Saskatchewan
OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Moose Jaw.
Moose Jaw sits at City Score rank #166 with a standing of 36%, from 8 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. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #114 of 172 (2025); indoor radon rank #2 of 117 at 302 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #112 of 172 (9.61 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
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Documented pro, junior, university, and high-school teams tied to Moose Jaw.
Published residential mill-rate context for Moose Jaw.
Outdoor stage for Concerts in the Park. Summer music has a fixed civic address here.
Guided trolley tour through local landmarks and stories. Tourism treats boarding as a standard first move.
Mac the Moose is billed as the selfie stop and local legend moose statue on the tourism home.
Where Moose Jaw sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Moose Jaw leans into Canada's Most Notorious City as Tourism Moose Jaw's standing slogan, delivered with a wink rather than a warning label. The Moose Jaw Trolley is the rolling version of that pitch: sit down, hear the stories, and roll past landmarks without pretending the prairie town is dull. Mac the Moose waits for the mandatory selfie, because a visit without the giant moose statue is considered unfinished business on the tourism home and unfinished teasing among friends who already took the photo years ago.
Underground, Tunnels of Moose Jaw sells the subterranean attraction that keeps the notorious brand concrete for guests who want a ticketed story. Above ground in summer, Crescent Park Amphitheatre hosts Concerts in the Park, which is how locals date warm evenings when the trolley is parked and the lawn fills with chairs. The Tourism Moose Jaw visitor centre at 450 Diefenbaker Drive is the practical door for maps and tickets when you arrive by highway and need a human, not a hashtag.
The OpenStats City Score puts Moose Jaw at rank 125 of 125 in 2026, last in the composite table. The hometown voice does not sound defeated about it. It sounds busy with trolley tours, tunnel tickets, Mac the Moose photos, and Crescent Park concerts that keep the slogan working. Visitors leave with tunnel ticket stubs and a Mac the Moose photo already texted home. Notorious, here, is a product line and a civic joke that still fills sidewalks and still sells a second night in town. Trolley rides and tunnel tickets remain the visitor rituals locals expect to hear about.
Drawn from Tourism Moose Jaw, Tunnels of Moose Jaw, Tourism Moose Jaw Visitors Centre.
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.
Connectivity · OpenStats
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Cities ranked by estimated best advertised download (Mbps). Anchored to the current ISED National Broadband Data vintage, then backcast along a national speed curve with city-specific fiber-arrival and 50/10 availability paths so relative ranks can change over the decade. Not a claim of audited historical hex maps for every year.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Construction · OpenStats
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Cities ranked by calendar-year building permit value. Direct rows sum Statistics Canada Table 34-10-0292-01. Cities without a direct reading use population × provincial per-capita permit intensity (estimated), so every seed city has a year-varying construction signal.
10 editions · 2016–2025
sports · OpenStats
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Cities with a Canadian Hockey League club ranked by regular-season points percentage (best club wins if several). Rank 1 = highest points %. Built from CHL standings and Wikipedia season pages. Cities without a CHL club are omitted.
8 editions · 2017–2025
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). Growth and CSI use StatCan annual tables; permits, 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
Safety · OpenStats
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Communities ranked by Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index (Table 35-10-0026-01). Rank 1 is highest CSI (worse). Values are CMA where a metro match exists, otherwise provincial CSI. Hometown pages label the grain.
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
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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
sports · OpenStats
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Cities ranked by weighted count of documented local teams (pro, junior, university, high-school hubs). Rank 1 = deepest documented sports footprint among covered seed cities. Not a claim about on-field success. See sports methodology for weights and gaps.
Single edition · 2025
Only one published edition places Moose Jaw in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Growth · OpenStats
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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
Property tax · OpenStats
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Municipalities ranked by residential mill rate. Rank 1 is the highest rate. Published municipal years are used when available; gaps are interpolated or follow the provincial median path so the tax pillar moves year to year for every city.
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.
Tourism Moose Jaw's slogan is Canada's Most Notorious City, framed as quirky heritage storytelling rather than crime panic.
Mac the Moose is billed as the selfie stop and local legend moose statue on the tourism home.
Concerts in the Park land at Crescent Park Amphitheatre on the tourism events calendar.
The Tourism Moose Jaw visitor centre lists 450 Diefenbaker Drive as its street address.
Underground tour attraction that makes the notorious slogan tangible. It is the subterranean half of the visitor circuit.
Guided trolley tour through local landmarks and stories. Tourism treats boarding as a standard first move.
Outdoor stage for Concerts in the Park. Summer music has a fixed civic address here.
Giant moose statue and required selfie landmark. Tourism copy treats the photo as part of a complete visit.
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