Dauphin, Manitoba
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Dauphin

Dauphin drinking water hardness is 179 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Dauphin

City8,368 pop
44XP
#278

#278 of 343

44% City Score XP

Rising
City Score XP

5/8 pillars on the board

44%#278

Decade trail

Dauphin 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.

Dauphin 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
179 mg/L
hard
pH
8.2
Lead
0.3 μg/L

Full Dauphin water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Thompson · vs WinnipegHardness guide

Watershed to tap · system map

How Dauphin's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Dauphin 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 Dauphin

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

How Dauphin scores

Rising+25

Dauphin sits at City Score rank #278 with a standing of 44%, 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 25 places versus 2022 (#303 → #278).

Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #10 of 327 at 203 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, Dauphin carries a City Score standing of 44% (rank #278 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 8 points below the Manitoba peer average across 13 ranked cities. Within Manitoba, Dauphin ranks #12 of 13 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is seismic hazard (standing 95%, rank #325 of 343, raw score 0.016). The weakest observed pillar is indoor radon (standing 3%, rank #10 of 327).

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 179 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Dauphin. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#278
Arena rank (of 343)
44%
City Score
5
Pillars observed
Rising+25
vs 2022
#303 → #278

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #278 of 343

City Score

5/8 pillars · main XP bar

44%#278
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #150

50%
Building permits

No placement

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Internet

Rank #313

9%
Radon

Rank #10

3%
Hazards

Rank #325

95%
Property tax

No placement

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Dauphin 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 +25

Hometown notes

City profile

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

Dauphin in brief

Dauphin is part of the Manitoba civic atlas on OpenStats.

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 Manitoba towns do. On OpenStats City Score, Dauphin ranks 228 of 343. Municipal recreation, parks, trails, and utility pages remain the best live guide to how Dauphin 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 Dauphin 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 Dauphin. 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 Dauphin. 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 Dauphin.

Drawn from Municipality of Dauphin, CBC Manitoba.

City Score over time

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

0%25%50%75%100%2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
OpenStats City Score

Rankings for Dauphin

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 Dauphin 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

#313
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 92.4

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

#278
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.435

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

#150
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 179

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

#10
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 202.9

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

#202
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.008455666470933647

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

#325
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.016

Worth knowing in Dauphin

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

  • Dauphin recreation and parks programming is published on the municipal website for residents and visitors.

    Municipality of Dauphin

  • OpenStats tracks Dauphin across water, radon, broadband, hazards, and City Score where data is available.

    Municipality of Dauphin

Places to see

Dauphin downtown

Historic main street blocks, local shops, and civic buildings remain the walking-tour version of Dauphin.

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