Manitoba · Civic arena
Steinbach drinking water hardness is 171 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#119 of 343
53% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Steinbach 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 Steinbach water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Morden · vs BrandonHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Steinbach 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.
Steinbach sits at City Score rank #119 with a standing of 53%, 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. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #4 of 327 at 257 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, Steinbach carries a City Score standing of 53% (rank #119 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 1 points above the Manitoba peer average across 13 ranked cities. Within Manitoba, Steinbach ranks #6 of 13 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is seismic hazard (standing 97%, rank #334 of 343, raw score 0.015). The weakest observed pillar is indoor radon (standing 1%, rank #4 of 327).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 171 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Steinbach. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #119 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #164
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Rank #334
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Steinbach 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
· Internet
Canada and Manitoba announced September 8 that Valley Fiber will connect more than 10,000 northern and rural homes. Thompson posts broadband rank #317 at 90.1 Mbps; construction pillar is unplaced without a 0292 CMA/CA map.
Published residential mill-rate context for Steinbach.
Forty-acre living-history museum with pioneer street, working windmill, Livery Barn meals, and Pioneer Days on the August long weekend.
Heritage Village kitchen serving Mennonite meals without requiring a full museum ticket if you are only there to eat.
Strong Roots, Real Growth is the City of Steinbach homepage tagline, not a visitor-bureau invention.
Where Steinbach sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Steinbach's municipal homepage leads with Strong Roots, Real Growth, and the street sense matches: a Southeast Manitoba service centre that still treats Mennonite Heritage Village as the cultural landmark visitors ask for by name. The Village spreads across forty acres with a working windmill, pioneer street, and the Livery Barn Restaurant, and August long weekend means Pioneer Days demonstrations rather than a generic fairground loop. City notices still point to 225 Reimer Avenue for taxes and elections, while summer Movie in the Park nights land at A.D. Penner Park with lawn chairs and a late start.
The Carillon keeps the desk local, covering the RM of Hanover beside town, Hanover Ag Fair memory pieces, MCC Thrift Store community notes, and sports chatter around the Pistons and Nighthawks. Compost Saturdays at Woodlawn School and Stonybrook Middle School are the kind of small municipal habit that marks a place where yard work and city services share the same calendar. Plautdietsch heritage programming at the Village sits beside a broader Southeast Manitoba audience the museum says it serves on purpose.
Fall on the Farm extends the Village season past the heat, and civic election prep for October 2026 already shows up on city pages. OpenStats also lists Steinbach among its higher indoor radon rankings, a data aside to the louder Heritage Village and A.D. Penner Park identity. What a local would claim is specific: Reimer Avenue city hall, Penner Park movie nights, Pioneer Days at the windmill grounds, and a Carillon beat that still says Hanover in the same breath as Steinbach.
Drawn from City of Steinbach, Mennonite Heritage Village, Mennonite Heritage Village, The Carillon.
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 Steinbach 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
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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
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
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.
Strong Roots, Real Growth is the City of Steinbach homepage tagline, not a visitor-bureau invention.
Mennonite Heritage Village describes itself as serving diverse communities across Southeast Manitoba from a forty-acre living-history site with a working windmill.
Movie in the Park is a free municipal night at A.D. Penner Park, lawn chairs encouraged.
OpenStats ranks Steinbach fifth among communities with the highest indoor radon scores in its 2026 atlas set.
Forty-acre living-history museum with pioneer street, working windmill, Livery Barn meals, and Pioneer Days on the August long weekend.
Municipal recreation grounds that host Movie in the Park and the summer day-camp energy the city advertises to families.
Heritage Village kitchen serving Mennonite meals without requiring a full museum ticket if you are only there to eat.
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