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Winnipeg

Winnipeg drinking water hardness is 81 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Winnipeg

Census_metropolitan_area835k pop

47XP

#225

#225 of 343

47% City Score XP

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6/8 pillars on the board

47%#225

Decade trail

Winnipeg packs 6 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

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Winnipeg drinking water

Direct municipal reading

Hardness, pH, and lead from municipal reports on the OpenStats water atlas.

Hardness: 81 mg/L; moderately hard
pH: 7.9
Lead: 0.7 μg/L

Full Winnipeg water quality report →City Score rankings Compare cities · vs Stonewall · vs ThompsonHardness guide

Watershed to tap · system map

How Winnipeg's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Winnipeg from municipal and provincial water records. Open the animated map for the full watershed-to-tap diagram — no nested topic navigation here.

Open full system map →Full Winnipeg water atlas page

Water atlas · animated system map

City Score rankings →Compare cities →vs Stonewall →vs Thompson →

Local numbers for Winnipeg

Permits, tax, internet, radon, hazards, drinking water, and sports rankings where a CHL hometown applies.

Permits TaxBrowse Internet Radon Hazards Water SportsBrowse

How Winnipeg scores

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Winnipeg sits at City Score rank #225 with a standing of 47%, from 6 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 15 places versus 2022 (#210 → #225).

Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #5 of 327 at 257 Bq/m³ survey mean. Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

On the latest OpenStats pass, Winnipeg carries a City Score standing of 47% (rank #225 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 5 points below the Manitoba peer average across 13 ranked cities. Within Manitoba, Winnipeg ranks #10 of 13 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is seismic hazard (standing 98%, rank #337 of 343, raw score 0.015). The weakest observed pillar is indoor radon (standing 2%, rank #5 of 327). Crime severity uses the Statistics Canada police-service CSI mapped to Winnipeg, Manitoba (table 35100026), not a regional proxy.

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 81 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Winnipeg. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#225

Arena rank (of 343)

47%

City Score

Pillars observed

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vs 2022

#210 → #225

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #225 of 343

City Score

6/8 pillars · main XP bar

47%#225

Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #328

51%

Building permits

No placement

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Internet

Rank #157

55%

Radon

Rank #5

Hazards

Rank #337

98%

Property tax

No placement

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Winnipeg pillar standing

Eight equal-weight City Score pillars, 2025 panel year.

Source: OpenStats composite / study editions

City Score standing trend

Standing percentage by panel year (higher is better).

Years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

Source: OpenStats composite timeseries

Achievements

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In the news

Data desk

October 3, 2026 · Indoor radon
Indoor radon study: Regina and Moose Jaw at 301.7 Bq/m³ (238 cities)
The 2025 highest-radon study lists 238 communities. Regina, Moose Jaw, and Weyburn tie at 301.7 Bq/m³. Winnipeg-area communities cluster at 256.7 Bq/m³.
October 3, 2026 · Drinking water
Water hardness pillar: Calgary 279 mg/L score; atlas rows remain seed
The 2025 hardness study ranks Calgary, Belleville-Quinte West, and Yorkton at 279 on the pillar scale. Municipal water atlas pages still carry seed data_source labels, so those pages stay noindex until verified readings land.

Hometown notes

City profile

August 3, 2026
August 2026: property tax in Winnipeg
Published residential mill-rate context for Winnipeg.
July 27, 2026
Assiniboine Park Zoo, Winnipeg · July 2026
West-end park zoo that anchors family Saturdays when downtown feels crowded. It is the Assiniboine name Winnipeggers actually point
July 20, 2026
Exchange District, Winnipeg · July 2026
Heritage warehouse blocks where brick, galleries, and offices share the same grid. Locals use it as a walkable counterweight to Portage
July 13, 2026
Winnipeg: Portage and Main sits on the City homepage as downtown shorthand · July 2026
Portage and Main sits on the City homepage as downtown shorthand Winnipeggers still use for orientation.
July 6, 2026
July 2026: building permits in Winnipeg
Where Winnipeg sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.

Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.

Winnipeg in brief

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 2025, Winnipeg sits at rank 309 of 343. 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 over time

City Score from 2016–2025 across eight open-data pillars. Individual study placements are listed in the panels below.

OpenStats City Score

Rankings for Winnipeg

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 Broadband Download Speeds

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Cities ranked by household-weighted maximum advertised download (Mbps) from ISED National Broadband Data hex ISP rows, with hex-to-city assignment by population-weighted gravity. The headline 2025 score is the dwelling-weighted mean of per-hex technology ceilings (fibre and cable at 1 Gbps, DSL lower). Household-weighted 50/10 availability (%) is stored on atlas rows as avail_5010_pct. Earlier panel years backcast along a national speed curve with city-specific fiber and availability paths.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#157

Latest · 2025 · of 343

Score 571.6

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