Alberta · Civic arena
Camrose drinking water hardness is 232 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#200 of 343
48% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Camrose 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.
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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.
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Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Camrose 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.
Camrose sits at City Score rank #200 with a standing of 48%, 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. Dropping 28 places versus 2022 (#172 → #200).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #152 of 327 at 104 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, Camrose carries a City Score standing of 48% (rank #200 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 1 points below the Alberta peer average across 51 ranked cities. Within Alberta, Camrose ranks #30 of 51 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is seismic hazard (standing 85%, rank #292 of 343, raw score 0.028). The weakest observed pillar is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 17%, rank #284 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 232 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Camrose. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #200 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #66
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Camrose 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
Published residential mill-rate context for Camrose.
Original 1911 CN Railway Depot in the heritage district, a short walk from downtown heritage streets.
Main family picnic park with a large playground and outdoor gym, linked by trail to Mirror Lake and Stoney Creek loops.
The Mirror Lake Loop is posted at 3 km and about 32 minutes of walking from the Bill Fowler Visitor Information Centre.
Where Camrose sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Camrose orients around Mirror Lake Park in the middle of the city. The Bill Fowler Visitor Information Centre sits beside the water, where a three-kilometre paved Mirror Lake Loop starts, and winter crews clear ice for outdoor skating. Tourism Camrose and the City both sell the Urban Park System: more than 30 kilometres of paved trails tying Mirror Lake to Jubilee Park, Stoney Creek, Cascades Pond, and the valley routes locals actually use for evening bikes and morning runs.
Heritage sits close to downtown. The Camrose Heritage Railway Station and Park keeps a 1911 CN depot in the heritage district, and the Camrose and District Centennial Museum runs a prairie-village grounds with outbuildings and a deep artifact collection. Augustana neighbourhood planning links the mature streets between downtown and the University of Alberta Augustana campus. On the arts side, Chuck MacLean Arts Centre and the Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Performing Arts Centre keep theatre and music on the civic calendar.
Tourism Camrose pitches the city as under an hour from Edmonton International Airport and as host of Big Valley Jamboree, the country festival that floods hotels and campsites each summer. The Camrose Signature Series brands foods and makers you can only find here, and the printed regional tourism guide still points visitors to Mirror Lake for a first stop. On OpenStats City Score for 2025, Camrose sits at rank 221 of 343. Day to day, the story locals tell is still Mirror Lake first, then the trail network that fans out from it.
Drawn from City of Camrose - Mirror Lake Park, City of Camrose - Trails, City of Camrose - History and Heritage, Tourism Camrose.
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 Camrose 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
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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
Composite · OpenStats
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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
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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
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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.
4 editions · 2014–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
The Mirror Lake Loop is posted at 3 km and about 32 minutes of walking from the Bill Fowler Visitor Information Centre.
Camrose's Urban Park System includes over 30 km of interconnected paved multi-use trails.
Tourism Camrose calls Big Valley Jamboree the largest country music festival in North America.
Four properties in Camrose carry Alberta Provincial Heritage Designation, including the Canadian Northern Railway Station.
Central park with playground, picnic tables, seasonal food stands, and the trailhead for lake loops and Legacy Story Markers. Winter skating on the lake is a seasonal fixture.
Main family picnic park with a large playground and outdoor gym, linked by trail to Mirror Lake and Stoney Creek loops.
Original 1911 CN Railway Depot in the heritage district, a short walk from downtown heritage streets.
Museum grounds with a prairie-village layout, outbuildings, and a large artifact collection opened for Canada's Centennial year.
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