Yukon · Civic arena
Whitehorse drinking water hardness is 124 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
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#231 of 343
46% City Score XP
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Whitehorse 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 Whitehorse from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Whitehorse.
Whitehorse sits at City Score rank #231 with a standing of 46%, 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 12 places versus 2022 (#219 → #231).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #202 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #142 of 343 at 174 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #140 of 343 (10.61 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 Whitehorse.
Town-to-river path that links toward the fish ladder and onward canyon walking when you want the long loop.
Primary indoor recreation address for swim, track, fitness, and community sport across Whitehorse and nearby communities.
Travel Yukon records Kwanlin as a First Nations name meaning running water through canyon for the Miles Canyon area.
Where Whitehorse sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Whitehorse lives with the Yukon River in ordinary directions: downtown, then along the Millennium Trail toward the fish ladder, then farther to Miles Canyon where basalt walls pinch turquoise water under an 85-foot suspension bridge. Travel Yukon still notes the First Nations place-name Kwanlin for running water through canyon, a reminder that the gorge was a corridor long before it became a weekend hike with bear spray in the pack. Alaska Highway access and Chadburn Lake Road keep the canyon reachable when seasons change the parking map and the south-side road closes for winter.
Indoor recreation concentrates at the Canada Games Centre, the multi-use facility residents shorten to CGC, with the Whitehorse Lions Aquatic Centre for swim days and companion city venues at Takhini Arena and Mount McIntyre Recreation Centre. Drop-in swim, track, and fitness classes fill the dark months; summer evenings migrate to Fridays in the Park at places like Morely & Peel Park and Logan Park. Engage Whitehorse and FireSmart sit on the municipal homepage the way engagement and wildfire readiness do in a northern capital: practical icons beside transit and waste links, not tourism garnish.
Yukon News headlines lately braid land-use and mining talk into Official Community Plan arguments, beside traffic-calming updates from city hall. That mix is Whitehorse: canyon light on the Yukon River, a games-centre calendar for the long winter, and civic debate that treats the OCP as living paperwork rather than abstract planning jargon. The hometown profile stays outdoors-first, river-named, and unmistakably northern in every season.
Drawn from City of Whitehorse, City of Whitehorse, Travel Yukon, Yukon News.
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.
6 editions · 2020–2025
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.
2 editions · 2015–2017
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Miles Canyon sits minutes from downtown, with Travel Yukon describing a basalt gorge and suspension bridge reached via Alaska Highway or Chadburn Lake Road.
Travel Yukon records Kwanlin as a First Nations name meaning running water through canyon for the Miles Canyon area.
The Canada Games Centre is the city's flagship multi-use sport and fitness facility, including the Whitehorse Lions Aquatic Centre.
Fridays in the Park rotates through named parks such as Morely & Peel Park and Logan Park on the city events calendar.
Basalt canyon on the Yukon River with a suspension bridge and trail network, the classic short escape from downtown Whitehorse.
Primary indoor recreation address for swim, track, fitness, and community sport across Whitehorse and nearby communities.
Town-to-river path that links toward the fish ladder and onward canyon walking when you want the long loop.
City recreation facility grouped with the Canada Games Centre and Takhini Arena for bookings and winter programs.
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