British Columbia · Civic arena
Kamloops drinking water hardness is 134 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#316 of 343
37% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Kamloops 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.
Rivalries on deck
Hardness, pH, and lead from municipal reports on the OpenStats water atlas.
Full Kamloops water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Campbell River · vs PentictonHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Kamloops from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Kamloops.
Kamloops sits at City Score rank #316 with a standing of 37%, 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. Dropping 48 places versus 2022 (#268 → #316).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #219 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #123 of 343 at 184 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #114 of 343 (11.23 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 #316 of 343
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Achievements
Published residential mill-rate context for Kamloops.
Blazers home rink and a core Tournament Capital venue when Kamloops hosts a crowd.
Hillside nature park overlooking grassland and river country on the edge of town.
Tourism welcomes visitors to the 'Loops while the city markets itself as Canada's Tournament Capital.
Where Kamloops sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Kamloops is easier to place once you use the older name. City pages translate Tk'emlúps as where the rivers meet, home of the Tk’emlupsemc, the people of the confluence, where the North and South Thompson come together in the Thompson Valley. Tourism shortens the whole package to the 'Loops, and the grasslands, ponderosa pines, and Thompson River do the rest of the explaining. This is Southern Interior country with big sky, grassland edges, and a working sports calendar.
The civic brand that sticks is Canada's Tournament Capital. Amateur tournaments, high-performance camps, and national events cycle through town, while the Kamloops Blazers fill the Sandman Centre and the Kamloops Storm work McArthur Island Sports & Events Centre. Thompson Rivers University keeps WolfPack nights on the board. Between games, Riverside Park and Kenna Cartwright Nature Park are the default answers for a walk, and Kamloopa Powwow and the Secwépemc Museum & Heritage Park keep Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc culture on the public calendar.
Food and brew scenes have caught up with the river story: tourism talks five microbreweries, distilleries, cideries, and Thompson Valley wineries beside the tournament hotels. Castanet now carries the daily desk that used to live under Kamloops This Week. OpenStats still scores the city carefully on permits and radon among other measures, but hometown talk starts with confluence, tournaments, and which park you meant. Kamloops Lake sits on the tourism map when the rivers feel too familiar. If the rivers, the 'Loops, and Tournament Capital all show up, the map is right.
Drawn from City of Kamloops, Tourism Kamloops, Tourism Kamloops, Castanet Kamloops.
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 Kamloops 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.
City pages translate Kamloops from Tk'emlúps, where the rivers meet, for the Tk’emlupsemc people of the confluence.
Tourism welcomes visitors to the 'Loops while the city markets itself as Canada's Tournament Capital.
Kamloops Blazers hockey anchors Sandman Centre nights on the tournament-capital sports board.
Kamloopa Powwow is a named date on Tourism Kamloops' Indigenous experiences calendar.
Riverfront default when someone in the 'Loops says they are heading to the park after work.
Hillside nature park overlooking grassland and river country on the edge of town.
Blazers home rink and a core Tournament Capital venue when Kamloops hosts a crowd.
Heritage site for learning Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc history beside the confluence story.
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