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Chilliwack

Chilliwack drinking water hardness is 97 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Chilliwack

Census_metropolitan_area114k pop
50XP
#162

#162 of 343

50% City Score XP

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6/8 pillars on the board

50%#162

Decade trail

Chilliwack 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.

Chilliwack drinking water

Regional estimate from nearest municipal sample

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.

Hardness
97 mg/L
moderately hard
pH
7
Lead
0.1 μg/L

Full Chilliwack water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Kimberley · vs Williams LakeHardness guide

Watershed to tap · system map

How Chilliwack's water works

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

Local numbers for Chilliwack

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

How Chilliwack scores

Rising+37

Chilliwack sits at City Score rank #162 with a standing of 50%, 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. Rising 37 places versus 2022 (#199 → #162).

Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #280 of 327 at 58 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.

Against the national corpus, Chilliwack carries a City Score standing of 50% (rank #162 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 3 points above the British Columbia peer average across 58 ranked cities. Within British Columbia, Chilliwack ranks #21 of 58 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is drinking-water hardness (standing 89%, rank #305 of 343, raw score 97). The weakest observed pillar is seismic hazard (standing 14%, rank #48 of 343). Crime severity uses the Statistics Canada police-service CSI mapped to Chilliwack, British Columbia, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, municipal (table 35100063), not a regional proxy.

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 97 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Chilliwack. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#162
Arena rank (of 343)
50%
City Score
6
Pillars observed
Rising+37
vs 2022
#199 → #162

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #162 of 343

City Score

6/8 pillars · main XP bar

50%#162
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #305

83%
Building permits

No placement

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Internet

Rank #229

34%
Radon

Rank #280

86%
Hazards

Rank #48

14%
Property tax

No placement

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Chilliwack pillar standing

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

TaxPermitsNetRadonWaterHazardsGrowthCrime

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

Rising +37Groundwater supply

Hometown notes

City profile

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

Chilliwack in brief

Chilliwack reads as a Fraser Valley city with neighbourhood names that still matter on the municipal parks map. Sardis-Vedder is a corridor label, not a tourist invention, and Yarrow, Rosedale, and Fairfield keep their own park signs. The Progress desk covers housing targets, wildfire smoke, and What's Happening Chilliwack listings in the same week, which is a fair portrait of a place that juggles growth talk with valley weather.

Trails and water set the civic mood. Vedder Park and the Vedder Rotary Trail are everyday recreation until flood-mitigation closures show up on the city site. Fraser River Flood Protection sits in the public-safety menu for a reason. Great Blue Heron Nature Reserve, Chilliwack Community Forest, and Island 22 give the nature-side counterweight to arena nights at Landing Sports Centre and big-room events at Chilliwack Heritage Park. Cultus Lake stays in the orbit through the Park Board listing and community sports notes, even when the beach day is a short drive rather than a city block.

Culture has a proper address at the Chilliwack Cultural Centre, and the Chilliwack Fair still anchors the late-summer calendar on the Progress community pages. Eastern Hillsides and Promontory show up in the parks area taxonomy beside Ryder Lake, which is how locals already slice the map. The OpenStats City Score puts Chilliwack at rank 100 of 343 in 2026, but the hometown tell is simpler: which side of Sardis-Vedder you mean, whether the Rotary Trail is open, and whether Fair week still feels like the whole valley showed up.

Drawn from City of Chilliwack, Chilliwack Progress, City of Chilliwack.

City Score over time

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

0%25%50%75%100%2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Rankings for Chilliwack

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

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

#229
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 249.3

Composite · OpenStats

OpenStats City Score

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

#162
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.505

Safety · OpenStats

OpenStats Crime Severity Index

OpenStats

Communities ranked by Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index at police-service grain (Tables 35-10-0026-01 and 35-10-0063-01 for British Columbia). Rank 1 is highest CSI (worse). Cities without a police-service match are not listed; the safety pillar scores at median standing on City Score. Hometown pages name the police service and reference year.

CSI from Chilliwack, British Columbia, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, municipal (2025, Table 35-10-0063-01).

10 editions · 2016–2025

#17
Latest · 2025 · of 102
Score 134.37

Water · OpenStats

OpenStats Drinking Water Hardness

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

#305
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 97

Health · OpenStats

OpenStats Highest Indoor Radon

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

#280
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 58.3

Growth · OpenStats

OpenStats Population Growth

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

#100
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.01809059771334845

Hazards · OpenStats

OpenStats Seismic Hazard (PGA)

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

#48
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.167

Livability

Maclean's Best Communities

Maclean's

Successor-style municipal livability ranking published by Maclean's for 2019 and 2021 (no 2020 edition).

Single edition · 2021

#90
Published · 2021 · of 415

Only one published edition places Chilliwack in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Worth knowing in Chilliwack

Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.

  • Municipal parks pages still group Sardis-Vedder as one area label, which matches how residents give directions across that corridor.

    City of Chilliwack

  • Vedder Rotary Trail closures for flood mitigation work land on the city homepage like ordinary public works, not rare drama.

    City of Chilliwack

  • Fraser River Flood Protection has its own public-safety nav slot, a hometown signal that dykes and river levels are standing civic business.

    City of Chilliwack

  • Yarrow, Rosedale, and Fairfield each keep named parks on the city list, which is why those community names refuse to blur into one suburb.

    City of Chilliwack

Places to see

Vedder Park

A Sardis-Vedder park address tied to the wider Vedder trail network. When flood work hits the Rotary Trail, this is the geography people mean.

Chilliwack Cultural Centre

The city's main arts venue for season launches and local performance. Progress coverage treats it as a standing cultural address.

Chilliwack Heritage Park

The big municipal events ground for fairs and large gatherings. Fair week and exhibition calendars still orbit this site.

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