Manitoba · Civic arena
Thompson drinking water hardness is 110 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#260 of 343
44% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Thompson 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 Thompson from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Thompson.
Thompson sits at City Score rank #260 with a standing of 44%, 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 #48 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #162 of 343 at 160 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #300 of 343 (7.70 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 #260 of 343
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Published residential mill-rate context for Thompson.
TRCC is the indoor heart of town: two arenas, fitness, gym, walking track, and the floor that hosts Nickel Days crowds.
Local museum interpreting Thompson-region history from Mystery Lake exploration through Hub of the North service-centre identity.
Heritage North Museum records Hub of the North as the nickname for Thompson's role serving fly-in and winter-road communities across
Where Thompson sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Thompson still answers to Hub of the North when the conversation turns to Northern Manitoba services. The townsite sits on a Burntwood River meander in a northern boreal setting, with the Vale Thompson nickel operation next door: mine and concentrator running since 1961, concentrate leaving by rail. Heritage North Museum keeps the Mystery Lake exploration story and Treaty Five context on local shelves, and Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation appears in the operation's own land acknowledgement. Mining is not a museum label here; it is shift talk and festival naming.
Winter and hockey give the place its indoor geography. Thompson Regional Community Centre, the TRCC, holds C.A. Nesbitt Arena and Gordon Beard Arena, home ice for the Norman Northstars and Norman Wolves, plus a free walking track that matters when the wind is sharp. Public skates fill Gordon Beard on weekend evenings, and Nickel Days turns those arenas and grounds into the summer gathering that names the ore underfoot. Mystery Mountain Winter Park sits about twenty minutes north on Provincial Road 280, with downhill runs, the Polar Lounge after-ski stop, and groomed cross-country trails run by the Thompson Ski Club.
Municipal notices sound like any northern service town: Dominion Bay paving, TRCC track closures, councillor registration windows. What does not swap with a prairie city is the mix of Hub of the North framing, Burntwood geography, Vale nickel next door, and a Nickel Days calendar that treats mining as shared identity rather than distant industry.
Drawn from Heritage North Museum, City of Thompson, City of Thompson, Vale Base Metals.
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.
Heritage North Museum records Hub of the North as the nickname for Thompson's role serving fly-in and winter-road communities across the region.
Vale's Thompson operation describes a mine and nickel concentrator in production since 1961 beside the city in the northern boreal.
Nickel Days is named on municipal TRCC pages as a special event that fills the arenas with residents and provincial visitors.
Mystery Mountain Winter Park offers eighteen downhill runs about twenty minutes north of Thompson on Provincial Road 280.
TRCC is the indoor heart of town: two arenas, fitness, gym, walking track, and the floor that hosts Nickel Days crowds.
Ski and snowboard hill north on PR 280, with Polar Lounge after-ski talk and more than ten kilometres of groomed cross-country trail.
Local museum interpreting Thompson-region history from Mystery Lake exploration through Hub of the North service-centre identity.
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