Our reputation precedes us, Vancouver: We are pretty great. Vancouver has ranked 16th on a new ranking of the world's most reputable cities.
The list is the Reputation Institute’s 2018 City RepTrak®, considered "the world’s largest annual survey of city reputation."
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What factors into this reputation ranking? Factors considered include safety for residents and visitors, progressive politics, well-developed political and legal institutions. The top three key attributes driving city reputation in 2018 are safety, beauty and leadership, which together comprise 32.7% of a city’s reputation.
The top-ranking Canadian city is Montreal, which lands in 10th place on this year's list. Toronto slightly out-scored Vancouver, coming in at 13th. The highest-ranked U.S. city is San Francisco, in 20th place, while the lowest-ranked city overall is Moscow.
While there has been some movement on the list this year from 2017's ranking--and a shift to prioritize safety over beauty--the cities that "successfully manage their reputations and improve their scores are gaining the most support across stakeholders," notes a media release. Basically what this boils down to is how desirable a city is for people considering visiting, re-locating, or investing.
The global survey uses data culled via over 12,000 individual ratings from G8 nations, ranking the 56 major cities based on levels of trust, esteem, admiration, and respect.
Here's the full list of 56 cities, ranked:
1 Tokyo
2 Sydney
3 Copenhagen
4 Vienna
5 Stockholm
6 Venice
7 Rome
8 Zurich
9 Munich
10 Montreal
11 Helsinki
12 Melbourne
13 Toronto
14 Milan
15 Barcelona
16 Vancouver
17 London
18 Dublin
19 Madrid
20 San Francisco
21 Edinburgh
22 Amsterdam
23 Frankfurt
24 New York
25 Prague
26 Paris
27 Singapore
28 Gold Coast
29 Seattle
30 Brussels
31 Berlin
32 Boston
33 Athens
34 Miami
35 Manchester
36 Orlando
37 Hong Kong
38 Los Angeles
39 Budapest
40 Washington, D.C.
41 Dubai
42 New Orleans
43 St. Petersburg
44 Seoul
45 Chicago
46 Atlanta
47 Las Vegas
48 Shanghai
49 Bangkok
50 Jerusalem
51 Rio De Janeiro
52 Istanbul
53 New Delhi
54 Mexico City
55 Cairo
56 Moscow
