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Strathmore drinking water hardness is 165 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#88 of 343
56% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Strathmore 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 Strathmore from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Strathmore.
Strathmore sits at City Score rank #88 with a standing of 56%, 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 #113 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #299 of 343 at 65 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #242 of 343 (8.55 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 Strathmore.
Year-round indoor sports under one roof: gymnasiums, walking track, batting cage, and multi-use turf. Winter wind is less of an excuse here.
A full-service six-lane, 25-metre pool with diving board and climbing wall. Lane swim and family splash share the same municipal address.
The Western Irrigation District still operates the CPR-built irrigation system after the railway turned it over to users in 1944.
Where Strathmore sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Strathmore still introduces itself as the Town That Moved, and the municipal heritage page means it literally. When irrigation work shifted the settlement four miles north in 1905, the CPR siding became the new centre, and the nickname stuck longer than the rails. The railway left a working legacy anyway: the Western Irrigation District still runs the system the CPR turned over to users in 1944, so farm talk and town talk share the same water language.
Today the visitor guide and recreation listings read like a Wheatland County hub with Calgary within commuting distance. The Strathmore Stampede anchors summer, Alberta Culture Days and Indigenous events fill the civic calendar, and Siksika Day is proclaimed on the town heritage pages each September. Kinsmen Park sits inside a pathway network the parks department counts at more than 50 kilometres, with splash park, skating, disc golf, and court sports for year-round outdoor use.
Indoor life has named buildings too. The Aquatic Centre runs a six-lane 25-metre pool; the Family Centre Arena carries Olympic and NHL ice; the Strathmore Motor Products Sports Centre keeps gyms, an indoor track, and turf going when the prairie wind is rude. The Strathmore Times covers council files from fire-truck budgets to The Prairies neighbourhood proposal, which is how growth sounds on a locally owned weekly. The OpenStats City Score ranks Strathmore 101 of 125 in 2026, but the hometown portrait is irrigation ditches, Stampede week, and a town that remembers packing up for a better siding.
Drawn from Town of Strathmore, Town of Strathmore, Town of Strathmore, Strathmore Times.
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
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.
Strathmore's municipal nickname, the Town That Moved, refers to relocating the hamlet four miles north to an irrigation siding in 1905.
The Western Irrigation District still operates the CPR-built irrigation system after the railway turned it over to users in 1944.
Town parks pages credit Strathmore with more than 50 kilometres of pathways around hubs like Kinsmen Park.
The Strathmore Times is locally owned and treats Wheatland County villages as part of the same paper route as town council.
The outdoor recreation hub inside Strathmore's pathway network, with splash park, courts, and seasonal skating. It is where trail talk and weekend tournament talk meet.
A full-service six-lane, 25-metre pool with diving board and climbing wall. Lane swim and family splash share the same municipal address.
Year-round indoor sports under one roof: gymnasiums, walking track, batting cage, and multi-use turf. Winter wind is less of an excuse here.
Municipal heritage pages point visitors to On This Spot stops and Western District Historical Society material so the Town That Moved story has sidewalk coordinates.
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