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Fort Saskatchewan

Fort Saskatchewan drinking water hardness is 185 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Fort Saskatchewan

Arena rank #83 of 172 · 56% XP

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7/8 pillars on the board

56%#83

Fort Saskatchewan 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.

Fort Saskatchewan drinking water

Direct municipal reading

Hardness, pH, and lead from municipal reports on the OpenStats water atlas.

Hardness
185 mg/L
very hard
pH
7.3
Lead
0.1 μg/L

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Local numbers for Fort Saskatchewan

Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Fort Saskatchewan.

How Fort Saskatchewan scores

Rising+104

Fort Saskatchewan sits at City Score rank #83 with a standing of 56%, 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 104 places versus 2022 (#187 → #83).

Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #107 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #332 of 343 at 35 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #18 of 343 (13.53 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

#83
Arena rank (of 172)
56%
City Score
7
Pillars observed
Rising+104
vs 2022
#187 → #83

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Arena rank #83 of 172

City Score

7/8 pillars · main XP bar

56%#83
Drinking water

Rank #152

44%
Building permits

Rank #107

69%
Internet

Rank #148

57%
Radon

Rank #332

97%
Hazards

No placement

Property tax

Rank #18

5%

Achievements

Rising +104Direct municipal reading

Hometown notes

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Earlier years: 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023

Fort Saskatchewan in brief

Fort Saskatchewan is part of the Alberta civic atlas on OpenStats.

Trading posts and early forts left fingerprints on street names and museum displays. Ask three locals which decade mattered most and you will get three different answers, all delivered with a grin.

Agriculture, forestry, tourism, and public-sector jobs still mix on the local tax roll the way many Alberta towns do. On OpenStats City Score, Fort Saskatchewan ranks 83 of 7. Municipal recreation, parks, trails, and utility pages remain the best live guide to how Fort Saskatchewan 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 Fort Saskatchewan 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 Fort Saskatchewan. 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 Fort Saskatchewan.

Drawn from Municipality of Fort Saskatchewan, 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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Rankings for Fort Saskatchewan

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 Broadband Download Speeds

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

#148
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 469.9

Construction · OpenStats

OpenStats Building Permit Value

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

#107
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 635404935

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). 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

#83
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.563

Safety · OpenStats

OpenStats Crime Severity Index

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

#111
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 90.62

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

#152
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 185

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

#332
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 35

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

#69
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.0225752508361204

Property tax · OpenStats

OpenStats Residential Mill Rates

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

#18
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 13.53382651063996

Worth knowing in Fort Saskatchewan

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

Places to see

North Saskatchewan River

North Saskatchewan River shapes how Fort Saskatchewan talks about geography, recreation, and seasonal flooding or drought planning.

Fort Saskatchewan downtown

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

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