Peace River, Alberta
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Peace River

Peace River drinking water hardness is 119 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Peace River

Arena rank #207 of 172 · 48% XP

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7/8 pillars on the board

48%#207

Peace River 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.

Peace River drinking water

Direct municipal reading

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

Hardness
119 mg/L
moderately hard
pH
7.2
Lead
0.7 μg/L

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Local numbers for Peace River

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

How Peace River scores

Rising+94

Peace River sits at City Score rank #207 with a standing of 48%, 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 94 places versus 2022 (#301 → #207).

Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #153 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #226 of 343 at 119 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #161 of 343 (10.15 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

#207
Arena rank (of 172)
48%
City Score
7
Pillars observed
Rising+94
vs 2022
#301 → #207

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Arena rank #207 of 172

City Score

7/8 pillars · main XP bar

48%#207
Drinking water

Rank #272

79%
Building permits

Rank #153

56%
Internet

Rank #247

28%
Radon

Rank #226

66%
Hazards

No placement

Property tax

Rank #161

47%

Achievements

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Hometown notes

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Earlier years: 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023

Peace River in brief

Peace River is part of the Alberta civic atlas on OpenStats.

Decades of ordinary town-building followed: recreation centres, county fairs, and service jobs tied to the wider region. Festivals and street names carry pieces of that plotline into the present.

Agriculture, forestry, tourism, and public-sector jobs still mix on the local tax roll the way many Alberta towns do. On OpenStats City Score, Peace River ranks 207 of 7. Municipal recreation, parks, trails, and utility pages remain the best live guide to how Peace River 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 Peace River 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 Peace River. 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 Peace River.

Drawn from Municipality of Peace River, CBC Calgary / Edmonton.

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 Peace River

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

#247
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 262.5

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

#153
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 522992544

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

#207
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.478

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

#123
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 90.62

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

#272
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 119

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

#226
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 119

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

#141
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.014044943820224719

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

#161
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 10.151014307210637

Worth knowing in Peace River

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Peace River

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Peace River downtown

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