Alberta · Civic arena
Strathmore drinking water hardness is 165 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#255 of 343
45% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Strathmore 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 Strathmore water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Drumheller · vs InnisfailHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Strathmore 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.
Strathmore sits at City Score rank #255 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 40 places versus 2022 (#215 → #255).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #67 of 327 at 135 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, Strathmore carries a City Score standing of 45% (rank #255 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 5 points below the Alberta peer average across 51 ranked cities. Within Alberta, Strathmore ranks #41 of 51 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is population growth (standing 69%, rank #109 of 343, +1.7% annual growth). The weakest observed pillar is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 20%, rank #275 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 165 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Strathmore. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #255 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #174
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Rank #275
Rank #67
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Strathmore 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 Strathmore.
Year-round indoor sports under one roof: gymnasiums, walking track, batting cage, and multi-use turf. Winter wind is less of an excuse here.
A full-service six-lane, 25-metre pool with diving board and climbing wall. Lane swim and family splash share the same municipal address.
The Western Irrigation District still operates the CPR-built irrigation system after the railway turned it over to users in 1944.
Where Strathmore sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Strathmore still introduces itself as the Town That Moved, and the municipal heritage page means it literally. When irrigation work shifted the settlement four miles north in 1905, the CPR siding became the new centre, and the nickname stuck longer than the rails. The railway left a working legacy anyway: the Western Irrigation District still runs the system the CPR turned over to users in 1944, so farm talk and town talk share the same water language.
Today the visitor guide and recreation listings read like a Wheatland County hub with Calgary within commuting distance. The Strathmore Stampede anchors summer, Alberta Culture Days and Indigenous events fill the civic calendar, and Siksika Day is proclaimed on the town heritage pages each September. Kinsmen Park sits inside a pathway network the parks department counts at more than 50 kilometres, with splash park, skating, disc golf, and court sports for year-round outdoor use.
Indoor life has named buildings too. The Aquatic Centre runs a six-lane 25-metre pool; the Family Centre Arena carries Olympic and NHL ice; the Strathmore Motor Products Sports Centre keeps gyms, an indoor track, and turf going when the prairie wind is rude. The Strathmore Times covers council files from fire-truck budgets to The Prairies neighbourhood proposal, which is how growth sounds on a locally owned weekly. The OpenStats City Score ranks Strathmore 66 of 343 in 2026, but the hometown portrait is irrigation ditches, Stampede week, and a town that remembers packing up for a better siding.
Drawn from Town of Strathmore, Town of Strathmore, Town of Strathmore, Strathmore Times.
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 Strathmore 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.
Strathmore's municipal nickname, the Town That Moved, refers to relocating the hamlet four miles north to an irrigation siding in 1905.
The Western Irrigation District still operates the CPR-built irrigation system after the railway turned it over to users in 1944.
Town parks pages credit Strathmore with more than 50 kilometres of pathways around hubs like Kinsmen Park.
The Strathmore Times is locally owned and treats Wheatland County villages as part of the same paper route as town council.
The outdoor recreation hub inside Strathmore's pathway network, with splash park, courts, and seasonal skating. It is where trail talk and weekend tournament talk meet.
A full-service six-lane, 25-metre pool with diving board and climbing wall. Lane swim and family splash share the same municipal address.
Year-round indoor sports under one roof: gymnasiums, walking track, batting cage, and multi-use turf. Winter wind is less of an excuse here.
Municipal heritage pages point visitors to On This Spot stops and Western District Historical Society material so the Town That Moved story has sidewalk coordinates.
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