British Columbia · Civic arena
Prince George drinking water hardness is 141 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#272 of 343
42% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Prince George 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 George from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Prince George.
Prince George sits at City Score rank #272 with a standing of 42%, 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 #258 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #266 of 343 at 91 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #57 of 343 (12.36 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #272 of 343
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Rank #232
Rank #258
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Rank #266
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Rank #57
Achievements
Published residential mill-rate context for Prince George.
Premier riverside park on a former Lheidli village site, with pavilion, bandshell, and river views. Treat the cemetery with respect
Downtown arts stop that shows up regularly on the Citizen arts desk. A good counterweight to trail and river days.
Lheidli T'enneh Memorial Park was renamed from Fort George Park in 2015 and holds Exploration Place plus the Little Prince train.
Where Prince George sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Prince George starts at the rivers. The Fraser and Nechako meet on Lheidli T'enneh territory, and city pages spell out the meaning: where the two rivers flow together. Lheidli T'enneh Memorial Park, renamed from Fort George Park in 2015, sits on a former village site with a cemetery overlooking the Fraser. Exploration Place, the Little Prince mini-train, and the Kiwanis Bandshell Bowl share that ground with Heritage River Trail links toward Hudson's Bay Wetland. The pavilion marks a City and Lheidli partnership at the confluence that locals still point to on Canada Day walks.
Civic life still waves at Mr. PG while UNBC, Two Rivers Gallery, and Theatre Northwest fill the winter calendar. Canfor Leisure Pool and Music in the Park keep summer program language practical, with yoga and Zumba in the park sharing the same notice board as concert nights. Carrie Jane Gray Park modernization shows up in city notices the same week election packages hit the Citizen. College Heights reads as a named local district, not a generic suburb label handed down from somewhere larger.
Wildfire season turns Prince George into an evacuee information hub, with homepage alerts and Citizen coverage tracking who is arriving from southern fires. That northern-capital reflex sits beside confluence park days and Lheidli partnership language at City Hall. Locals orient by the two rivers first, then by whether the pool is open and which band is playing under the bandshell on a Thursday. Downtown planning files and election coverage keep the Citizen local government desk busy between park concerts.
Drawn from City of Prince George - Lheidli T'enneh Memorial Park, City of Prince George - Lheidli T'enneh First Nation, Prince George Citizen, City of Prince George.
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 Prince George 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 Prince George 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 Indigenous relations pages translate Lheidli as where the two rivers flow together and T'enneh as the People.
Lheidli T'enneh Memorial Park was renamed from Fort George Park in 2015 and holds Exploration Place plus the Little Prince train.
The accessible playground tributes include Mr. PG alongside the Nechako and Fraser rivers.
Music in the Park and Canfor Leisure Pool maintenance windows are routine summer notices on the city homepage.
Premier riverside park on a former Lheidli village site, with pavilion, bandshell, and river views. Treat the cemetery with respect and stay on paved paths.
Museum and science centre inside the memorial park. It is the indoor half of a confluence-day outing.
Downtown arts stop that shows up regularly on the Citizen arts desk. A good counterweight to trail and river days.
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