources pages.
Healthcare and hospitals in Guelph
Healthcare context for Guelph, with national-level information from Canada where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only and does not provide medical advice.
For the national healthcare and public-health context that applies in Guelph, see the Canada healthcare profile.
Official hospital registry
Canadian Institute for Health Information
National source of comparable Canadian health-system data and analysis recognised by federal and provincial governments.
Last verified: 2026-05-16
Healthcare sources
Each entry above is attributed to an official government, public health, or recognised health-system publisher. Confirm current information directly with these sources.
- Government of Canada: Health Canada
Used as the primary federal attribution for Canadian public-health context.
- Canadian Institute for Health Information: Canadian Institute for Health Information
Used as the primary reference for Canadian health-system statistics and hospital-system framing.
Last verified: 2026-05-16
Related sections: emergency and public safety, scoring methodology, and data sources.
Transport and mobility in Guelph
Local mobility context for Guelph, with national-level context from Canada where city-specific data is not yet verified. This is informational only.
For national transport authorities and operators that apply in Guelph, see the Canada transport profile.
Transport sources
Each entry above is attributed to an official transport authority, national operator, airport publisher, or government source. Confirm current information directly with these publishers.
- Government of Canada: Transport Canada
Used as the primary federal attribution for Canadian national transport context.
- VIA Rail Canada: VIA Rail Canada
Used as the primary attribution for Canadian national rail operator information.
Last verified: 2026-05-16
Related sections: emergency and public safety, healthcare and hospitals, cities directory, countries directory, scoring methodology, data sources.
Air quality dataset
Source-attributed air-quality dataset for Guelph. Verified measurements are surfaced when published from accepted official datasets; transparent fallback is shown otherwise.
Air quality dataset for Guelph
Verified data unavailableLast updated 2026-05-16 / data year 2025
Verified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location
Source-attributed values for Guelph will appear here after the platform integrates verified measurements from accepted official publishers. Until then, structured air-quality module context remains available on the dedicated module page.
| Metric | Value | Data year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Air quality | Verified air-quality measurements are not yet published for this location. | ||
Data provenance
Source attributionGlobal City Intelligence — air-quality dataset
Verified data unavailable- Publisher
- Global City Intelligence
- Last verified
- 2026-05-16
The air-quality dataset begins empty by design. Verified city-level measurements appear here only after they are sourced from accepted publishers (WHO, EEA, US EPA, OpenAQ, OECD, or official national/city environmental agencies).
Methodology and context
Numeric measurements appear in this section only after they are sourced from accepted official publishers. The dataset is independently validated at build time; malformed records cannot ship to production.
- Scoring methodology — how indicators across the platform are constructed.
- Data sources registry — the official sources cited by verified datasets.
- Open the Guelph air-quality module
- Browse the clean-air city collection
Explore Guelph modules
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Cost of Living in Guelph
Guelph's cost-of-living profile is a directional indicator pending integration of verified city-level data; structured benchmark context applies.
Air Quality in Guelph
Guelph's air-quality profile is a directional indicator framed against WHO and regional benchmarks; verified city-level measurements appear in the dedicated air-quality dataset section once integrated.
Energy in Guelph
Guelph's energy-readiness profile is a directional indicator that combines national policy framing with city-level adaptation context.
Safety in Guelph
Guelph's safety profile is a directional indicator; verified country-level emergency profiles attach via the country hub where available.
Internet Speed in Guelph
Guelph's connectivity profile is a directional indicator combining national digital-readiness context with widely cited speed-test references.
Climate Risk in Guelph
Guelph's climate-risk profile is a directional indicator combining regional hazard categories with national adaptation capacity.
City rankings
Compare this city against other indexed cities in crawlable ranking tables.
Cost of living in Guelph
Cost of living estimates for Guelph — monthly budgets, rent, food, and transport in the local currency, plus an affordability score for comparison. Planning estimates derived from country baselines, not live prices.
Visual guide to Guelph
Source-attributed visual context for Guelph using verified Wikimedia imagery from the existing media catalog, alongside structured city intelligence and planning links. Not a tourism guide or attractions ranking.
Weekend trip planning guide for Guelph
Weekend trip planning checklist for Guelph — links into arrival planning, Summer 2026 travel context, visual orientation, budget tools, transport, public safety, and healthcare context. Not an itinerary, events calendar, hotel-price guide, restaurant guide, or tourism ranking.
Nearby weekend places from Guelph
Source-backed nearby place records for local-first weekend planning, with verification status, official source links, Wikidata identity, and visual context.
Estimate a monthly budget for Guelph
Estimate a monthly budget for Guelph using your own housing, food, transport, healthcare, and lifestyle inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official cost-of-living measurement.
Plan a trip budget for Guelph
Plan a trip budget for Guelph using your own accommodation, food, local transport, activities, travel, healthcare buffer, and emergency buffer inputs. Planning estimator only — not an official travel cost estimate.
Nearby cities from Guelph
Where else nearby you could spend a day or a weekend from Guelph. Links are derived from geographic proximity, shared region, shared natural-recreation areas, transport corridors, and country borders — not popularity or tourism rankings.
Kitchener, Canada
Nearby city · about 22 km from Guelph. Explore Kitchener's city intelligence profile.
Waterloo, Canada
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Brampton, Canada
Same region · about 42 km from Guelph. Explore Brampton's city intelligence profile.
Hamilton, Canada
Nearby city · about 45 km from Guelph. Explore Hamilton's city intelligence profile.
Brantford, Canada
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Mississauga, Canada
Same region · about 49 km from Guelph. Explore Mississauga's city intelligence profile.
Vaughan, Canada
Same region · about 68 km from Guelph. Explore Vaughan's city intelligence profile.
Toronto, Canada
Same region · about 70 km from Guelph. Explore Toronto's city intelligence profile.
Markham, Canada
Same region · about 89 km from Guelph. Explore Markham's city intelligence profile.
St. Catharines, Canada
Same region · about 92 km from Guelph. Explore St. Catharines's city intelligence profile.
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Interpretation
Use the Guelph profile to compare cost framing, transport access, and healthcare framing alongside Kitchener and other Ontario peers. Its standout dimensions are air quality (75/100) and energy (72/100). The area most worth watching is cost of living (67/100), where the model registers practical gaps. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-16. Drawn from 4 institutional references.
Country context is available on the Canada country page. Related rankings include Overall Intelligence, Quality of Life, Remote Work. See where Guelph appears in global rankings or read the scoring methodology.
Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation. Verified datasets are being integrated; official sources should be used for critical decisions.
Sources
4 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Structured indicators on this page are directional and intended for orientation; verified datasets are being integrated and official sources should be used for critical decisions.
- UN-Habitat: World Cities Report 2024
Used as a policy and methodology reference for urban exposure and resilience signals.
- US Environmental Protection Agency: National Ambient Air Quality Standards
Used where United States city comparisons need air-quality benchmark context.
- NASA: NASA POWER
Used as an energy-resource and weather-normalization reference.
- IPCC: AR6 WGII Chapter 6: Cities, settlements and key infrastructure
Used to explain urban climate vulnerability and adaptation scoring logic.