Thompson is movin’ on up – the list of the nation’s top communities.
The northern Manitoba city climbed 45 spots, from 177th in 2015 to 132nd this year, in MoneySense magazine’s annual ranking of Canada’s best places to live.
The ranking compares the attributes of 219 large and medium-size communities across the country. Flin Flon, with a much smaller population than Thompson, was not among the communities judged.
Thompson was among the top 10 places in terms of affordable housing and also earned checkmarks in the categories of low unemployment, high incomes and low housing prices.
MoneySense pegged Thompson’s population at 14,201 and the annual growth rate at 0.71 per cent. Unemployment was calculated at 5.1 per cent. The median household income was $90,738.
The highest-ranked city of comparable size to Thompson was Bracebridge, Ontario, which ranked 18th overall in its first appearance in the rankings. That community has 16,593 residents.
