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Parksville drinking water hardness is 83 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#8 of 343
69% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Parksville 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 Parksville from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Parksville.
Parksville sits at City Score rank #8 with a standing of 69%, 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. Rising 10 places versus 2022 (#18 → #8).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #57 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #335 of 343 at 33 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #314 of 343 (7.29 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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Published residential mill-rate context for Parksville.
Listed city park and trail destination inland from the beach strip. Handy when you want shade and a shorter walk.
Named municipal nature stop away from the sand. A quieter counterweight to Community Park crowds.
Parksville Community Park hosts food trucks and beachfront gathering space in summer.
Where Parksville sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Parksville is an Oceanside city on the traditional territory of Coast Salish Nations, home to the Snaw-Naw-As First Nation and the Qualicum First Nation. The mental map starts at Parksville Beach and Parksville Community Park, where food trucks, low-tide sand, and summer programming set the weekly rhythm. Tourism partners sell the wider Parksville Qualicum Beach strip, and locals shorten it to PQB without needing a glossary.
Away from the tide line, Englishman River Water Service, Parksville Wetlands, Top Bridge Park, and Springwood Park give the inland half of the week its own errands. Shelly Parks sit in the municipal parks list beside wildlife notices on Shelly Road and Martindale Road. Foster Park and Marks Nature Park round out the quieter green corners when Community Park is full. The Parksville Civic and Technology Centre keeps weekend hours when beach weather fails, and Alberni Highway construction reminders prove commuting talk never fully disappears even in a beach town.
Parksville Qualicum News covers Beachfest weekends, sand-sculpting exhibitions, Oceanside track meets, Salish Coast Music Festival lineups, and the Rathtrevor Beach ranking chatter that lights up summer conversations. City service notices lean hard on Level 4 water conservation and campfire bans when July turns dry, and Emergency Management Oceanside keeps Parksville and Qualicum Beach on one alert brand. Let's Talk Parksville and the It's Your City! eNews carry election and project detail. On OpenStats City Score for 2026, Parksville sits at rank 3 of 125. Directions still end with meet me at the beach.
Drawn from City of Parksville, Parksville Qualicum News, Visit Parksville Qualicum Beach, City of Parksville - Voyent Alert.
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 Parksville in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
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 Parksville 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.
Municipal welcome pages acknowledge Snaw-Naw-As First Nation and Qualicum First Nation territory.
Parksville Community Park hosts food trucks and beachfront gathering space in summer.
Englishman River Water Service is a named municipal utility file on the city site.
Emergency Management Oceanside links Parksville and Qualicum Beach under one alert system brand.
Beachfront community park with food trucks and summer programming. The default meet-up when someone says see you at the beach.
Named municipal nature stop away from the sand. A quieter counterweight to Community Park crowds.
Listed city park and trail destination inland from the beach strip. Handy when you want shade and a shorter walk.
Civic hub with evening and weekend hours. The indoor anchor when sand sculpture weekends give way to rain.
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