Alberta · Civic arena
Canmore drinking water hardness is 119 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#342 of 343
26% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Canmore 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 Canmore from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Canmore.
Canmore sits at City Score rank #342 with a standing of 26%, 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. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #151 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #19 of 343 at 269 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #28 of 343 (13.19 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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Arena rank #342 of 343
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Rank #271
Rank #151
Rank #287
Rank #19
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Rank #28
Achievements
Published residential mill-rate context for Canmore.
Indoor aquatics, climbing, fitness, library, and galleries under one roof. It is the year-round counterweight to trail and river days.
Host grounds for Canmore Folk Festival, Highland Games, and Canada Day, with the Stan Rogers Stage as the music anchor. Summer weekends
Municipal wildlife copy leads with Living in the Bow Valley and the Give Wildlife Space campaign, including bus-length distance rules.
Where Canmore sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Canmore is a Bow Valley mountain town on the Bow River. Town wildlife pages open with Living in the Bow Valley and the Give Wildlife Space campaign; Rocky Mountain Outlook covers the same valley beat as Best of the Bow. Riverside paths and parks sit on the Bow with mountain views, while Quarry Lake Park draws day-use crowds along Spray Lakes Road on the south side. East-valley neighbourhoods like Elk Run and Eagle Terrace look toward the Three Sisters and everyday field time.
Wildlife corridors are daily language here. The Lower Silvertip Wildlife Corridor runs through northeast Canmore with signed boundaries, and planning files for Three Sisters Mountain Village and Smith Creek keep corridor talk in the news. Wildfire danger sits on the homepage for Canmore and the Calgary Forest Area, with Bow Valley Community Fireguard work tied to sites like Canmore Nordic Centre Provincial Park and Dead Man's Flats. Bear country rules and attractant habits shape how people share trails with elk and bears.
Centennial Park hosts the Canmore Folk Festival at the Stan Rogers Stage, plus Highland Games and Canada Day. Elevation Place packs aquatics, climbing, fitness, a library, and galleries under one roof. Roam buses move people who leave the car home. Housing pressure shows up in municipal tools like the Livability Tax Program and Vital Homes contributions collected with property taxes. Grassi Lakes trails appear in RMO hazard coverage when rockfall closes routes. On OpenStats City Score for 2026, Canmore sits at rank 96 of 125. Locals still introduce the place as Bow Valley first.
Drawn from Town of Canmore - Wildlife, Town of Canmore - Parks, playgrounds, sport fields, Rocky Mountain Outlook, Town of Canmore - Bow Valley Community Fireguard.
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 Canmore in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Livability
Maclean's
Successor-style municipal livability ranking published by Maclean's for 2019 and 2021 (no 2020 edition).
Single edition · 2019
Only one published edition places Canmore 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.
Municipal wildlife copy leads with Living in the Bow Valley and the Give Wildlife Space campaign, including bus-length distance rules.
The Lower Silvertip Wildlife Corridor in northeast Canmore has multi-owner management and boundary signs.
Canmore Folk Festival, billed as Alberta's longest-running folk festival, plays Centennial Park at the Stan Rogers Stage.
Elevation Place combines indoor aquatics, climbing, fitness, a library, and art galleries in one hub.
South-side Bow Valley day-use lake along Spray Lakes Road, a favourite swim and picnic stop when the weather cooperates. It is one of the town's clearest outdoor landmarks.
Host grounds for Canmore Folk Festival, Highland Games, and Canada Day, with the Stan Rogers Stage as the music anchor. Summer weekends often start here.
Indoor aquatics, climbing, fitness, library, and galleries under one roof. It is the year-round counterweight to trail and river days.
World-class ski and bike venue on the edge of town, also named in Bow Valley Community Fireguard project work. Locals treat it as both recreation home and wildfire-preparedness geography.
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