Abbotsford, British Columbia
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Abbotsford

Abbotsford drinking water hardness is 138 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Abbotsford

Census_metropolitan_area196k pop
54XP
#98

#98 of 343

54% City Score XP

Rising
City Score XP

6/8 pillars on the board

54%#98

Decade trail

Abbotsford packs 6 of eight open-data pillars into its composite standing. Tap a rival below to see how the hometown stacks up head-to-head.

Abbotsford drinking water

Regional estimate from nearest municipal sample

Hardness, pH, and lead from municipal reports on the OpenStats water atlas. This page uses a regional estimate — open the water atlas for method notes.

Hardness
138 mg/L
hard
pH
7.6
Lead
0.2 μg/L

Full Abbotsford water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Parksville · vs CoquitlamHardness guide

Watershed to tap · system map

How Abbotsford's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Abbotsford from municipal and provincial water records. Open the animated map for the full watershed-to-tap diagram — no nested topic navigation here.

Local numbers for Abbotsford

Permits, tax, internet, radon, hazards, drinking water, and sports rankings where a CHL hometown applies.

Sports

Junior hockey in Abbotsford

Full sports page →
Team
Abbotsford Canucks
League
WHL
Points %
75.8%

64 GP · 97 pts · Compare CHL cities

How Abbotsford scores

Rising+29

Abbotsford sits at City Score rank #98 with a standing of 54%, from 6 of 8 open-data pillars (tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, growth, safety). Missing pillars score at median standing so thin coverage cannot inflate the rank. Rising 29 places versus 2022 (#127 → #98).

Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #257 of 327 at 61 Bq/m³ survey mean. Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

Among Canadian cities on the hub, Abbotsford carries a City Score standing of 54% (rank #98 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 6 points above the British Columbia peer average across 58 ranked cities. Within British Columbia, Abbotsford ranks #13 of 58 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is indoor radon (standing 79%, rank #257 of 327, raw score 61.4). The weakest observed pillar is seismic hazard (standing 8%, rank #29 of 343). Crime severity uses the Statistics Canada police-service CSI mapped to Abbotsford, British Columbia, municipal (table 35100063), not a regional proxy.

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 138 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Abbotsford. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#98
Arena rank (of 343)
54%
City Score
6
Pillars observed
Rising+29
vs 2022
#127 → #98

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #98 of 343

City Score

6/8 pillars · main XP bar

54%#98
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #216

64%
Building permits

No placement

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Internet

Rank #90

74%
Radon

Rank #257

79%
Hazards

Rank #29

8%
Property tax

No placement

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Abbotsford pillar standing

Eight equal-weight City Score pillars, 2025 panel year.

TaxPermitsNetRadonWaterHazardsGrowthCrime

Source: OpenStats composite / study editions

City Score standing trend

Standing percentage by panel year (higher is better).

Years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

Source: OpenStats composite timeseries

Achievements

Rising +29

Hometown notes

City profile

Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.

Abbotsford in brief

Abbotsford, or Abby if you read the local masthead, introduces itself as farm country first. City agriculture pages call it one of the most intensively and diversely farmed areas in Canada, with about 72 percent of the municipal land base inside the Agricultural Land Reserve. Blueberries and raspberries take serious acreage, poultry barns are part of the economic count, and AgRefresh keeps ALR zoning and compliance on the planning desk. Tourism Abbotsford brands the same story as Handmade & Homegrown and Heart of the Fraser Valley, with an acknowledgement of Semá:th and Máthxwi territories under that hospitality pitch.

August still rearranges the calendar. The Abbotsford International Airshow fills the sky with Snowbirds, CF-18 demos, and a food-truck field big enough to feel like its own festival, while Agrifair keeps the agricultural fair tradition on the Abbotsford News photo desk. Between those weekends, Go! Abbotsford is the civic events brand for everything from culture programming to farm experiences. Historic Downtown has its own parking and services identity, and Fraser Highway shows up in infrastructure funding notices as the corridor that needs constant work.

Summer civic life also sounds like water and smoke talk. Stage 2 outdoor water restrictions travel as Abbotsford and Mission messaging under Our Water Matters, and High fire-danger ratings sit on the city homepage when the hills dry out. The OpenStats City Score ranks Abbotsford 215 of 343 in 2026, with a strong building-permit placement in the same datapack. The hometown tell is simpler: berry trucks on ALR roads, Airshow weekend traffic, and an Abby News habit of treating farm and flight as the same community beat.

Drawn from City of Abbotsford, City of Abbotsford, Abbotsford News, Tourism Abbotsford, Abbotsford International Airshow.

City Score over time

City Score from 2016–2025 across eight open-data pillars. Individual study placements are listed in the panels below.

0%25%50%75%100%2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
OpenStats City Score

Rankings for Abbotsford

Each study below is its own ranking. Where a study has more than one edition for this city, the chart shows standing across those years only.

Connectivity · OpenStats

OpenStats Broadband Download Speeds

OpenStats

Cities ranked by household-weighted maximum advertised download (Mbps) from ISED National Broadband Data hex ISP rows, with hex-to-city assignment by population-weighted gravity. The headline 2025 score is the dwelling-weighted mean of per-hex technology ceilings (fibre and cable at 1 Gbps, DSL lower). Household-weighted 50/10 availability (%) is stored on atlas rows as avail_5010_pct. Earlier panel years backcast along a national speed curve with city-specific fiber and availability paths.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#90
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 868.5

Sports · OpenStats

OpenStats CHL Points Percentage

OpenStats

Canadian Hockey League (OHL, WHL, QMJHL) member cities ranked by regular-season points percentage. One CHL team maps to each OpenStats hometown slug; standings snapshot is curated from public league tables.

