Saskatchewan · Civic arena
Estevan drinking water hardness is 143 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#283 of 343
43% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Estevan 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 Estevan water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Yorkton · vs WeyburnHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Estevan 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.
Estevan sits at City Score rank #283 with a standing of 43%, 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. Rising 48 places versus 2022 (#331 → #283).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #84 of 327 at 119 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, Estevan carries a City Score standing of 43% (rank #283 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 4 points below the Saskatchewan peer average across 16 ranked cities. Within Saskatchewan, Estevan ranks #10 of 16 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is drinking-water hardness (standing 60%, rank #206 of 343, raw score 143). The weakest observed pillar is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 20%, rank #274 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 143 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Estevan. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #283 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #206
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Rank #274
Rank #84
Rank #193
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Estevan 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 Estevan.
Estevan's arena and event venue in municipal quick-access menus. When someone says they are going to Affinity Place, the whole town knows
Named dam and reservoir landmark on the Souris River side of town. Municipal calendars treat it as geography people already recognize.
Highways 39, 47, and 18 are the named access routes, with Hwy 39 hosting Saskatchewan's only 24-hour Port of Entry from the United States.
Where Estevan sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Estevan introduces itself with geography before slogans. The City of Estevan calls it the closest prairie-provinces city to the US border, and the getting-here copy names highways 39, 47, and 18 without romance. Hwy 39 carries Saskatchewan's only 24-hour Port of Entry from the United States, which is how residents explain why plates change so often at Affinity Place events. The Souris River runs through that orientation, with Boundary Dam as the named reservoir landmark on municipal calendars and visitor text that still points people to water.
Recreation talk is concrete. Affinity Place is the arena and booking shorthand in quick-access menus. Estevan Leisure Centre covers pools and fitness when the prairie wind makes outdoor plans negotiable. The Estevan Bruins keep SJHL hockey on the recreation listings, so junior hockey nights are a civic habit rather than a borrowed Regina story. Souris Valley Theatre and Woodlawn Regional Park show up on the same municipal event board when summer wants a different stage than ice.
CBC Saskatchewan covers the wider provincial desk when Estevan files need a broader microphone, but day-to-day life still sounds local: river, dam, highways, and rink. OpenStats has no composite City Score rank for Estevan in the current datapack. The hometown portrait does not need one. Nobody needs a borrowed nickname when the border and the Souris River already do the introducing. It is a Souris River border city that points to Boundary Dam, Affinity Place, the Leisure Centre, and the Bruins when someone asks what evenings look like after the Port of Entry traffic thins.
Drawn from City of Estevan, City of Estevan Recreation, CBC Saskatchewan.
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 Estevan 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
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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.
Municipal visitor copy calls Estevan the closest city to the US border among the prairie provinces.
Highways 39, 47, and 18 are the named access routes, with Hwy 39 hosting Saskatchewan's only 24-hour Port of Entry from the United States.
Estevan Bruins SJHL hockey is listed on the city's recreation pages beside other local clubs.
Boundary Dam appears on municipal event and visitor framing as a named local landmark.
Estevan's arena and event venue in municipal quick-access menus. When someone says they are going to Affinity Place, the whole town knows the address type.
Primary municipal recreation facility for pools and fitness. It pairs with Affinity Place as the indoor civic circuit.
Named dam and reservoir landmark on the Souris River side of town. Municipal calendars treat it as geography people already recognize.
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