Saskatchewan · Civic arena
Prince Albert drinking water hardness is 265 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#223 of 343
47% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Prince Albert 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.
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Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Prince Albert from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Prince Albert.
Prince Albert sits at City Score rank #223 with a standing of 47%, 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 67 places versus 2022 (#290 → #223).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #89 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #300 of 343 at 65 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #83 of 343 (11.88 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 #223 of 343
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Achievements
Published residential mill-rate context for Prince Albert.
Outdoor aquatic destination that leads the city's summer recreation announcements.
Home ice framing for the Prince Albert Raiders and a winter landmark in local sports talk.
The Rotary Trail is a 22.6 km paved circuit used for walks, runs, and family ride events on the city calendar.
Where Prince Albert sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Prince Albert calls itself the Heart of North Central Saskatchewan, and the geography backs the slogan without needing a brochure flourish. The city climbs the sloping south bank of the North Saskatchewan River where agricultural prairie gives way to the forest belt, and the north bank shows the mixed bush that signals lake country is close. Municipal copy frames a service, retail, health, and education hub for central and northern Saskatchewan, with forestry, mining, and agriculture among the industries that still pull trucks, shoppers, and shift workers through town on ordinary weekdays.
Recreation is not an afterthought here. Little Red River Park offers 1,200 acres of boreal forest and trails for hiking, skiing, and bikes; the Rotary Trail loops 22.6 kilometres of pavement around the city for family ride mornings; and summer opens the Kinsmen Water Park plus neighbourhood spray parks. Indoor life runs through Alfred Jenkins Field House and Raiders nights at the Art Hauser Centre, where the Prince Albert Raiders keep WHL hockey on the civic calendar. Exhibition season means PAEX, parade routes, and the kind of road restrictions locals check before they leave the driveway.
Education options read like a regional campus list: University of Saskatchewan's PA presence, Saskatchewan Polytechnic, First Nations University of Canada, Gabriel Dumont Institute, and SIIT. Treaty 6 territory and a large Indigenous population are part of how the city describes itself, alongside a growing immigrant community. The hometown character is the hinge between prairie south and forest north, with Rotary Trail mornings and Raiders nights fitting in the same week without anyone treating that mix as unusual.
Drawn from City of Prince Albert, City of Prince Albert.
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
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 about pages place Prince Albert in the North Saskatchewan valley where southern prairie meets the northern forest belt.
The Rotary Trail is a 22.6 km paved circuit used for walks, runs, and family ride events on the city calendar.
Little Red River Park covers about 1,200 acres of boreal forest and trails inside the municipal recreation story.
The Prince Albert Raiders and Art Hauser Centre are named together on the city's own sports and leisure list.
Large boreal park for year-round trails, the easiest way to feel the forest side of Prince Albert without leaving city limits.
Home ice framing for the Prince Albert Raiders and a winter landmark in local sports talk.
Outdoor aquatic destination that leads the city's summer recreation announcements.
Indoor track, soccer, gym, and climbing wall space that also hosts community fairs and camps.
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