Ottawa Quality of Living

In a 2007 survey, MoneySense magazine ranked Ottawa-Gatineau first out of 122 communities in Canada as economically the best place to live. At the same time, Ottawa was ranked 18th in the world among cities with the best quality of life by a global survey published by Mercer Human Resource Consulting, placing it third in Canada, after Vancouver and Toronto.

City on the Grow

According to the 2006 Census, Ottawa is the fastest-growing G8 city with a population of 1,130,761 in the Ottawa-Gatineau area, putting us fourth behind Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver (with Calgary and Edmonton very close behind). In 2001, city officials predicted a growth rate of 11.5 percent, but by 2006, had seen only a five percent growth in that time.