Alberta · Civic arena
Grande Prairie drinking water hardness is 102 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#148 of 343
51% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Grande Prairie 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 Grande Prairie water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Red Deer · vs St. PaulHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Grande Prairie 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.
Grande Prairie sits at City Score rank #148 with a standing of 51%, 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 136 places versus 2022 (#284 → #148).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #145 of 327 at 105 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.
Among Canadian cities on the hub, Grande Prairie carries a City Score standing of 51% (rank #148 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 2 points above the Alberta peer average across 51 ranked cities. Within Alberta, Grande Prairie ranks #21 of 51 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is drinking-water hardness (standing 87%, rank #299 of 343, raw score 102). The weakest observed pillar is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 23%, rank #265 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 102 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Grande Prairie. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #148 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #299
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Rank #265
Rank #145
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Grande Prairie 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 Grande Prairie.
Major aquatics and fitness complex for the months when Muskoseepi Pond is frozen or the airshow calendar is quiet.
Large south-side park with camping, golf, and ball fields, including Fossil Energy Ball Park for the energy-named diamond crowd.
Headlines and city branding default to GP, while regional health and northern Alberta stories still situate the place as Peace Country.
Where Grande Prairie sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Grande Prairie shortens to GP in almost every local headline, and the wider map still calls this Peace Country. Resource markets shape how the city pitches itself: oil and gas, forestry, and agriculture sit in the investor language, while energy-sector naming shows up on venues like Bonnetts Energy Centre and Fossil Energy Ball Park at South Bear Creek Park. Service updates name corridors such as Resources Road, the kind of concrete detail that tells you GP runs on trucks and schedules as much as prairie sky.
Recreation is the other civic brand. Muskoseepi Park and Muskoseepi Pond sit at the centre of summer and winter listings, while South Bear Creek Park stretches the south side with camping, golf, and ball fields. Eastlink Centre covers aquatics and fitness; the Community Knowledge Campus ties school and recreation together; and Crystal Lake Bike Skills Park gives riders a named destination. Summer programming under Experience Grande Prairie, Chariot Fest processions, and the GP Airshow keep the calendar loud enough that visitors learn the abbreviation fast.
History stays close to the ground here. Reverend Forbes Homestead hosts quiet summer programming, and the South Peace Regional Archives keep regional memory next to the arena complex. Locals talk South Peace when they mean the institutional orbit around GP, and Peace Country when the story stretches into northern Alberta health and travel. Tawâw/Welcome is how the city frames Indigenous relations on its own pages. If you know Muskoseepi, Bonnetts, and Resources Road, you already have the working map.
Drawn from City of Grande Prairie, City of Grande Prairie, City of Grande Prairie, Daily Herald Tribune.
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 Grande Prairie 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
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.
4 editions · 2014–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Headlines and city branding default to GP, while regional health and northern Alberta stories still situate the place as Peace Country.
Municipal economic copy names oil and gas, forestry, and agriculture as the resource-market foundations under investor talk.
Energy sponsorship naming is local shorthand: Bonnetts Energy Centre for arena nights, Fossil Energy Ball Park for diamond days at South Bear Creek.
The GP Airshow turns the regional airport into a Peace Country aviation weekend that the Daily Herald Tribune covers as hometown spectacle.
Central city park with pond, pavilion, and disc-golf amenities, the default answer when someone in GP says they are heading to the park.
Large south-side park with camping, golf, and ball fields, including Fossil Energy Ball Park for the energy-named diamond crowd.
Major aquatics and fitness complex for the months when Muskoseepi Pond is frozen or the airshow calendar is quiet.
Historic site used for summer afternoon-tea programming, a quieter South Peace stop beside the louder festival calendar.
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