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North Vancouver

North Vancouver drinking water hardness is 271 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

Civic arena · hometown HUD

North Vancouver

Arena rank #340 of 172 · 29% XP

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7/8 pillars on the board

29%#340

North Vancouver 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.

North Vancouver drinking water

Direct municipal reading

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

Hardness
271 mg/L
very hard
pH
7.9
Lead
0.7 μg/L

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Local numbers for North Vancouver

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

How North Vancouver scores

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North Vancouver sits at City Score rank #340 with a standing of 29%, 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 43 places versus 2022 (#297 → #340).

Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #245 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #15 of 343 at 271 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #86 of 343 (11.82 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

#340
Arena rank (of 172)
29%
City Score
7
Pillars observed
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Arena rank #340 of 172

City Score

7/8 pillars · main XP bar

29%#340
Drinking water

Rank #14

4%
Building permits

Rank #245

29%
Internet

Rank #11

97%
Radon

Rank #15

4%
Hazards

No placement

Property tax

Rank #86

25%

Achievements

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Hometown notes

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Earlier years: 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023

North Vancouver in brief

North Vancouver is part of the British Columbia civic atlas on OpenStats.

Decades of ordinary town-building followed: recreation centres, county fairs, and service jobs tied to the wider region. Walk the older blocks and you can still spot seams between eras.

Agriculture, forestry, tourism, and public-sector jobs still mix on the local tax roll the way many British Columbia towns do. On OpenStats City Score, North Vancouver ranks 340 of 7. Municipal recreation, parks, trails, and utility pages remain the best live guide to how North Vancouver 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 North Vancouver 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 North Vancouver. 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 North Vancouver.

Drawn from Municipality of North Vancouver, CBC British Columbia.

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 North Vancouver

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

#11
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 729.5

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

#245
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 303995118

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

#340
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.29

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

#65
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 92.37

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

#14
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 271

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

#15
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 271

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

#331
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score -0.010947355652595827

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

#86
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 11.817528320994978

Worth knowing in North Vancouver

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

Places to see

North Vancouver downtown

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

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