Alberta · Civic arena
Blackfalds drinking water hardness is 147 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#20 of 343
62% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Blackfalds packs 5 of eight open-data pillars into its composite standing. Tap a rival below to see how the hometown stacks up head-to-head.
Rivalries on deck
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.
Full Blackfalds water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Beaumont · vs PonokaHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Blackfalds from municipal and provincial water records. Open the animated map for the full watershed-to-tap diagram — no nested topic navigation here.
Permits, tax, internet, radon, hazards, drinking water, and sports rankings where a CHL hometown applies.
Blackfalds sits at City Score rank #20 with a standing of 62%, from 5 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 19 places versus 2022 (#39 → #20).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #151 of 327 at 104 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.
Against the national corpus, Blackfalds carries a City Score standing of 62% (rank #20 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 12 points above the Alberta peer average across 51 ranked cities. Within Alberta, Blackfalds ranks #2 of 51 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 100%, rank #2 of 343, raw score 1000). The weakest observed pillar is indoor radon (standing 46%, rank #151 of 327).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 147 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Blackfalds. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #20 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #201
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Rank #2
Rank #151
Rank #227
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Blackfalds pillar standing
Eight equal-weight City Score pillars, 2025 panel year.
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
Published residential mill-rate context for Blackfalds.
Aquatic centres, arenas, and community halls listed on the municipal site anchor weekend life in Blackfalds.
Historic main street blocks, local shops, and civic buildings remain the walking-tour version of Blackfalds.
OpenStats tracks Blackfalds across water, radon, broadband, hazards, and City Score where data is available.
Where Blackfalds sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Blackfalds lands on the Alberta map as a place people still call home.
Decades of ordinary town-building followed: recreation centres, county fairs, and service jobs tied to the wider region. Walk the older blocks and you can still spot seams between eras.
Agriculture, forestry, tourism, and public-sector jobs still mix on the local tax roll the way many Alberta towns do. On OpenStats City Score, Blackfalds ranks 78 of 343. Municipal recreation, parks, trails, and utility pages remain the best live guide to how Blackfalds explains itself today.
Permits, mill rates, broadband, radon, hazards, and water quality may show measured values, regional estimates, or empty states until a verified source is linked. That is the same honest pattern OpenStats uses for smaller places already in the corpus, and it keeps Blackfalds comparable on the hometown board without inventing numbers. Seasonal recreation programming, winter maintenance, and summer festival calendars still fill the municipal news feed most years. Library branches, arena ice, and aquatics schedules are the practical anchors families check before planning a weekend in Blackfalds. Seasonal recreation programming, winter maintenance, and summer festival calendars still fill the municipal news feed most years. Library branches, arena ice, and aquatics schedules are the practical anchors families check before planning a weekend in Blackfalds.
Drawn from Municipality of Blackfalds, CBC Calgary / Edmonton.
City Score from 2016–2025 across eight open-data pillars. Individual study placements are listed in the panels below.
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.
Safety · OpenStats
Statistics Canada does not publish a police-service Crime Severity Index that OpenStats can match to Blackfalds without copying a province, CMA, or another city. The safety pillar scores at median standing (50%) on City Score, the same rule used for other missing pillars.
Connectivity · OpenStats
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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
Composite · OpenStats
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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
Water · OpenStats
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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
Water · OpenStats
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Communities ranked by reported lead (µg/L) on the OpenStats water atlas. Carried across panel years until annual municipal report panels are ingested.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Health · OpenStats
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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
Growth · OpenStats
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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
Hazards · OpenStats
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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
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
On OpenStats City Score, Blackfalds ranks 78 of 343.
Blackfalds recreation and parks programming is published on the municipal website for residents and visitors.
OpenStats tracks Blackfalds across water, radon, broadband, hazards, and City Score where data is available.
Aquatic centres, arenas, and community halls listed on the municipal site anchor weekend life in Blackfalds.
Historic main street blocks, local shops, and civic buildings remain the walking-tour version of Blackfalds.
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