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Lethbridge drinking water hardness is 151 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Lethbridge

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50XP
#167

#167 of 343

50% City Score XP

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6/8 pillars on the board

50%#167

Decade trail

Lethbridge packs 6 of eight open-data pillars into its composite standing. Tap a rival below to see how the hometown stacks up head-to-head.

Lethbridge drinking water

Direct municipal reading

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

Hardness
151 mg/L
hard
pH
7.9
Lead
0 μg/L

Full Lethbridge water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Coaldale · vs RedcliffHardness guide

Watershed to tap · system map

How Lethbridge's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Lethbridge 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 Lethbridge

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

Sports

Junior hockey in Lethbridge

Full sports page →
Team
Lethbridge Hurricanes
League
WHL
Points %
70.9%

67 GP · 95 pts · Compare CHL cities

How Lethbridge scores

Rising+23

Lethbridge sits at City Score rank #167 with a standing of 50%, from 6 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 23 places versus 2022 (#190 → #167).

Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #207 of 327 at 93 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.

In the 2025 City Score edition, Lethbridge carries a City Score standing of 50% (rank #167 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 1 points above the Alberta peer average across 51 ranked cities. Within Alberta, Lethbridge ranks #24 of 51 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is population growth (standing 67%, rank #113 of 343, +1.7% annual growth). The weakest observed pillar is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 16%, rank #288 of 343). Crime severity uses the Statistics Canada police-service CSI mapped to Lethbridge, Alberta (table 35100026), not a regional proxy.

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 151 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Lethbridge. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#167
Arena rank (of 343)
50%
City Score
6
Pillars observed
Rising+23
vs 2022
#190 → #167

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #167 of 343

City Score

6/8 pillars · main XP bar

50%#167
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #193

73%
Building permits

No placement

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Internet

Rank #288

16%
Radon

Rank #207

63%
Hazards

Rank #185

54%
Property tax

No placement

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Lethbridge 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

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Hometown notes

City profile

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

Lethbridge in brief

Lethbridge is a southern Alberta city split by the Oldman River and stitched together by the coulees. The Lethbridge River Valley drops through the middle of town with trails, wetlands, and cottonwood bottoms that locals treat as everyday wilderness, not a weekend trip. Above the valley, the High Level Bridge spans the gap as the CPR trestle everyone uses as a landmark. Brewery Gardens and Indian Battle Park sit on that edge, with views toward the bridge and the old Galt No. 8 mine site.

The civic motto Gateway to Opportunity dates to 1907, and the Blackfoot place-name Sikoohkotoki (black rock) still ties the story to coal. Municipal history moves from Coalbanks-era mining into irrigation, specialty crops, and food processing. That ag corridor still shapes how the city talks about itself. Today the Lethbridge & District Exhibition grounds host Whoop-Up Days, the summer fair week with parade and midway that still marks the calendar. Whoop-Up Drive and Crowsnest Trail carry weekday traffic; Scenic Drive construction notices are a seasonal fact of life.

West Lethbridge became the forever home of the University of Lethbridge after the 1971 move across the river, and Lethbridge Polytechnic rounds out the campus-city identity. Chinook Regional Hospital serves a wide southern Alberta catchment that reaches well past city limits. Down in the valley, Helen Schuler Nature Centre anchors nature education along the River Valley trails. Put the pieces together and you get a place where agriculture, campus life, and the coulees share the same skyline, and where fair week still feels like the whole town showed up.

Drawn from City of Lethbridge - Our history, City of Lethbridge - River Valley, City of Lethbridge - Brewery Gardens, City of Lethbridge - Whoop-Up Days, Lethbridge Herald.

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 Lethbridge

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 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

#288
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 105.7

Sports · OpenStats

OpenStats CHL Points Percentage

OpenStats

Canadian Hockey League (OHL, WHL, QMJHL) member cities ranked by regular-season points percentage. One CHL team maps to each OpenStats hometown slug; standings snapshot is curated from public league tables.

Single edition · 2025

#13
Published · 2025 · of 45
Score 0.709

Only one published edition places Lethbridge in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

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

#167
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.501

Safety · OpenStats

OpenStats Crime Severity Index

OpenStats

Communities ranked by Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index at police-service grain (Tables 35-10-0026-01 and 35-10-0063-01 for British Columbia). Rank 1 is highest CSI (worse). Cities without a police-service match are not listed; the safety pillar scores at median standing on City Score. Hometown pages name the police service and reference year.

CSI from Lethbridge, Alberta (2025, Table 35-10-0026-01).

10 editions · 2016–2025

#28
Latest · 2025 · of 102
Score 107.69

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

#193
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 151

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

#207
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 92.6

Sports · OpenStats

OpenStats Local Sports Depth

OpenStats

Hometowns with a mapped junior hockey franchise ranked by local sports depth: league tier (CHL member leagues = 1.0, MHL = 0.65) multiplied by regular-season points percentage. Surfaces cities with both a franchise and a strong standings year; not a City Score pillar input.

Single edition · 2025

#13
Published · 2025 · of 49
Score 0.709

Only one published edition places Lethbridge in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

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

#113
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.01695354995705697

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

#185
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.042

Livability

Globe and Mail Most Livable Cities

The Globe and Mail

2023 data partnership with Environics Analytics ranking 439 Canadian communities on ten livability categories.

Single edition · 2023

#36
Published · 2023 · of 439

Only one published edition places Lethbridge in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Worth knowing in Lethbridge

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

  • Sikoohkotoki is the Blackfoot place-name meaning black rock, tied to the area's coal story.

    City of Lethbridge

  • The High Level Bridge is the CPR trestle municipal history calls an iconic landmark over the coulees.

    City of Lethbridge

  • Whoop-Up Days is the city's major summer fair week, with parade, midway, and Exhibition grounds programming.

    City of Lethbridge

  • The University of Lethbridge made west Lethbridge its forever home after moving across the river in 1971.

    City of Lethbridge

Places to see

Lethbridge River Valley

In-city wilderness of trails, coulees, wetlands, and cottonwood bottoms along the Oldman River. Locals use it as daily recreation rather than a far-flung park trip.

Brewery Gardens

Valley-edge gardens with views of the High Level Bridge and the Galt No. 8 mine site. A quiet overlook beside Indian Battle Park trail access.

Helen Schuler Nature Centre

River-valley nature education hub that orients visitors to the Oldman corridor trails and wildlife. A good first stop before dropping into the coulees.

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