Alberta · Civic arena
Lacombe drinking water hardness is 215 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#249 of 343
45% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Lacombe 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 Lacombe water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Drumheller · vs StrathmoreHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Lacombe 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.
Lacombe sits at City Score rank #249 with a standing of 45%, 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 53 places versus 2022 (#196 → #249).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #156 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.
Against the national corpus, Lacombe carries a City Score standing of 45% (rank #249 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 4 points below the Alberta peer average across 51 ranked cities. Within Alberta, Lacombe ranks #39 of 51 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is seismic hazard (standing 68%, rank #234 of 343, raw score 0.036). The weakest observed pillar is drinking-water hardness (standing 25%, rank #87 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 215 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Lacombe. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #249 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #87
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Rank #222
Rank #156
Rank #234
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Lacombe 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 Lacombe.
Home of the Kinsmen Aquatic Centre, arena drop-ins, and the outdoor splash park. Anchor recreation address for swim lessons and Lacombe
Banquet and conference venue for up to 500, set in Lest We Forget Park beside historic downtown. Used for weddings, grads, reunions,
The Kinsmen Aquatic Centre inside Gary Moe Auto Group Sportsplex has a 25-metre six-lane main pool plus a teaching/leisure pool.
Where Lacombe sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Lacombe sits on the Highway 2 corridor where Highway 12 crosses, close enough that bridge work on the interchange makes the municipal news desk. The Lacombe Express covers police, chamber awards, and Best Of Lacombe Readers Choice votes that keep Main Street shops in the conversation. Downtown alleys carry murals of streetscapes from 1890 to 1910, and the Lacombe Memorial Centre faces Lest We Forget Park against restored Edwardian buildings when weddings and galas fill the rooms.
Recreation clusters at the Gary Moe Auto Group Sportsplex. The Kinsmen Aquatic Centre runs a 25-metre six-lane pool, leisure tank, and hot tub, with an outdoor splash park beside it and Lacombe Dolphins meets that clear the schedule. ME Global Athletic Park and Michener Recreation Park handle diamonds and pitches the city pitches as some of the finest playing fields in central Alberta. Len Thompson Fish Pond and the Vesta Energy Fish Fetch Off-Leash Dog Park round out the park list people actually name.
Trail days usually mean Cranna Lake Trail fitness stations or the natural paths out to Elizabeth Lake from the Cranna Lake Trailhead, with Barnett Lake Nature Trail on the municipal map set. Alberta Day puts free programming on the calendar, including a WIBIT public swim at the Kinsmen Aquatic Centre. Lacombe Police Service files and chamber business awards keep the Express busy between recreation seasons. The Lacombe Research and Development Centre remains a standing local file when agriculture research jobs and land use come up. Hometown colour here is lakes, murals, and the Sportsplex.
Drawn from City of Lacombe - Trails, City of Lacombe - Lacombe Memorial Centre, City of Lacombe - Kinsmen Aquatic Centre, City of Lacombe - Sports Fields, Lacombe Express.
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 Lacombe 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
The Globe and Mail
2023 data partnership with Environics Analytics ranking 439 Canadian communities on ten livability categories.
Single edition · 2023
Only one published edition places Lacombe in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Livability
MoneySense
Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
5 editions · 2013–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Cranna Lake Trail includes outdoor fitness stations supported through the Bill Nielsen Trail Society.
The Kinsmen Aquatic Centre inside Gary Moe Auto Group Sportsplex has a 25-metre six-lane main pool plus a teaching/leisure pool.
Lacombe lists 16 ball diamonds and three soccer pitches for league and tournament play.
Downtown murals depict local streetscapes from the 1890 to 1910 period along historic alleys.
Paved fitness loop with stations at Cranna Lake, plus natural trails from the Cranna Lake Trailhead out to Elizabeth Lake interpretative signs. A standard Lacombe after-work walk.
Banquet and conference venue for up to 500, set in Lest We Forget Park beside historic downtown. Used for weddings, grads, reunions, and civic events.
Home of the Kinsmen Aquatic Centre, arena drop-ins, and the outdoor splash park. Anchor recreation address for swim lessons and Lacombe Dolphins meets.
Athletic park with tennis courts near Lacombe Composite High School, part of the city's tournament-ready sports-field network.
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