Is your municipality the best place for youth to work?
Urban Work Index — Small & Medium Municipalities Edition
Helping small and medium municipalities become more attractive places for young people.
Create an award and information hub to help small and medium municipalities in Canada be more attractive to young workers. High quality, useful data will be used to build recommendations for small- and medium-sized municipalities to help retain and attract young people in effective ways.
Municipalities experiencing population decline and stagnant growth need to attract and keep people.
As large urban cities become unaffordable, smaller municipalities have the opportunity to attract young people, however:
The Index will measure your municipality’s attractiveness to young workers (18-29 yrs) across 5 topics: Education + Training, Employment, Entrepreneurship, Economy, and Affordability. It will allow municipalities to establish priorities for the future to attraction, retention and bounce back strategies for young people. The Index will become a launchpad for change and innovation for small municipalities (pop. 10,000 and 100,000). It includes:
Youthful Cities will award the top 10 best municipalities for young people to work in under 100,000 through a public release in September 2023.
Youthful Cities has been developing and releasing indexes since 2013 globally. We’ve launched two Canadian indexes ranking large cities as the best place for youth to work supported by RBC Financial Group. We’ve worked with economic development agencies to better position cities for attracting youth.
Your municipality buys into the index with the base package and has the option to upgrade for further scoring and analysis. The municipality will be responsible for providing the majority of data to Youthful Cities*.
*Data Collection Support can be customized to the needs of your municipality.
New Brunswick
New Brunswick
Prince Edward Island
Northwest Territories
Yukon
Alberta
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Ontario
Nova Scotia
Alberta
Ontario / Québec
Québec
Québec
Québec
British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan