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Melfort

Melfort drinking water hardness is 214 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Melfort

Arena rank #235 of 172 · 45% XP

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7/8 pillars on the board

45%#235

Melfort 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.

Melfort drinking water

Direct municipal reading

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

Hardness
214 mg/L
very hard
pH
7.7
Lead
0.6 μg/L

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Local numbers for Melfort

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

How Melfort scores

Melfort sits at City Score rank #235 with a standing of 45%, 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 #251 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #231 of 343 at 114 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #322 of 343 (7.12 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

#235
Arena rank (of 172)
45%
City Score
7
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45%#235
Drinking water

Rank #101

29%
Building permits

Rank #251

27%
Internet

Rank #27

92%
Radon

Rank #231

67%
Hazards

No placement

Property tax

Rank #322

94%

Achievements

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Hometown notes

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Earlier years: 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023

Melfort in brief

Melfort sits in Saskatchewan. Long before municipal boundaries, Indigenous nations already knew this valley and its seasons.

Fort days still show up in heritage walks and local school projects. Walk the older blocks and you can still spot seams between eras.

Melfort service economy ties to county seats, highway corridors, and regional employers that keep main street businesses busy through the year. On OpenStats City Score, Melfort ranks 235 of 7. Municipal recreation, parks, trails, and utility pages remain the best live guide to how Melfort 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 Melfort 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 Melfort. 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 Melfort.

Drawn from Municipality of Melfort, CBC Saskatchewan.

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 Melfort

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

#27
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 687.6

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

#251
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 293687394

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

#235
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.455

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

#10
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 146.64

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

#101
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 214

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

#231
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 114

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

#335
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score -0.0137434554973822

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

#322
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 7.11945644077889

Worth knowing in Melfort

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

  • Melfort recreation and parks programming is published on the municipal website for residents and visitors.

    Municipality of Melfort

  • OpenStats tracks Melfort across water, radon, broadband, hazards, and City Score where data is available.

    Municipality of Melfort

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Melfort downtown

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

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