Single edition · 2025

#8
Published · 2025 · of 45
Score 0.758

Only one published edition places Abbotsford in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Composite · OpenStats

OpenStats City Score

OpenStats

Dimensional average of OpenStats open-data pillars for each panel year 2016-2025: tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, population growth, and crime severity. Each series is scored 0-1 within its edition; series in the same pillar are averaged, then all eight pillars are averaged with equal weight. Missing pillars score at median standing (0.5). Crime severity uses StatCan police-service CSI only (Tables 35-10-0026-01 and 35-10-0063-01); cities without a police-service match take median standing on the safety pillar. Growth uses StatCan CSD estimates; construction uses verified municipal building-permit value per resident (population field on each city record, 2021 Census vintage); mill rates and broadband use live rows plus documented year-varying estimates where needed. Radon, water, and PGA may be survey/model vintages carried forward and are flagged when static for more than two years. External commercial livability lists are never inputs.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#98
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.543

Safety · OpenStats

OpenStats Crime Severity Index

OpenStats

Communities ranked by Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index at police-service grain (Tables 35-10-0026-01 and 35-10-0063-01 for British Columbia). Rank 1 is highest CSI (worse). Cities without a police-service match are not listed; the safety pillar scores at median standing on City Score. Hometown pages name the police service and reference year.

CSI from Abbotsford, British Columbia, municipal (2025, Table 35-10-0063-01).

10 editions · 2016–2025

#35
Latest · 2025 · of 102
Score 94.61

Water · OpenStats

OpenStats Drinking Water Hardness

OpenStats

Communities ranked by municipal drinking-water hardness (mg/L as CaCO₃). Hardness changes slowly; the atlas vintage is carried across panel years and flagged when static for more than two years.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#216
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 138

Health · OpenStats

OpenStats Highest Indoor Radon

OpenStats

Communities ranked by Health Canada survey mean indoor radon (Bq/m³). Rank 1 is the highest mean. Decade panel years without a new survey carry the CMA survey vintage forward; they are not annual retests.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#257
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 61.4

Sports · OpenStats

OpenStats Local Sports Depth

OpenStats

Hometowns with a mapped junior hockey franchise ranked by local sports depth: league tier (CHL member leagues = 1.0, MHL = 0.65) multiplied by regular-season points percentage. Surfaces cities with both a franchise and a strong standings year; not a City Score pillar input.

Single edition · 2025

#8
Published · 2025 · of 49
Score 0.758

Only one published edition places Abbotsford in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Growth · OpenStats

OpenStats Population Growth

OpenStats

Cities ranked by year-over-year population growth from Statistics Canada annual CSD estimates (Table 17-10-0155-01). Rank 1 is fastest growth. A few places without a clean CSD match use a provincial-path estimate anchored to seed population.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#87
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.01982564597642324

Hazards · OpenStats

OpenStats Seismic Hazard (PGA)

OpenStats

Communities ranked by NRCan peak ground acceleration (higher = stronger shaking hazard). Rank 1 is highest PGA. The seismic model is multi-year; values are carried across the City Score panel and flagged as static until NRCan publishes a new generation.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#29
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.216

Livability

Globe and Mail Most Livable Cities

The Globe and Mail

2023 data partnership with Environics Analytics ranking 439 Canadian communities on ten livability categories.

Single edition · 2023

#37
Published · 2023 · of 439

Only one published edition places Abbotsford in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Livability

Maclean's Best Communities

Maclean's

Successor-style municipal livability ranking published by Maclean's for 2019 and 2021 (no 2020 edition).

Single edition · 2021

#91
Published · 2021 · of 415

Only one published edition places Abbotsford in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Livability

MoneySense Best Places to Live

MoneySense

Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.

Single edition · 2018

#161
Published · 2018 · of 415

Only one published edition places Abbotsford in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Worth knowing in Abbotsford

Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.

  • City agriculture pages report that about 72 percent of Abbotsford's land sits in the Agricultural Land Reserve, which is why farm policy feels like core civic business.

    City of Abbotsford

  • Municipal farm stats highlight thousands of hectares in blueberry and raspberry production alongside major poultry numbers.

    City of Abbotsford

  • The Abbotsford International Airshow markets itself as Canada's National Airshow, with Snowbirds and CF-18 demonstration teams among the August draws.

    Abbotsford International Airshow

  • Local paper branding shortens the city to Abby in Abby News, which is how residents already talk about the hometown desk.

    Abbotsford News

Places to see

Abbotsford International Airshow

The August aviation weekend with military and civilian demos, a huge static display, and a Fraser Valley food-truck field. For three days the city orients around the runway.

Historic Downtown

The named core district with its own parking and services identity on city pages. It is the walkable counterweight to farm roads and highway strips.

Fraser Highway corridor

A working arterial that keeps showing up in enhancement and funding news. Getting across town still means knowing how Fraser Highway is behaving that week.

ALR farm landscape

Berry fields, poultry barns, and fodder crops that define Abbotsford's map as much as any subdivision. Agriculture here is not a side attraction; it is most of the land base.

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