Alberta · Civic arena
Lacombe drinking water hardness is 215 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#337 of 343
31% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Lacombe 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 Lacombe from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Lacombe.
Lacombe sits at City Score rank #337 with a standing of 31%, 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. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #317 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #26 of 343 at 265 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #26 of 343 (13.23 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 #337 of 343
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Achievements
Published residential mill-rate context for Lacombe.
Home of the Kinsmen Aquatic Centre, arena drop-ins, and the outdoor splash park. Anchor recreation address for swim lessons and Lacombe
Banquet and conference venue for up to 500, set in Lest We Forget Park beside historic downtown. Used for weddings, grads, reunions,
The Kinsmen Aquatic Centre inside Gary Moe Auto Group Sportsplex has a 25-metre six-lane main pool plus a teaching/leisure pool.
Where Lacombe sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Lacombe sits on the Highway 2 corridor where Highway 12 crosses, close enough that bridge work on the interchange makes the municipal news desk. The Lacombe Express covers police, chamber awards, and Best Of Lacombe Readers Choice votes that keep Main Street shops in the conversation. Downtown alleys carry murals of streetscapes from 1890 to 1910, and the Lacombe Memorial Centre faces Lest We Forget Park against restored Edwardian buildings when weddings and galas fill the rooms.
Recreation clusters at the Gary Moe Auto Group Sportsplex. The Kinsmen Aquatic Centre runs a 25-metre six-lane pool, leisure tank, and hot tub, with an outdoor splash park beside it and Lacombe Dolphins meets that clear the schedule. ME Global Athletic Park and Michener Recreation Park handle diamonds and pitches the city pitches as some of the finest playing fields in central Alberta. Len Thompson Fish Pond and the Vesta Energy Fish Fetch Off-Leash Dog Park round out the park list people actually name.
Trail days usually mean Cranna Lake Trail fitness stations or the natural paths out to Elizabeth Lake from the Cranna Lake Trailhead, with Barnett Lake Nature Trail on the municipal map set. Alberta Day puts free programming on the calendar, including a WIBIT public swim at the Kinsmen Aquatic Centre. Lacombe Police Service files and chamber business awards keep the Express busy between recreation seasons. The Lacombe Research and Development Centre remains a standing local file when agriculture research jobs and land use come up. Hometown colour here is lakes, murals, and the Sportsplex.
Drawn from City of Lacombe - Trails, City of Lacombe - Lacombe Memorial Centre, City of Lacombe - Kinsmen Aquatic Centre, City of Lacombe - Sports Fields, Lacombe Express.
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
The Globe and Mail
2023 data partnership with Environics Analytics ranking 439 Canadian communities on ten livability categories.
Single edition · 2023
Only one published edition places Lacombe 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.
5 editions · 2013–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Cranna Lake Trail includes outdoor fitness stations supported through the Bill Nielsen Trail Society.
The Kinsmen Aquatic Centre inside Gary Moe Auto Group Sportsplex has a 25-metre six-lane main pool plus a teaching/leisure pool.
Lacombe lists 16 ball diamonds and three soccer pitches for league and tournament play.
Downtown murals depict local streetscapes from the 1890 to 1910 period along historic alleys.
Paved fitness loop with stations at Cranna Lake, plus natural trails from the Cranna Lake Trailhead out to Elizabeth Lake interpretative signs. A standard Lacombe after-work walk.
Banquet and conference venue for up to 500, set in Lest We Forget Park beside historic downtown. Used for weddings, grads, reunions, and civic events.
Home of the Kinsmen Aquatic Centre, arena drop-ins, and the outdoor splash park. Anchor recreation address for swim lessons and Lacombe Dolphins meets.
Athletic park with tennis courts near Lacombe Composite High School, part of the city's tournament-ready sports-field network.
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