British Columbia · Civic arena
Prince Rupert drinking water hardness is 152 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#25 of 343
63% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Prince Rupert 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 Prince Rupert water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Revelstoke · vs ParksvilleHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Prince Rupert from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Prince Rupert.
Prince Rupert sits at City Score rank #25 with a standing of 63%, 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 #70 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #241 of 343 at 102 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #342 of 343 (6.83 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 #25 of 343
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Achievements
Published residential mill-rate context for Prince Rupert.
Waterfront district with artist spaces such as the Ice House Gallery. It is the strollable face of harbour-town Rupert.
Working deep-water harbour managed with PRPA terminals including Fairview. Cruise days and container calls set the civic rhythm.
City pages describe Prince Rupert harbour as among the world's deepest natural harbours and an old Indigenous trade intersection.
Where Prince Rupert sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Prince Rupert calls itself the City of Rainbows for a reason that needs no brochure: rain, mist, and the Great Bear Rainforest light that follows. The city sits on Kaien Island in Ts'msyen territory, with municipal copy placing Prince Rupert harbour as an old trade crossroads and one of the world's deepest natural harbours. Locals shorten it to Rupert without losing the weather joke, and Visit Prince Rupert opens with Kaien Island before downtown talk so newcomers learn the island geography first.
The Prince Rupert Port Authority keeps Fairview containers, bulk cargo, and cruise calls on the daily board. City notices braid that port economy with Port Edward neighbours and occasional 2nd Avenue Bridge closures that scramble local routes for a day. Cow Bay holds galleries like the Ice House, while the Museum of Northern British Columbia and Kwinitsa Railway Museum carry North Coast history indoors when the sky opens up again and the sidewalks shine.
Visit Prince Rupert frames fishing, wildlife, and Skeena-linked Ts'msyen culture beside Night Bazaar Market evenings. The Northern View covers housing prices and north-coast policy in the same week PRPA posts harbour arrivals. This is a working harbour town that measures pride in sailings, rainfall resilience, and whether Cow Bay still feels like the living room after a wet week. Ask a local what matters and the port and the rain arrive in the same sentence. Cruise days put extra foot traffic through Cow Bay, then the rain returns and the harbour keeps working anyway.
Drawn from City of Prince Rupert, Prince Rupert Port Authority, Visit Prince Rupert, The Northern View.
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 Prince Rupert 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.
Municipal welcome copy titles Prince Rupert the City of Rainbows and ties the nickname to local rain and Great Bear Rainforest landscapes.
City pages describe Prince Rupert harbour as among the world's deepest natural harbours and an old Indigenous trade intersection.
Visit Prince Rupert opens with Kaien Island and Ts'msyen territory language linked to the Skeena River.
PRPA's harbour board lists Fairview container berths beside cruise and bulk traffic as routine port business.
Waterfront district with artist spaces such as the Ice House Gallery. It is the strollable face of harbour-town Rupert.
Main indoor stop for North Coast history and culture when the rain settles in. Pair it with Kwinitsa Railway Museum for a transport-side thread.
Working deep-water harbour managed with PRPA terminals including Fairview. Cruise days and container calls set the civic rhythm.
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