Alberta · Civic arena
Airdrie drinking water hardness is 106 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#139 of 343
52% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Airdrie packs 5 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. This page uses a regional estimate — open the water atlas for method notes.
Full Airdrie water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Didsbury · vs St. PaulHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Airdrie from municipal and provincial water records. Open the animated map for the full watershed-to-tap diagram — no nested topic navigation here.
Permits, tax, internet, radon, hazards, drinking water, and sports rankings where a CHL hometown applies.
Airdrie sits at City Score rank #139 with a standing of 52%, from 5 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 #1 of 10 (2024); indoor radon rank #61 of 327 at 135 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.
In the 2025 City Score edition, Airdrie carries a City Score standing of 52% (rank #139 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 3 points above the Alberta peer average across 51 ranked cities. Within Alberta, Airdrie ranks #18 of 51 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is building permit value (standing 100%, rank #1 of 10, raw score 7362.5). The weakest observed pillar is indoor radon (standing 19%, rank #61 of 327).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 106 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Airdrie. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #139 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #291
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Airdrie 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
· Internet
OpenStats ranks connectivity using dwelling-weighted maximum advertised speeds from ISED hex ISP rows. Toronto averages 950 Mbps weighted max with 86.9% household-weighted 50/10 coverage after the gravity hex fix.
Published residential mill-rate context for Airdrie.
Track and turf fields beside Genesis Place and East Lake, used for soccer showcases and hometown sport days. It is where athletic park talk
Airdrie's primary municipal recreation centre and the shorthand for ice-time news. When the rinks reopen or shift programming, the whole
Local papers still brand coverage as Airdrie & Area and Rocky View News, which is how residents hear their town paired with neighbouring
Where Airdrie sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Airdrie reads as an Airdrie & Area town in the Rocky View news belt: big enough for its own rinks, parks, and Main Street rebuild, close enough that Crossfield and Irricana stories still travel on the same local desk. Nose Creek cuts through the core, and Nose Creek Regional Park keeps pathways and family amenities right against Downtown Airdrie. Yankee Valley Boulevard is the arterial people use to orient the south side, including Chinook Winds Regional Park and its spray park.
Recreation is the civic conversation starter. Genesis Place is the primary recreation centre, and City View headlines treat Genesis Place rinks as shorthand for whether the town's winter calendar is humming. Beside it, Ed Eggerer Athletic Park puts track and turf next to East Lake Regional Park pathways that thread toward Thorburn and Meadowbrook. Ron Ebbesen Twin Arena adds twin-ice capacity, while Bert Church LIVE Theatre and the Town and Country Centre cover the performing-arts and booking side of town life.
September brings airdrieFEST into Downtown Airdrie, and the Airdrie Ale Trail maps craft stops with a nod to 948, the city's original telephone prefix. Main Street keeps changing under staged reconstruction notices, which is a fair portrait of a corridor community still pouring concrete into its centre. Fletcher Regional Park and East Lake round out a park system that feels planned for growing neighbourhoods, not borrowed from somewhere else. The OpenStats City Score puts Airdrie at rank 202 of 343 in 2026, but the hometown tell is simpler: ice time, creek paths, and Rocky View neighbours.
Drawn from City of Airdrie, Airdrie City View, City of Airdrie, Rocky View Weekly.
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.
Safety · OpenStats
Statistics Canada does not publish a police-service Crime Severity Index that OpenStats can match to Airdrie without copying a province, CMA, or another city. The safety pillar scores at median standing (50%) on City Score, the same rule used for other missing pillars.
Connectivity · OpenStats
OpenStats
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
Construction · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities ranked by calendar-year municipal building permit value per resident (total permit dollars divided by the OpenStats population field). Permit totals use verified municipality-grain rows (Statistics Canada CSD or equivalent municipal open data). Population uses Statistics Canada Census 2021 (tables 98-10-0006-01, 98-10-0002-01). Cities without a verified municipal permit series are unplaced; City Score uses median standing on the construction pillar.
Single edition · 2024
Only one published edition places Airdrie in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
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). Crime severity uses StatCan police-service CSI only (Tables 35-10-0026-01 and 35-10-0063-01); cities without a police-service match take median standing on the safety pillar. Growth uses StatCan CSD estimates; construction uses verified municipal building-permit value per resident (population field on each city record, 2021 Census vintage); 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
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
Hazards · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by NRCan peak ground acceleration (higher = stronger shaking hazard). Rank 1 is highest PGA. The seismic model is multi-year; values are carried across the City Score panel and flagged as static until NRCan publishes a new generation.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Livability
MoneySense
Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
2 editions · 2017–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Local papers still brand coverage as Airdrie & Area and Rocky View News, which is how residents hear their town paired with neighbouring communities.
Chinook Winds Regional Park sits south of Yankee Valley Boulevard, a directional cue every south-side driver already knows.
The Airdrie Ale Trail notes 948 as Airdrie's original telephone prefix, a small hometown detail still living on a municipal craft map.
Main Street reconstruction arrives in staged milling and lane realignment notices, so downtown change is a civic project, not a rumour.
The downtown-core park on Nose Creek, with pathways and family amenities close to civic life. It is the green corridor you notice when you are already in the centre of town.
Airdrie's primary municipal recreation centre and the shorthand for ice-time news. When the rinks reopen or shift programming, the whole town hears about it.
Track and turf fields beside Genesis Place and East Lake, used for soccer showcases and hometown sport days. It is where athletic park talk and rink talk meet.
The city-run performing arts venue with a Presented Series and rentals. Downtown culture has a proper stage address, not just a festival weekend.
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