Manitoba · Civic arena
Winnipeg drinking water hardness is 151 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#315 of 343
37% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Winnipeg 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 Winnipeg from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Winnipeg.
Winnipeg sits at City Score rank #315 with a standing of 37%, 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 #67 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #47 of 343 at 251 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #94 of 343 (11.66 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 #315 of 343
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Published residential mill-rate context for Winnipeg.
West-end park zoo that anchors family Saturdays when downtown feels crowded. It is the Assiniboine name Winnipeggers actually point
Heritage warehouse blocks where brick, galleries, and offices share the same grid. Locals use it as a walkable counterweight to Portage
Portage and Main sits on the City homepage as downtown shorthand Winnipeggers still use for orientation.
Where Winnipeg sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Winnipeggers still measure the Peg from Portage and Main outward. Downtown, that intersection is wayfinding and weather talk in one breath. A short walk puts you at The Forks Market, where the Red River frames the lunch crowd and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights keeps the skyline honest. The Exchange District holds the brick warehouse grid that locals treat as both office block and Saturday browse. Across the river, St. Boniface keeps its own heritage file, complete with a 311 counter and buildings the City keeps trying to put back to work.
Flood season is not a metaphor here. The City keeps standing drainage and flooding pages tied to the Red River, and spring talk still starts with how high the water might run. Southwest, Kenaston Boulevard is the arterial that shows up when traffic or road-safety files hit CBC Manitoba. Linden Woods owns a quieter greenspace corner of that same southwest map. Northeast, East Kildonan shortens to E.K. in Free Press headlines, while Transcona anchors the east and Kildonan Park holds a north-end park day with a municipal golf course attached.
Outside the core, Assiniboine Park Zoo, the Manitoba Museum, and FortWhyte Alive fill the family calendar the way Jets and Blue Bombers fill the sports one. Richardson International Airport remains the travel hinge whenever WestJet or passenger counts lead the news. On the OpenStats City Score for 2026, Winnipeg sits at rank 38 of 125. Rankings aside, the hometown read is a prairie capital that orients by Portage and Main, watches the Red River, and still calls itself the Peg without needing a brochure.
Drawn from City of Winnipeg, City of Winnipeg flooding, Tourism Winnipeg, Winnipeg Free Press, CBC Manitoba.
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
Housing
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Average rent for purpose-built 2-bedroom apartments (all tenants) from CMHC Rental Market Survey. Rank 1 = lowest average rent among covered CMAs.
Single edition · 2025
Only one published edition places Winnipeg in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Housing
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Purpose-built rental apartment vacancy rate from CMHC Rental Market Survey (October). Rank 1 = highest vacancy (most available rental stock among covered CMAs).
Single edition · 2025
Only one published edition places Winnipeg in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Livability
The Globe and Mail
2023 data partnership with Environics Analytics ranking 439 Canadian communities on ten livability categories.
Single edition · 2023
Only one published edition places Winnipeg in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Livability
Maclean's
Successor-style municipal livability ranking published by Maclean's for 2019 and 2021 (no 2020 edition).
Single edition · 2021
Only one published edition places Winnipeg in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Livability
MoneySense
Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
4 editions · 2014–2018
Housing
National Bank of Canada Economics and Strategy
Ranked by Mortgage Payment as a Percentage of Income (MPPI) on a representative home. Rank 1 = highest MPPI (least affordable). Free quarterly Housing Affordability Monitor tables.
2 editions · 2025–2026
Quality of life
Numbeo
Crowd-sourced composite Quality of Life Index. Historical snapshots are free on Numbeo ranking pages; OpenStats cites Canadian cities from those public pages (cite_only). Higher index scores are better; ranks are global position on the snapshot page.
3 editions · 2024–2026
Housing
RBC Economics
Ranked by RBC aggregate Housing Affordability Measure (% of median pre-tax household income for mortgage, property taxes, and utilities on a benchmark home). Rank 1 = highest ownership-cost burden (least affordable). CMA markets mapped to primary city slugs.
2 editions · 2024–2025
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Portage and Main sits on the City homepage as downtown shorthand Winnipeggers still use for orientation.
City flood service pages keep the Red River on the civic calendar whether or not the water is high that week.
Free Press local copy still shortens East Kildonan to E.K. the way other cities shorten neighbourhood names.
Tourism Winnipeg keeps The Forks Market, Exchange District, and Assiniboine Park Zoo on the same attractions map.
River-edge market and gathering place on the Tourism Winnipeg list, close enough to downtown that Winnipeggers treat it as a regular errand rather than a once-a-year outing. The Red River does the framing.
Heritage warehouse blocks where brick, galleries, and offices share the same grid. Locals use it as a walkable counterweight to Portage and Main traffic.
West-end park zoo that anchors family Saturdays when downtown feels crowded. It is the Assiniboine name Winnipeggers actually point to on the attractions list.
North-end park with a City golf course page attached. It gives East Kildonan and the wider north side a green landmark that is not downtown.
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