Alberta · Civic arena
Grande Prairie drinking water hardness is 102 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#108 of 343
55% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Grande Prairie 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 Grande Prairie from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Grande Prairie.
Grande Prairie sits at City Score rank #108 with a standing of 55%, 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 145 places versus 2022 (#253 → #108).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #28 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #44 of 343 at 252 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #80 of 343 (11.93 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 #108 of 343
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Rank #80
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Published residential mill-rate context for Grande Prairie.
Major aquatics and fitness complex for the months when Muskoseepi Pond is frozen or the airshow calendar is quiet.
Large south-side park with camping, golf, and ball fields, including Fossil Energy Ball Park for the energy-named diamond crowd.
Headlines and city branding default to GP, while regional health and northern Alberta stories still situate the place as Peace Country.
Where Grande Prairie sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Grande Prairie shortens to GP in almost every local headline, and the wider map still calls this Peace Country. Resource markets shape how the city pitches itself: oil and gas, forestry, and agriculture sit in the investor language, while energy-sector naming shows up on venues like Bonnetts Energy Centre and Fossil Energy Ball Park at South Bear Creek Park. Service updates name corridors such as Resources Road, the kind of concrete detail that tells you GP runs on trucks and schedules as much as prairie sky.
Recreation is the other civic brand. Muskoseepi Park and Muskoseepi Pond sit at the centre of summer and winter listings, while South Bear Creek Park stretches the south side with camping, golf, and ball fields. Eastlink Centre covers aquatics and fitness; the Community Knowledge Campus ties school and recreation together; and Crystal Lake Bike Skills Park gives riders a named destination. Summer programming under Experience Grande Prairie, Chariot Fest processions, and the GP Airshow keep the calendar loud enough that visitors learn the abbreviation fast.
History stays close to the ground here. Reverend Forbes Homestead hosts quiet summer programming, and the South Peace Regional Archives keep regional memory next to the arena complex. Locals talk South Peace when they mean the institutional orbit around GP, and Peace Country when the story stretches into northern Alberta health and travel. Tawâw/Welcome is how the city frames Indigenous relations on its own pages. If you know Muskoseepi, Bonnetts, and Resources Road, you already have the working map.
Drawn from City of Grande Prairie, City of Grande Prairie, City of Grande Prairie, Daily Herald Tribune.
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
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.
Headlines and city branding default to GP, while regional health and northern Alberta stories still situate the place as Peace Country.
Municipal economic copy names oil and gas, forestry, and agriculture as the resource-market foundations under investor talk.
Energy sponsorship naming is local shorthand: Bonnetts Energy Centre for arena nights, Fossil Energy Ball Park for diamond days at South Bear Creek.
The GP Airshow turns the regional airport into a Peace Country aviation weekend that the Daily Herald Tribune covers as hometown spectacle.
Central city park with pond, pavilion, and disc-golf amenities, the default answer when someone in GP says they are heading to the park.
Large south-side park with camping, golf, and ball fields, including Fossil Energy Ball Park for the energy-named diamond crowd.
Major aquatics and fitness complex for the months when Muskoseepi Pond is frozen or the airshow calendar is quiet.
Historic site used for summer afternoon-tea programming, a quieter South Peace stop beside the louder festival calendar.
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