British Columbia · Civic arena
Penticton drinking water hardness is 208 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#312 of 343
37% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Penticton 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.
Rivalries on deck
Hardness, pH, and lead from municipal reports on the OpenStats water atlas.
Full Penticton water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Pitt Meadows · vs KamloopsHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Penticton from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Penticton.
Penticton sits at City Score rank #312 with a standing of 37%, 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 #336 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #94 of 343 at 208 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #207 of 343 (9.37 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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Arena rank #312 of 343
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Achievements
Published residential mill-rate context for Penticton.
City park climb with valley views above the two-lake strip. A short workout when the beaches are packed.
North-shore park tied to Peach Festival bike valet and lakeside summer crowds. Handy staging ground during festival week.
Peach Festival is billed as one of the largest free family festivals in Canada, running Aug. 5-9 in 2026.
Where Penticton sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Penticton lives between two lakes. City beach pages run from Okanagan Beach and Okanagan Lake Park on the north shore to Skaha Beach and Skaha Lake Park on the south, with Marina Way, Sudbury, and Three Mile filling the local swim map. Skaha Beach gets the municipal boast about ranking among Canada's top beaches; Munson Mountain and Rotary Park handle the inland lookout and picnic half of the same weekend.
August belongs to Penticton Peach Festival. City logistics talk Lakeshore and Veterans Way, park-and-ride lots at Cherry Lane and the Seniors' Drop-In Centre, extended transit, and a free bike valet at Okanagan Lake Park while tens of thousands move through downtown. The rest of the year fills with night markets, farmers markets, and arena nights at the South Okanagan Events Centre. Cleland Community Theatre, Leir House Cultural Centre, and the Community Centre on Power Street keep arts and aquatics on the same civic campus.
Penticton Herald covers child-care expansions, affordable housing adds, and the Okanagan wildfire season that can turn the sky brown overnight. Summer utility language leans toward Stage 3 water restrictions when outdoor use stays high. Ikeda Japanese Garden, the Rose Garden, and the Youth Park skatebowl give quieter or louder alternatives to the lake edge, while McLaren Arena handles the ice calendar across town from SOEC. On OpenStats City Score for 2026, Penticton sits at rank 112 of 125. Ask for a meet-up and you will hear Skaha, Lakeshore, or Peach Fest before you hear a mall name.
Drawn from City of Penticton - Beaches, City of Penticton - Peach Festival, City of Penticton - Parks and Gardens, City of Penticton - Arts & Culture, Penticton Herald.
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 Penticton 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 Penticton 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.
The city maintains public beaches on both Skaha Lake and Okanagan Lake.
Peach Festival is billed as one of the largest free family festivals in Canada, running Aug. 5-9 in 2026.
South Okanagan Events Centre is a 5,000-seat arena for concerts and hockey.
Munson Mountain is listed among city parks for a short climb above the valley floor.
South-end lake beach the city highlights among Canada's top beach lists. A classic sand-and-swim stop when the valley heats up.
North-shore park tied to Peach Festival bike valet and lakeside summer crowds. Handy staging ground during festival week.
City park climb with valley views above the two-lake strip. A short workout when the beaches are packed.
Named city garden for a quieter hour away from Lakeshore traffic. Pairs well with a Community Centre or Cleland Theatre evening.
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