CITY OF MOUNT PEARL DATA DRIVEN INSIGHTS
ABOUT THE WORLD COUNCIL ON CITY DATA www.dataforcities.org The World Council on City Data (WCCD) was founded in 2014 and exists to help communities of all sizes - in Canada and across the globe - to embrace standardized, independently verified, and globally comparable city data to become more sustainable, resilient, prosperous inclusive and smart. Since its founding, the WCCD has been working with 100 cities worldwide and has helped these cities to adopt ISO 37120, the first international standard for city data. The WCCD and ISO 37120 are a truly “Made in Canada” initiative – with their ultimate creation primarily spearheaded by Canadian urban thinkers and city leaders. The standard includes 104 indicators across 19 themes and standardizes a set of city services and quality of life. ISO 37120 provides cities with quantitative, globally comparable and independently verified local-level data enabling any city, of any size, to measure and compare its social, economic, and environmental progress internally year over year, and also in relation to other peer cities locally and globally. The WCCD is now also operationalizing two new standards: ISO 37122 Indicators for Smart Cities and ISO 37123 Indicators for Resilient Cities across its rapidly growing network. The WCCD has led the development of this “ISO 37120 Series” of three global standards to support cities in Canada and globally in building a global framework for city data that allows cities to drive measurable progress for sustainable, resilient and smart futures.
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achieved WCCD ISO 37120 Platinum Certification in 2019 – supported by the Government of Canada – having reported over 90 standardised city-level indicators, across nineteen themes.
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Fifteen new Canadian municipaliti of thirty WCCD-certified Canadian selected on the basis of various cr
NADIAN CITIES PROJECT – PARTICIPATING MUNICIPALITIES
ies participating in the Data for Canadian Cities Project join established WCCD member cities to create a cohort n cities. Graphs in this document showcase cities in this cohort as well as appropriate global peers. Peer cities are riteria, including for example population size, density, economic profile, demographic makeup and location.
MOUNT PEARL LIVING AND WORKING IN MOUNT PEARL
MOUNT PEARL: LIVING AND WORKING IN MOUNT PEARL
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A BUSINESSFRIENDLY CITY With 1,070 businesses in the City of Mount Pearl, the City is a Canadian and Global leader when normalized by population according to WCCD’s ISO 37120 Standard.
Number of Businesses per 100 000 Population ISO 37120 Indicator 5.5 Welland Brant County Richmond Hill Québec Markham Surrey St. John’s Edmonton Shawinigan Toronto Corner Brook Oakville Saskatoon
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MOUNT PEARL: LIVING AND WORKING IN MOUNT PEARL
AN AFFORDABLE PLACE TO LIVE This threshold figure measures the percentage of a city’s population that are living in housing that is affordable, defined according to what a given household spends on housing relative to household income. In Canada, housing is considered to be affordable when less than 30% of before-tax income is spent on housing.
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PLACES TO PLAY
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MOUNT PEARL TOWARDS A SMART AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
MOUNT PEARL: TOWARDS A SMART AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
PURSUING HEALTHY LIFESTYLES AND PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT
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MOUNT PEARL: TOWARDS A SMART AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
PURSUING HEALTHY LIFESTYLES AND PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT With 66 km of bike lanes in the City of Mount Pearl, the City is a Canadian and Global leader when normalized by population according to WCCD’s ISO 37120 Standard.
Kilometres of Bicycle Paths and Lanes per 100 000 Population ISO 37120 Indicator 19.4
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MOUNT PEARL: TOWARDS A SMART AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
BUILDING SMART URBAN INFRASTRUCTURE
Electricity Consumption of Public Street Lighting per kilometre of Lighted Street (kWh/km/year) ISO 37120 Indicator 7.6 (kWh/km/year)
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ENSURING AIR QUALITY IN SMALL CITIES (CITIES WITH A PO Nitrogen dioxide contributes to the formation of photochemical smog, and has significant impacts on human health and the environment.
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