Bramptonians can claim bragging rights over their Peel counterparts in Mississauga, after a MoneySense recent report ranked the city a full 11 spots higher on a recent list of the best places to live in Canada.

Using a number of metrics to derive a total score, MoneySense magazine ranked Brampton at 61 out of 415 towns and cities in Canada, Mississauga came in at 72. The report was released July 31.

“We rank how each city measures up in 10 categories: Wealth and economy, affordability, population growth, taxes, commute, crime, weather, access to health care, amenities and culture. We give each category a weight out of a total of 100 possible points, making categories we think are most important to average people worth the most points,” wrote MoneySense, describing its methodology.

Mississauga is ranked as Canada’s sixth most-populated city, Brampton comes in at No. 9.

While Peel’s two large centres were very close in terms of many metrics, there were a few noticeable differences in the report.

Both cities showed an unemployment rate of 5.7 per cent. Mississaugans had a higher average household income, at $107,385, compared with $101,848 in Brampton. Mississauga had a higher calculated property tax rate, at three per cent, translating to an average tax bill of $3,333. Based on MoneySense’s metrics, Brampton clocked in at two per cent, with an average annual bill of $3,197.

The average rent for a two-bedroom apartment in was also lower in Brampton at $1,285 per month compared to $1,333 in Mississauga.

On the mobility factors front, one per cent of residents walk to work in both cities, while 0.23 per cent of Bramptonians cycle to work compared with 0.28 per cent of Mississaugans. In Brampton, 6.9 per cent of residents take public transit to work, which is lower than transit commuters in Mississauga, at 8.92 per cent.

Surprisingly, MoneySense showed some fairly significant differences in weather patterns for the neighbouring cities. The list showed 146 millimetres of rain or snow per year in Brampton, compared with 126 millimetres annually in Mississauga.

Mississauga boasted 242 days above zero degrees Celsius and 103 days above 20 C. Brampton clocks an average of 229 days above 0 C and 122 days above 20 C.