British Columbia · Civic arena
Chilliwack drinking water hardness is 97 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#128 of 343
53% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Chilliwack 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 Chilliwack from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Chilliwack.
Chilliwack sits at City Score rank #128 with a standing of 53%, 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 47 places versus 2022 (#175 → #128).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #221 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #254 of 343 at 97 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #189 of 343 (9.74 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 Chilliwack.
The city's main arts venue for season launches and local performance. Progress coverage treats it as a standing cultural address.
A named municipal nature reserve on the parks list. It is the quiet counterpoint to Heritage Park event weekends.
Municipal parks pages still group Sardis-Vedder as one area label, which matches how residents give directions across that corridor.
Where Chilliwack sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Chilliwack reads as a Fraser Valley city with neighbourhood names that still matter on the municipal parks map. Sardis-Vedder is a corridor label, not a tourist invention, and Yarrow, Rosedale, and Fairfield keep their own park signs. The Progress desk covers housing targets, wildfire smoke, and What's Happening Chilliwack listings in the same week, which is a fair portrait of a place that juggles growth talk with valley weather.
Trails and water set the civic mood. Vedder Park and the Vedder Rotary Trail are everyday recreation until flood-mitigation closures show up on the city site. Fraser River Flood Protection sits in the public-safety menu for a reason. Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve, Chilliwack Community Forest, and Island 22 give the nature-side counterweight to arena nights at Landing Sports Centre and big-room events at Chilliwack Heritage Park. Cultus Lake stays in the orbit through the Park Board listing and community sports notes, even when the beach day is a short drive rather than a city block.
Culture has a proper address at the Chilliwack Cultural Centre, and the Chilliwack Fair still anchors the late-summer calendar on the Progress community pages. Eastern Hillsides and Promontory show up in the parks area taxonomy beside Ryder Lake, which is how locals already slice the map. The OpenStats City Score puts Chilliwack at rank 100 of 125 in 2026, but the hometown tell is simpler: which side of Sardis-Vedder you mean, whether the Rotary Trail is open, and whether Fair week still feels like the whole valley showed up.
Drawn from City of Chilliwack, Chilliwack Progress, City of Chilliwack.
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
Maclean's
Successor-style municipal livability ranking published by Maclean's for 2019 and 2021 (no 2020 edition).
Single edition · 2021
Only one published edition places Chilliwack 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 parks pages still group Sardis-Vedder as one area label, which matches how residents give directions across that corridor.
Vedder Rotary Trail closures for flood mitigation work land on the city homepage like ordinary public works, not rare drama.
Fraser River Flood Protection has its own public-safety nav slot, a hometown signal that dykes and river levels are standing civic business.
Yarrow, Rosedale, and Fairfield each keep named parks on the city list, which is why those community names refuse to blur into one suburb.
A Sardis-Vedder park address tied to the wider Vedder trail network. When flood work hits the Rotary Trail, this is the geography people mean.
A named municipal nature reserve on the parks list. It is the quiet counterpoint to Heritage Park event weekends.
The city's main arts venue for season launches and local performance. Progress coverage treats it as a standing cultural address.
The big municipal events ground for fairs and large gatherings. Fair week and exhibition calendars still orbit this site.
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