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Powell River drinking water hardness is 134 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#338 of 343
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7/8 pillars on the board
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Powell 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.
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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 Powell River from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Powell River.
Powell River sits at City Score rank #338 with a standing of 30%, 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 #269 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #124 of 343 at 184 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #79 of 343 (11.95 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 Powell River.
Westview's main commercial street and the Blackberry Festival party corridor. When it closes for August night markets, the whole qathet
Named tourism district kept distinct from the Westview ferry core. Worth a separate stroll if you want the older street rhythm.
Blackberry Festival street party shuts Marine Avenue, with Willingdon Beach hosting follow-on jam and fireworks programming.
Where Powell River sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Powell River introduces itself as part of the qathet region more often than as a lone city limit. Westview holds the ferry terminal and Marine Avenue commercial strip. Historic Townsite District keeps a separate older street grid on the tourism map, a reminder that this coast has more than one downtown memory. Powell Lake sits inland as the big freshwater neighbour, while the Sunshine Coast Trail pulls hikers into the same north-coast conversation as Lund and Texada Island when weekend plans stretch past city hall.
August belongs to Blackberry Festival. Marine Avenue closes for the street party, then the night drifts toward Willingdon Beach for music and fireworks talk that the Peak covers like civic weather. City bulletins braid that festival calendar with Community Forest grant updates and aquatic centre roof work, the kind of housekeeping that still feels local. qathet365 treats weekend plans as a regional feed, and the Powell River Regals keep hockey road trips tied to ferry timing and rink gossip.
Ferry schedules shape grocery runs as much as holiday plans. Community Forest money shows up when clubs need a grant form revised to match council policy. On OpenStats City Score for 2026, Powell River ranks 2 of 125, a data note that sits beside blackberry season and Westview sailings rather than replacing them. Locals still orient by qathet first, then ask which sailing you caught and whether Townsite or Westview is the stop for coffee. Peak sports and ferry fare stories keep the same coast-wide beat, and that regional habit sticks in ordinary conversation.
Drawn from City of Powell River, Powell River Peak, Sunshine Coast Tourism - Powell River, qathet 365.
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
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 Powell River 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.
City newsletters flag Blackberry Festival beside Community Forest grant updates and aquatic centre roof funding.
Blackberry Festival street party shuts Marine Avenue, with Willingdon Beach hosting follow-on jam and fireworks programming.
Tourism pages list Historic Townsite District, Powell Lake, and the Sunshine Coast Trail among Powell River highlights.
On OpenStats City Score for 2026, Powell River ranks 2 of 125.
Westview's main commercial street and the Blackberry Festival party corridor. When it closes for August night markets, the whole qathet calendar tilts toward downtown.
Waterfront gathering place for Blackberry Jam sets and festival fireworks. It is the soft landing after Marine Avenue crowds.
Named tourism district kept distinct from the Westview ferry core. Worth a separate stroll if you want the older street rhythm.
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