BestCityToLive Research · 2026 Q4 · Model v1.0.0
How well does a city turn its resources into a good everyday life?
A high salary means less when housing consumes it. A short journey matters more when it reliably connects you to work, care and friends. The Civometra Index measures the conditions that make a place work for the people living there, across five distinct pillars.
Civometra (siv-oh-MET-ruh) is our coined name combining civic life with measurement: a measure of how well cities support everyday living.
The model is published; official quarterly results are not yet released. The inherited dataset has 31 metric definitions but no row-level source links. Those legacy scores remain available as a dated baseline, separately from the new index. We are collecting comparable observations before assigning Civometra scores.
188 sourced contextual observations currently available. Automated feeds checked 2026-10-12. National and Canadian regional context is excluded from global scoring.
Inspect the evidence →What remains after housing and essentials, and how accessible a home is.
Time, mobility, connectivity and reliable daily services.
Personal safety and access to healthcare, education and support.
Clean air, accessible nature and exposure to climate hazards.
Jobs, skills, enterprise, culture and a growing supply of homes.
The published index uses the fixed weights above. Explore a personal allocation here: increase a priority to see how your weighting differs. This changes the preference mix, not the official methodology or any city’s published position.
Fixed weights, explicit anchors and a reproducible scoring engine. Method changes receive a new version.
Urban-area observations must use compatible boundaries. National averages never stand in for a city.
Each official release will freeze its data cutoff, cohort, version, source file and correction history.
