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Bonnyville

Bonnyville drinking water hardness is 208 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

Civic arena · hometown HUD

Bonnyville

Town6,404 pop
57XP
#58

#58 of 343

57% City Score XP

RisingSurface
City Score XP

5/8 pillars on the board

57%#58

Decade trail

Bonnyville 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.

Bonnyville 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
208 mg/L
very hard
pH
7.1
Lead
0 μg/L

Full Bonnyville water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Devon · vs WetaskiwinHardness guide

Watershed to tap · system map

How Bonnyville's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Bonnyville 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 Bonnyville

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

How Bonnyville scores

Rising+148

Bonnyville sits at City Score rank #58 with a standing of 57%, 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 148 places versus 2022 (#206 → #58).

Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #141 of 327 at 105 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.

In the 2025 City Score edition, Bonnyville carries a City Score standing of 57% (rank #58 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 8 points above the Alberta peer average across 51 ranked cities. Within Alberta, Bonnyville ranks #6 of 51 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is seismic hazard (standing 94%, rank #323 of 343, raw score 0.016). The weakest observed pillar is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 21%, rank #273 of 343).

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 208 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Bonnyville. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#58
Arena rank (of 343)
57%
City Score
5
Pillars observed
Rising+148
vs 2022
#206 → #58

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #58 of 343

City Score

5/8 pillars · main XP bar

57%#58
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #98

58%
Building permits

No placement

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Internet

Rank #273

21%
Radon

Rank #141

43%
Hazards

Rank #323

94%
Property tax

No placement

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Bonnyville 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 +148Surface water supply

Hometown notes

City profile

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

Bonnyville in brief

Bonnyville lands on the Alberta map as a place people still call home.

Bonnyville grew the familiar Canadian way: schools, rinks, churches, and a main street that still anchors weekends. Festivals and street names carry pieces of that plotline into the present.

Bonnyville service economy ties to county seats, highway corridors, and regional employers that keep main street businesses busy through the year. On OpenStats City Score, Bonnyville ranks 60 of 343. Municipal recreation, parks, trails, and utility pages remain the best live guide to how Bonnyville 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 Bonnyville 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 Bonnyville. 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 Bonnyville.

Drawn from Municipality of Bonnyville, CBC Calgary / Edmonton.

City Score over time

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

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OpenStats City Score

Rankings for Bonnyville

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

Crime severity not placed

Statistics Canada does not publish a police-service Crime Severity Index that OpenStats can match to Bonnyville 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

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

#273
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 123.7

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

#58
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.572

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

#98
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 208

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

#141
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 104.8

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

#31
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.028770949720670392

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

#323
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.016

Worth knowing in Bonnyville

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

Places to see

Bonnyville downtown

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