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Vancouver City Intelligence

Vancouver is a Pacific-coast Canadian city with strong outdoor amenity, low-carbon hydroelectricity, and a fast-growing tech and creative economy. Vancouver is a north america city of about 2.6M metro in Canada. On the composite city-intelligence score, Vancouver sits comfortably above the indexed median (84/100).

Last updated
2026-05-07
Data year
2025
Population
2.6M metro

Overall score

Vancouver is most useful for users comparing outdoor amenity, clean-energy direction, and tech-sector growth against high housing pressure.

Overall84/100
Affordability56/100
Air quality86/100
Energy90/100

Overall city intelligence

Strong

84/100

Strong amenity and clean-energy profile balanced against high housing pressure.

Outdoor amenity

Very high

Coastal and mountain amenity supports a strong quality of daily life.

Energy mix

Low-carbon

Hydropower supports a favorable transition baseline.

Vancouver data table

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Vancouver city intelligence data table
MetricValueContext
Overall score84/100Composite score across major city intelligence modules.
Cost of Living56/100Vancouver is expensive on housing and central services, partially offset by outdoor amenity and service depth.
Air Quality86/100Vancouver has strong baseline air quality, helped by coastal context, with episodic wildfire smoke the main seasonal concern.
Energy90/100Vancouver operates with a low-carbon electricity baseline led by hydropower, with active building and transport electrification work.
Safety84/100Vancouver is among the safer large North American cities, with low violent-crime context and strong institutional response.
Internet Speed88/100Vancouver delivers fast fiber broadband and reliable mobile coverage, supporting a growing tech and creative economy.
Climate Risk76/100Vancouver faces moderate climate exposure from heat, atmospheric-river rainfall, and seasonal wildfire smoke, balanced by active adaptation.
Resilience80/100Climate adaptation and infrastructure continuity context.

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Cost of Living in Vancouver

Vancouver is expensive on housing and central services, partially offset by outdoor amenity and service depth.

Air Quality in Vancouver

Vancouver has strong baseline air quality, helped by coastal context, with episodic wildfire smoke the main seasonal concern.

Energy in Vancouver

Vancouver operates with a low-carbon electricity baseline led by hydropower, with active building and transport electrification work.

Safety in Vancouver

Vancouver is among the safer large North American cities, with low violent-crime context and strong institutional response.

Internet Speed in Vancouver

Vancouver delivers fast fiber broadband and reliable mobile coverage, supporting a growing tech and creative economy.

Climate Risk in Vancouver

Vancouver faces moderate climate exposure from heat, atmospheric-river rainfall, and seasonal wildfire smoke, balanced by active adaptation.

City rankings

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Interpretation

Vancouver is most useful for users comparing outdoor amenity, clean-energy direction, and tech-sector growth against high housing pressure. Its standout dimensions are energy (90/100) and internet speed (88/100). The area most worth watching is cost of living (56/100), where the model registers practical gaps. Data year 2025; last updated 2026-05-07. Drawn from 5 institutional references.

Country context is available on the Canada country page. Related rankings include Overall Intelligence, Quality of Life, Remote Work. See where Vancouver appears in global rankings or read the scoring methodology.

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Sources

5 institutional references inform this view, listed below with reliability notes. Mock values are typed and ready to be replaced by API-backed city datasets without changing route structure.