Pitt Meadows, British Columbia
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Pitt Meadows

Pitt Meadows drinking water hardness is 198 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Pitt Meadows

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50XP
#173

#173 of 343

50% City Score XP

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6/8 pillars on the board

50%#173

Decade trail

Pitt Meadows packs 6 of eight open-data pillars into its composite standing. Tap a rival below to see how the hometown stacks up head-to-head.

Pitt Meadows drinking water

Regional estimate from nearest municipal sample

Hardness, pH, and lead from municipal reports on the OpenStats water atlas. This page uses a regional estimate — open the water atlas for method notes.

Hardness
198 mg/L
very hard
pH
7.1
Lead
0.6 μg/L

Full Pitt Meadows water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Maple Ridge · vs KimberleyHardness guide

Watershed to tap · system map

How Pitt Meadows's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Pitt Meadows from municipal and provincial water records. Open the animated map for the full watershed-to-tap diagram — no nested topic navigation here.

Local numbers for Pitt Meadows

Permits, tax, internet, radon, hazards, drinking water, and sports rankings where a CHL hometown applies.

How Pitt Meadows scores

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Pitt Meadows sits at City Score rank #173 with a standing of 50%, from 6 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 141 places versus 2022 (#32 → #173).

Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #321 of 327 at 35 Bq/m³ survey mean. Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

Among Canadian cities on the hub, Pitt Meadows carries a City Score standing of 50% (rank #173 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 2 points above the British Columbia peer average across 58 ranked cities. Within British Columbia, Pitt Meadows ranks #23 of 58 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is indoor radon (standing 98%, rank #321 of 327, raw score 35.4). The weakest observed pillar is population growth (standing 1%, rank #340 of 343). Crime severity uses the Statistics Canada police-service CSI mapped to Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, municipal (table 35100063), not a regional proxy.

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 198 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Pitt Meadows. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#173
Arena rank (of 343)
50%
City Score
6
Pillars observed
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vs 2022
#32 → #173

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #173 of 343

City Score

6/8 pillars · main XP bar

50%#173
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #123

26%
Building permits

No placement

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Internet

Rank #13

97%
Radon

Rank #321

98%
Hazards

Rank #25

7%
Property tax

No placement

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Pitt Meadows pillar standing

Eight equal-weight City Score pillars, 2025 panel year.

TaxPermitsNetRadonWaterHazardsGrowthCrime

Source: OpenStats composite / study editions

City Score standing trend

Standing percentage by panel year (higher is better).

Years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

Source: OpenStats composite timeseries

Achievements

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Hometown notes

City profile

Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.

Pitt Meadows in brief

Pitt Meadows is part of the British Columbia civic atlas on OpenStats. Incorporation paperwork and railway maps usually start around 1914. Long before municipal boundaries, Indigenous nations already knew this valley and its seasons.

Pitt Meadows grew the familiar Canadian way: schools, rinks, churches, and a main street that still anchors weekends. Festivals and street names carry pieces of that plotline into the present.

Pitt Meadows service economy ties to county seats, highway corridors, and regional employers that keep main street businesses busy through the year. On OpenStats City Score, Pitt Meadows ranks 169 of 343. Municipal recreation, parks, trails, and utility pages remain the best live guide to how Pitt Meadows 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 Pitt Meadows 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 Pitt Meadows. 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 Pitt Meadows.

Drawn from Municipality of Pitt Meadows, 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 Pitt Meadows

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 household-weighted maximum advertised download (Mbps) from ISED National Broadband Data hex ISP rows, with hex-to-city assignment by population-weighted gravity. The headline 2025 score is the dwelling-weighted mean of per-hex technology ceilings (fibre and cable at 1 Gbps, DSL lower). Household-weighted 50/10 availability (%) is stored on atlas rows as avail_5010_pct. Earlier panel years backcast along a national speed curve with city-specific fiber and availability paths.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#13
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 1000

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). Crime severity uses StatCan police-service CSI only (Tables 35-10-0026-01 and 35-10-0063-01); cities without a police-service match take median standing on the safety pillar. Growth uses StatCan CSD estimates; construction uses verified municipal building-permit value per resident (population field on each city record, 2021 Census vintage); 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

#173
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.499

Safety · OpenStats

OpenStats Crime Severity Index

OpenStats

Communities ranked by Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index at police-service grain (Tables 35-10-0026-01 and 35-10-0063-01 for British Columbia). Rank 1 is highest CSI (worse). Cities without a police-service match are not listed; the safety pillar scores at median standing on City Score. Hometown pages name the police service and reference year.

CSI from Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, municipal (2025, Table 35-10-0063-01).

10 editions · 2016–2025

#71
Latest · 2025 · of 102
Score 60.99

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

#123
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 198

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

#321
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 35.4

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

#340
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score -0.019062822800262936

Hazards · OpenStats

OpenStats Seismic Hazard (PGA)

OpenStats

Communities ranked by NRCan peak ground acceleration (higher = stronger shaking hazard). Rank 1 is highest PGA. The seismic model is multi-year; values are carried across the City Score panel and flagged as static until NRCan publishes a new generation.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#25
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.223

Worth knowing in Pitt Meadows

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

Places to see

Pitt Meadows downtown

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