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Regina drinking water hardness is 208 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Regina

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40XP
#320

#320 of 343

40% City Score XP

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7/8 pillars on the board

40%#320

Decade trail

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.

Regina drinking water

Direct municipal reading

Hardness, pH, and lead from municipal reports on the OpenStats water atlas.

Hardness
208 mg/L
very hard
pH
7.8
Lead
0.5 μg/L

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Watershed to tap · system map

How Regina's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Regina from municipal and provincial water records. Open the animated map for the full watershed-to-tap diagram — no nested topic navigation here.

Local numbers for Regina

Permits, tax, internet, radon, hazards, drinking water, and sports rankings where a CHL hometown applies.

Sports

Junior hockey in Regina

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Team
Regina Pats
League
WHL
Points %
79.9%

67 GP · 107 pts · Compare CHL cities

How Regina scores

Regina sits at City Score rank #320 with a standing of 40%, 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 #21 of 25 (2025); indoor radon rank #2 of 327 at 302 Bq/m³ survey mean. Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

Against the national corpus, Regina carries a City Score standing of 40% (rank #320 of 343) with 7 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 8 points below the Saskatchewan peer average across 16 ranked cities. Within Saskatchewan, Regina ranks #15 of 16 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is population growth (standing 78%, rank #76 of 343, +2.1% annual growth). The weakest observed pillar is indoor radon (standing 1%, rank #2 of 327). Crime severity uses the Statistics Canada police-service CSI mapped to Regina, Saskatchewan (table 35100026), not a regional proxy.

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 208 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Regina. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#320
Arena rank (of 343)
40%
City Score
7
Pillars observed

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #320 of 343

City Score

7/8 pillars · main XP bar

40%#320
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #103

35%
Building permits

Rank #21

20%
Internet

Rank #282

18%
Radon

Rank #2

1%
Hazards

Rank #267

78%
Property tax

No placement

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Regina pillar standing

Eight equal-weight City Score pillars, 2025 panel year.

TaxPermitsNetRadonWaterHazardsGrowthCrime

Source: OpenStats composite / study editions

City Score standing trend

Standing percentage by panel year (higher is better).

Years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

Source: OpenStats composite timeseries

Achievements

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In the news

Data desk

Hometown notes

City profile

Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.

Regina in brief

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 over time

City Score from 2016–2025 across eight open-data pillars. Individual study placements are listed in the panels below.

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Rankings for Regina

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 Broadband Download Speeds

OpenStats

Cities ranked by household-weighted maximum advertised download (Mbps) from ISED National Broadband Data hex ISP rows, with hex-to-city assignment by population-weighted gravity. The headline 2025 score is the dwelling-weighted mean of per-hex technology ceilings (fibre and cable at 1 Gbps, DSL lower). Household-weighted 50/10 availability (%) is stored on atlas rows as avail_5010_pct. Earlier panel years backcast along a national speed curve with city-specific fiber and availability paths.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#282
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 114.9

Construction · OpenStats

OpenStats Building Permit Value per Resident

OpenStats

Cities ranked by calendar-year municipal building permit value per resident (total permit dollars divided by the OpenStats population field). Permit totals use verified municipality-grain rows (Statistics Canada CSD or equivalent municipal open data). Population uses Statistics Canada Census 2021 (tables 98-10-0006-01, 98-10-0002-01). Cities without a verified municipal permit series are unplaced; City Score uses median standing on the construction pillar.

Single edition · 2025

#21
Published · 2025 · of 25
Score 2375.439877696947

Only one published edition places Regina in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Sports · OpenStats

OpenStats CHL Points Percentage

OpenStats

Canadian Hockey League (OHL, WHL, QMJHL) member cities ranked by regular-season points percentage. One CHL team maps to each OpenStats hometown slug; standings snapshot is curated from public league tables.

Single edition · 2025

#4
Published · 2025 · of 45
Score 0.799

Only one published edition places Regina in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Composite · OpenStats

OpenStats City Score

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). Crime severity uses StatCan police-service CSI only (Tables 35-10-0026-01 and 35-10-0063-01); cities without a police-service match take median standing on the safety pillar. Growth uses StatCan CSD estimates; construction uses verified municipal building-permit value per resident (population field on each city record, 2021 Census vintage); 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

#320
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.396

Safety · OpenStats

OpenStats Crime Severity Index

OpenStats

Communities ranked by Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index at police-service grain (Tables 35-10-0026-01 and 35-10-0063-01 for British Columbia). Rank 1 is highest CSI (worse). Cities without a police-service match are not listed; the safety pillar scores at median standing on City Score. Hometown pages name the police service and reference year.

CSI from Regina, Saskatchewan (2025, Table 35-10-0026-01).

10 editions · 2016–2025

#38
Latest · 2025 · of 102
Score 87.36

Water · OpenStats

OpenStats Drinking Water Hardness

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

#103
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 208

Health · OpenStats

OpenStats Highest Indoor Radon

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

#2
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 301.7

Sports · OpenStats

OpenStats Local Sports Depth

OpenStats

Hometowns with a mapped junior hockey franchise ranked by local sports depth: league tier (CHL member leagues = 1.0, MHL = 0.65) multiplied by regular-season points percentage. Surfaces cities with both a franchise and a strong standings year; not a City Score pillar input.

Single edition · 2025

#4
Published · 2025 · of 49
Score 0.799

Only one published edition places Regina in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Growth · OpenStats

OpenStats Population Growth

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

#76
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.021340364073435047

Hazards · OpenStats

OpenStats Seismic Hazard (PGA)

OpenStats

Communities ranked by NRCan peak ground acceleration (higher = stronger shaking hazard). Rank 1 is highest PGA. The seismic model is multi-year; values are carried across the City Score panel and flagged as static until NRCan publishes a new generation.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#267
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.033

Housing

CMHC Average 2-Bedroom Rent — Lowest Rent

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

#5
Published · 2025 · of 18
Score 1473

Only one published edition places Regina in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Livability

Globe and Mail Most Livable Cities

The Globe and Mail

2023 data partnership with Environics Analytics ranking 439 Canadian communities on ten livability categories.

Single edition · 2023

#4
Published · 2023 · of 439

Only one published edition places Regina in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Quality of life

Numbeo Quality of Life Index by City

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

#174
Latest · 2026 · of 304
Score 154.1

Worth knowing in Regina

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.

    City of Regina

  • Wascana Lake is split by Broad Street Bridge into a recreation-focused West Lake and a bird-sanctuary East Lake.

    Wascana Centre

  • Locals still call the 2003-04 lake revitalization the Big Dig, which added Pine Island and deepened the basin for paddling.

    Wascana Centre

  • Victoria Park remains the downtown green square with a cenotaph, a short walk from City Hall at Queen Elizabeth II Court.

    Regina Downtown

Places to see

Wascana Lake

The capital's everyday outdoor room, with promenades, overlooks, marina access, and a trail loop Reginans treat as standard weekend mileage.

Legislative Building

Landmark on the lake axis, the visual cue that this prairie city is also a provincial capital.

Victoria Park

Downtown square and cenotaph site that has hosted civic gatherings since the city's early planning maps.

Saskatchewan Science Centre

East Lake destination on the Wascana walk, paired with Candy Cane Park and the university edge for family outings.

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