Saskatchewan · Civic arena
Yorkton drinking water hardness is 279 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#172 of 343
51% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Yorkton 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.
Full Yorkton water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs North Battleford · vs SaskatoonHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Yorkton from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Yorkton.
Yorkton sits at City Score rank #172 with a standing of 51%, 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 75 places versus 2022 (#247 → #172).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #26 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #68 of 343 at 229 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #267 of 343 (8.20 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #172 of 343
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Achievements
Published residential mill-rate context for Yorkton.
Yorkton branch telling pioneer and agricultural stories, host site for the Threshermen's Show each August.
Downtown arts address for the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery, arts council, and film festival offices.
Tourism Yorkton describes the Yorkton Film Festival as the longest-running film festival in North America, focused on Canadian shorts.
Where Yorkton sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Yorkton greets visitors with Where Good Things Happen on the city homepage and doubles down with Yorkton Happens Here across Gallagher Centre pages. That slogan is earned geographically: the Gallagher Centre on Broadway Street West is eastern Saskatchewan's bundled address for arena nights, curling, the Access Communications Water Park, Flexihall sport, conventions, and exhibition grounds. If a regional event needs a roof, locals usually mean the Gallagher before they finish the sentence, whether the night is hockey, a trade show, or a wedding package tour.
Culture has a second downtown coordinate at the Godfrey Dean Cultural Centre, home to the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery plus offices for the Yorkton Arts Council and the Yorkton Film Festival. Tourism copy still claims the film festival as the longest-running in North America, a spring week of Canadian short films that puts Yorkton on a national arts calendar without asking residents to pretend they live in a larger metro. September brings Sunflower, a huge unjuried show and sale at the Gallagher; June brings the Painted Hand PowWow; August revives working heritage at the Western Development Museum's Threshermen's Show.
Anne Portnuff Theatre at Yorkton Regional High School covers live performance nights when the arts council's concert series is in season. Civic notices can be as ordinary as a water-survey scam advisory or as formal as State of the City on the municipal calendar. The hometown voice is event-venue practical: Gallagher for the big room, Godfrey Dean for the arts block, and a parkland city that expects the calendar to do real work year-round.
Drawn from City of Yorkton, City of Yorkton, Tourism Yorkton.
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
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 Yorkton 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
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Gallagher Centre pages repeat the municipal slogan Yorkton Happens Here for sports, rentals, and swimming.
Tourism Yorkton describes the Yorkton Film Festival as the longest-running film festival in North America, focused on Canadian shorts.
Sunflower at the Gallagher Centre is billed as Saskatchewan's largest unjuried arts and crafts show and sale.
The Godfrey Dean Art Gallery is presented as the only professionally operated public gallery within about 200 km of Yorkton.
Eastern Saskatchewan's combined arena, water park, curling, Flexihall, and convention campus on Broadway Street West.
Downtown arts address for the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery, arts council, and film festival offices.
Yorkton branch telling pioneer and agricultural stories, host site for the Threshermen's Show each August.
Live performance venue at Yorkton Regional High School used for arts council concert nights.
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