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Salmon Arm drinking water hardness is 103 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
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#293 of 343
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Salmon Arm 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 Salmon Arm from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Salmon Arm.
Salmon Arm sits at City Score rank #293 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. Dropping 98 places versus 2022 (#195 → #293).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #261 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #42 of 343 at 253 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #229 of 343 (8.88 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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Published residential mill-rate context for Salmon Arm.
Wharf, boat launch, gazebo, and bayfront lawns with Wednesday concert nights in summer. It is the city's clearest outdoor living room.
East-side heritage park on Highway 97B with trails, historic buildings, and museum programs. A full afternoon when you want Shuswap history
Marine Peace Park's freshwater wharf runs 440 feet with a dock system on Salmon Arm Bay.
Where Salmon Arm sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Salmon Arm introduces itself from the water. Marine Peace Park puts a 440-foot freshwater wharf and dock system on Salmon Arm Bay, with picnic lawns, a gazebo, boat launch access, and summer Wednesdays on the Wharf concerts that fill the calendar from June into August. The Raven Trail follows the bay for about four kilometres toward the Raven Subdivision, a favourite for walkers, cyclists, and birdwatchers who want shoreline time without leaving town. Visitor services even set up at the Wharf Info Hub when the season is busy.
Heritage work is unusually visible for a Shuswap city this size. Plaques mark the CPR Station, Old Courthouse, McGuire Lake, Marine Park, the fairgrounds, Mt. Ida Cemetery, and City Hall grounds, and an On This Spot walking tour layers then-and-now photos onto the same streets. The Secwépemc Landmarks Project adds trailhead posts and Coyote Pillar-style sculptures so lake stories sit beside settler buildings. East on Highway 97B, R.J. Haney Heritage Village spreads across forty acres with the 1910 Haney Home, trails, and a museum season that locals treat as a day out as much as a visitor stop.
Municipal pages open by naming Secwépemc traditional territory, and summer bulletins still talk Stage 2 water restrictions when the lake season peaks. On OpenStats City Score for 2026, Salmon Arm sits at rank 109 of 125. People here still point first to the wharf, the bay trail, and the Shuswap shoreline. Summer waterfront parking rules and trail maps keep Marine Peace Park practical as well as scenic, which is how a lake town actually works.
Drawn from City of Salmon Arm - Marine Peace Park, City of Salmon Arm - Heritage, R.J. Haney Heritage Village & Museum.
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).
2 editions · 2019–2021
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.
Marine Peace Park's freshwater wharf runs 440 feet with a dock system on Salmon Arm Bay.
Wednesdays on the Wharf brings summer concerts to the park with the Shuswap Arts Council from June through August.
R.J. Haney Heritage Village covers about 40 acres with more than twenty buildings, including the 1910 Haney Home.
Nine heritage plaques mark sites from the CPR Station and Old Courthouse to Marine Park and Mt. Ida Cemetery.
Wharf, boat launch, gazebo, and bayfront lawns with Wednesday concert nights in summer. It is the city's clearest outdoor living room.
Scenic 4 km shoreline path for walking, running, cycling, and birdwatching along Salmon Arm Bay. Locals use it as everyday waterfront.
East-side heritage park on Highway 97B with trails, historic buildings, and museum programs. A full afternoon when you want Shuswap history outdoors.
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