Alberta · Civic arena
Spruce Grove drinking water hardness is 174 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#150 of 343
51% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Spruce Grove 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 Spruce Grove water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Grande Prairie · vs Red DeerHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Spruce Grove 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.
Spruce Grove sits at City Score rank #150 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 42 places versus 2022 (#192 → #150).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #106 of 327 at 114 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, Spruce Grove carries a City Score standing of 51% (rank #150 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 2 points above the Alberta peer average across 51 ranked cities. Within Alberta, Spruce Grove ranks #22 of 51 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is population growth (standing 98%, rank #9 of 343, +4.2% annual growth). The weakest observed pillar is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 25%, rank #258 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 174 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Spruce Grove. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #150 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #158
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Spruce Grove 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 Spruce Grove.
Spruce Grove's performing-arts house with a full touring and community-theatre season. When the brochure drops, the Tri Region has a proper
The shared Tri-Municipal aquatics, fitness, and arena campus for Spruce Grove, Stony Plain, and Parkland County. Healthy living here is
The Spruce Grove Saints play home games at Thompson Family Arena inside Heavy Metal Place, so Junior A hockey is a building address,
Where Spruce Grove sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Spruce Grove talks about itself as part of a Tri-Municipal Region, not as a lone suburb. The TransAlta Tri Leisure Centre is the shared pool-and-rink campus for Spruce Grove, Stony Plain, and Parkland County, and city calendars still advertise Tri-Municipal info nights the same way neighbours trade arena time. Inside city limits, Heavy Metal Place has become the newer civic living room: twin NHL ice including Thompson Family Arena for the Junior A Spruce Grove Saints, a Spruce Grove Public Library branch, Allied Arts Council space, and the Spruce Grove Transit Centre right outside for the Edmonton commute.
Culture and sport sit on named addresses. Horizon Stage keeps a full season of touring and Horizon Players shows, with tickets sold at Heavy Metal Place and Border Paving Athletic Centre. Fuhr Sports Park puts artificial turf, a Rotary Playscape, and a splash pad on Tri Leisure Way for tournament weekends. Municipal pages still point to more than 40 kilometres of all-weather trails stitching neighbourhoods to parks, while King Street shows up in ordinary lane-closure notices as the downtown workhorse corridor.
The Examiner desk covers Spruce Grove with Stony Plain and Parkland as one Tri-Region beat, which matches how people already move between the three. Light Up and the Canada Day Celebration mark the civic year on city event lists, and Grove Gatherings fill RecCulture evenings between them. The OpenStats City Score puts Spruce Grove at rank 86 of 343 in 2026. The hometown tell is simpler: Saints nights at Heavy Metal Place, Tri Leisure swim lessons, and a transit centre that makes west-of-Edmonton feel like a planned trip, not a guess.
Drawn from City of Spruce Grove, City of Spruce Grove, TransAlta Tri Leisure Centre, Horizon Stage, Spruce Grove Examiner.
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 Spruce Grove 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.
3 editions · 2015–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Municipal about copy orients Spruce Grove about 11 kilometres west of Edmonton, which is how locals explain the commute without a brochure.
The Spruce Grove Saints play home games at Thompson Family Arena inside Heavy Metal Place, so Junior A hockey is a building address, not a rumour.
Horizon Stage tickets are sold at Heavy Metal Place and Border Paving Athletic Centre, not at City Hall, a small logistics fact every season-ticket shopper learns once.
Fuhr Sports Park pairs tournament turf with a seasonal splash pad at the front entrance, which is how summer sport weekends feel on Tri Leisure Way.
The multi-purpose recreation and culture complex with twin ice, library, gallery, walking track, and transit hub. It is where Saints nights, Horizon Stage ticket pickup, and the commute all share a driveway.
The shared Tri-Municipal aquatics, fitness, and arena campus for Spruce Grove, Stony Plain, and Parkland County. Healthy living here is a three-municipality project.
Spruce Grove's performing-arts house with a full touring and community-theatre season. When the brochure drops, the Tri Region has a proper stage night.
Artificial turf, field house, Rotary Playscape, and splash pad on Tri Leisure Way. Tournament weekends and weekday picnic tables share the same fence line.
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