Saskatchewan · Civic arena
Swift Current drinking water hardness is 238 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#294 of 343
40% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Swift Current 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.
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Source, treatment, and distribution for Swift Current from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Swift Current.
Swift Current sits at City Score rank #294 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. Rising 15 places versus 2022 (#309 → #294).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #240 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #330 of 343 at 38 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #206 of 343 (9.38 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 #294 of 343
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Achievements
Published residential mill-rate context for Swift Current.
Regional care anchor named alongside emergency services in municipal community framing.
Downtown Saturday market from June through September, a summer habit on the city's own about page.
The Chinook Pathway follows Swift Current Creek for walking and riding through the city's park network.
Where Swift Current sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Swift Current is the major population centre for southwest Saskatchewan, a plain line the city repeats because the map makes it true. Trans-Canada Highway traffic turns the community into a practical stop as much as a hometown, with downtown Market Square on summer Saturdays and retail gravity at Swift Current Mall and Wheatland Mall. Economic development pages call it the Transportation Hub of Southwest Saskatchewan, pointing at Highway 4, the CPR mainline, and industrial land that sits close to those corridors for manufacturers serving agriculture and energy.
Daily recreation follows Swift Current Creek along the Chinook Pathway, a multi-use route the about page pairs with two 18-hole golf courses and an indoor aquatic centre. Cypress Regional Hospital and Great Plains College anchor regional care and training; Chinook School Division and Holy Trinity Roman Catholic School Division cover the school side. The Southwest Newcomer Welcome Centre on Central Avenue North makes immigration part of ordinary downtown service, not a side program, and concert nights keep filling the calendar between festival peaks.
Frontier Days on the July 1 long weekend remains the civic exhale: Canada Day Parade, kiddie parade, midway, rodeo, and live acts that pull the southwest into town. Agriculture and energy language show up in business-development copy, including the Swift Current Research and Development Centre's wheat-innovation claim and southwest helium opportunity talk. The hometown feel is quiet creek-path miles after supper, highway-stop practicality, and a Frontier Days weekend that still sets the summer clock for farms and town blocks alike.
Drawn from City of Swift Current, Swift Current Economic Development, City of Swift Current.
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.
3 editions · 2014–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Municipal about copy frames Swift Current as the major population centre for southwest Saskatchewan and a Trans-Canada visitor stop.
The Chinook Pathway follows Swift Current Creek for walking and riding through the city's park network.
Frontier Days on the July 1 long weekend bundles parade, midway, rodeo, and live acts into the southwest's signature civic weekend.
Economic development materials brand the city the Transportation Hub of Southwest Saskatchewan for highway and rail access.
Creek-side multi-use path that is the default outdoor mileage for residents between errands and park stops.
Downtown Saturday market from June through September, a summer habit on the city's own about page.
Regional care anchor named alongside emergency services in municipal community framing.
Downtown gateway on Central Avenue North for immigrants and refugees settling into southwest Saskatchewan.
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