Manitoba · Civic arena
Brandon drinking water hardness is 116 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#270 of 343
42% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
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Brandon packs 7 of eight open-data pillars into its composite standing. Tap a rival below to see how the hometown stacks up head-to-head.
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Hardness, pH, and lead from municipal reports on the OpenStats water atlas.
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Source, treatment, and distribution for Brandon from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Brandon.
Brandon sits at City Score rank #270 with a standing of 42%, from 7 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 10 places versus 2022 (#280 → #270).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #280 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #229 of 343 at 116 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #16 of 343 (13.56 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
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Published residential mill-rate context for Brandon.
Trail and nature hub listed among the city's Assiniboine corridor regional assets, a practical starting point for riverbank walks.
Recreation and events campus that hosts Manitoba Ag Days and the big indoor crowds Brandon cannot fit elsewhere.
Wheat City is not just nostalgia; the municipal golf course still carries the name in city recreation planning.
Where Brandon sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Brandon sits on the Assiniboine River and still answers to Wheat City when locals talk about home. City Plan language calls it the urban centre of Westman, the southwestern Manitoba region that looks here for hospital care, college classes, and weekend events. The Assiniboine River corridor is the outdoor spine: protected parks and trails where people fish, walk, and gather, with Brandon Riverbank Inc. and Bee City Brandon helping keep the banks useful and green. Flood recovery notices are part of the municipal calendar after high water, so river talk here is practical, not postcard.
Recreation clusters around a few named places. The Keystone Centre hosts big shows and Manitoba Ag Days. Brandon Community Sportsplex covers ice, pool, and track bookings. Riverbank Discovery Centre anchors trail days along the corridor, and Wheat City Golf Course carries the nickname onto fairways. Assiniboine Community College spreads across Victoria Avenue East and North Hill campuses, while BU shorthand turns up whenever campus news hits the Brandon Sun. Brandon Regional Health Centre remains the Westman medical address people mean when they say they are driving into town for appointments.
Summer softens the industrial edges: Music in the Park, Kinsmen Pool days, and trail loops that feel a long way from the Trans-Canada rush. Assiniboine Gardens marks one of the floodplain planning names locals recognize from city maps. What sticks is the mix of river corridor, Keystone weekends, and a Westman desk that still says Wheat City without needing a brochure.
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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.
Connectivity · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities ranked by estimated best advertised download (Mbps). Anchored to the current ISED National Broadband Data vintage, then backcast along a national speed curve with city-specific fiber-arrival and 50/10 availability paths so relative ranks can change over the decade. Not a claim of audited historical hex maps for every year.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Construction · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities ranked by calendar-year building permit value. Direct rows sum Statistics Canada Table 34-10-0292-01. Cities without a direct reading use population × provincial per-capita permit intensity (estimated), so every seed city has a year-varying construction signal.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Composite · OpenStats
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). Growth and CSI use StatCan annual tables; permits, 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
Safety · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index (Table 35-10-0026-01). Rank 1 is highest CSI (worse). Values are CMA where a metro match exists, otherwise provincial CSI. Hometown pages label the grain.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Water · OpenStats
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
Water · OpenStats
OpenStats
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
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
Growth · OpenStats
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
Property tax · OpenStats
OpenStats
Municipalities ranked by residential mill rate. Rank 1 is the highest rate. Published municipal years are used when available; gaps are interpolated or follow the provincial median path so the tax pillar moves year to year for every city.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Livability
The Globe and Mail
2023 data partnership with Environics Analytics ranking 439 Canadian communities on ten livability categories.
Single edition · 2023
Only one published edition places Brandon in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Livability
MoneySense
Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
4 editions · 2014–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Wheat City is not just nostalgia; the municipal golf course still carries the name in city recreation planning.
City Plan frames Brandon as the economic heart of Westman, a regional service centre for southwestern Manitoba.
The Assiniboine River corridor is described on municipal pages as the heart of local outdoor spaces for walks, fishing, and gatherings.
Manitoba Ag Days sets up at the Keystone Centre, pulling farm traffic into the middle of the city calendar.
Protected municipal parks and trails along the river, where Westman weekends mean fishing rods, path walks, and family cookouts more than scenic overlooks.
Recreation and events campus that hosts Manitoba Ag Days and the big indoor crowds Brandon cannot fit elsewhere.
Trail and nature hub listed among the city's Assiniboine corridor regional assets, a practical starting point for riverbank walks.
Ice, pool, and track bookings under one roof when prairie weather pushes recreation indoors.
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