Saskatchewan · Civic arena
Regina drinking water hardness is 245 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#196 of 343
49% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
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Regina 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 Regina from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Regina.
Regina sits at City Score rank #196 with a standing of 49%, 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 106 places versus 2022 (#302 → #196).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #87 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #257 of 343 at 95 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #93 of 343 (11.68 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 Regina.
Downtown square and cenotaph site that has hosted civic gatherings since the city's early planning maps.
Landmark on the lake axis, the visual cue that this prairie city is also a provincial capital.
Wascana Lake is split by Broad Street Bridge into a recreation-focused West Lake and a bird-sanctuary East Lake.
Where Regina sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Regina is Saskatchewan's capital, and Reginans still answer to the Queen City nickname that shows up on the municipal flag story and history pages. The city's centre of gravity is Wascana Lake inside Wascana Centre, with the Legislative Building on axis, Albert Memorial Bridge underfoot, and a full lakeside loop that locals treat like a second main street. West Lake is for rowing, canoe clubs, and the marina; East Lake leans toward the Migratory Bird Sanctuary, University of Regina campus edge, Conexus Arts Centre, and the Saskatchewan Science Centre. On a bright Saturday the path around the lake carries strollers, race warm-ups, and people who simply came to watch the light hit the Legislative dome.
Downtown keeps its own civic square at Victoria Park, a short walk from Queen Elizabeth II Court on Victoria Avenue. Cathedral turns up in city engagement notices the way neighbourhoods do when traffic calming and safety zones are on the table, and Be Heard Regina is the branded inbox for opinions. Older residents still call the early-2000s lake deepening the Big Dig, complete with Pine Island and the finishing-line facility that made competitive paddling a Wascana boast. Provincial capital work and the Co-Op refinery beat share headline space with Dutch elm notices, ladybug releases, and leisure-guide launches, which is a very Regina mix of government, industry, and boulevard trees.
This is a capital oriented to a constructed lake and legislative grounds, not to a bridging river valley. The Queen City sells lake paths, Victoria Avenue errands, and a desk sense that government business and grain-country industry both belong in the same weather conversation. That lake-and-legislature framing is the hometown read that keeps Regina distinct on the prairie map.
Drawn from City of Regina, Wascana Centre, Regina Downtown, City of Regina.
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
Housing
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Average rent for purpose-built 2-bedroom apartments (all tenants) from CMHC Rental Market Survey. Rank 1 = lowest average rent among covered CMAs.
Single edition · 2025
Only one published edition places Regina in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Housing
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Purpose-built rental apartment vacancy rate from CMHC Rental Market Survey (October). Rank 1 = highest vacancy (most available rental stock among covered CMAs).
2 editions · 2024–2025
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 Regina 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
Quality of life
Numbeo
Crowd-sourced composite Quality of Life Index. Historical snapshots are free on Numbeo ranking pages; OpenStats cites Canadian cities from those public pages (cite_only). Higher index scores are better; ranks are global position on the snapshot page.
2 editions · 2025–2026
Housing
RBC Economics
Ranked by RBC aggregate Housing Affordability Measure (% of median pre-tax household income for mortgage, property taxes, and utilities on a benchmark home). Rank 1 = highest ownership-cost burden (least affordable). CMA markets mapped to primary city slugs.
2 editions · 2024–2025
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Municipal history pages tie the Queen City nickname to Queen Victoria and describe a crown symbol on the city flag.
Wascana Lake is split by Broad Street Bridge into a recreation-focused West Lake and a bird-sanctuary East Lake.
Locals still call the 2003-04 lake revitalization the Big Dig, which added Pine Island and deepened the basin for paddling.
Victoria Park remains the downtown green square with a cenotaph, a short walk from City Hall at Queen Elizabeth II Court.
The capital's everyday outdoor room, with promenades, overlooks, marina access, and a trail loop Reginans treat as standard weekend mileage.
Landmark on the lake axis, the visual cue that this prairie city is also a provincial capital.
Downtown square and cenotaph site that has hosted civic gatherings since the city's early planning maps.
East Lake destination on the Wascana walk, paired with Candy Cane Park and the university edge for family outings.
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