Alberta · Civic arena
Sylvan Lake drinking water hardness is 177 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#64 of 343
57% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Sylvan Lake 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 Sylvan Lake water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Wetaskiwin · vs BonnyvilleHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Sylvan Lake 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.
Sylvan Lake sits at City Score rank #64 with a standing of 57%, 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 34 places versus 2022 (#98 → #64).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #163 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.
On the latest OpenStats pass, Sylvan Lake carries a City Score standing of 57% (rank #64 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 7 points above the Alberta peer average across 51 ranked cities. Within Alberta, Sylvan Lake ranks #8 of 51 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is population growth (standing 80%, rank #71 of 343, +2.2% annual growth). The weakest observed pillar is drinking-water hardness (standing 45%, rank #154 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 177 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Sylvan Lake. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #64 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #154
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Sylvan Lake 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 Sylvan Lake.
Twin arenas, curling, indoor track, play space, and the Diamond Valley Den in one complex. Off-season community life has a clear address.
Memorial Trail sports park with splash park, diamonds, campground, and Gulls Stadium. Construction still comes and goes as the long-term
Municipal highlights place Sylvan Lake about a twenty-minute drive west of Red Deer, the orientation locals give visitors without a map app.
Where Sylvan Lake sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Sylvan Lake is a lakeside town that refuses to be only a July postcard. The municipal about page calls residents Sylvan Lakers and lists polar bear dips, ice fishing, and lake skating beside paddleboards and beach volleyball. Homepage branding says Brilliant All Year, which matches a place that sells summer visitors hard while still running a full winter calendar. Town highlights put the community about twenty minutes west of Red Deer and count hundreds of thousands of summer visitors, so parking rules and lakefront etiquette are civic issues, not side notes.
The shore is a named map, not a vague beach. Centennial Park opens onto Lakeshore Drive with beach access; Rotary Lighthouse and Lakefront Parks hold the pier and waterfront rules; tents along the lakefront are restricted and canopy zones are posted. Inland, Pogadl Park on Memorial Trail is the big recreation build: Co-Operators Play Zone splash park, ball diamonds, municipal campground, and Sylvan Lake Gulls Stadium for the hometown ball club.
When the wind comes off the water, the NexSource Centre takes the handoff. Twin arenas, a five-sheet curling rink, indoor track, Whitecap Resources Indoor Play Space, and the Diamond Valley Den keep hockey, bonspiels, and local plates under one roof, with Sylvan Star Cheese and Snake Lake Brewing on the vendor list. Tourism, professional services, manufacturing, seniors support, and value-added agriculture show up in the town's own sector list, which is a fair portrait of a lake economy that still works after Labour Day. OpenStats has no City Score rank for Sylvan Lake in the current datapack, so the hometown tell stays local: Lakeshore Drive, Gulls nights at Pogadl, and a NexSource wristband after the beach closes.
Drawn from Town of Sylvan Lake, Town of Sylvan Lake, Town of Sylvan Lake, Town of Sylvan Lake, Sylvan Lake News.
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 Sylvan Lake 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.
Town copy uses Sylvan Lakers for residents and lists winter lake uses such as polar bear dips, ice fishing, and skating alongside summer water sports.
Municipal highlights place Sylvan Lake about a twenty-minute drive west of Red Deer, the orientation locals give visitors without a map app.
Sylvan Lake Gulls Stadium at Pogadl Park is built, owned, and operated by the Sylvan Lake Gulls, so ballpark pride has a specific operator.
Lakefront rules ban tents along Lighthouse Park, Lakefront Park, Centennial Park, and the Pier, which is how busy summer weekends stay walkable.
Shorefront green space on Lakeshore Drive with beach access and playground. It is the easy answer when someone asks where the lake meets town.
Memorial Trail sports park with splash park, diamonds, campground, and Gulls Stadium. Construction still comes and goes as the long-term build continues.
Twin arenas, curling, indoor track, play space, and the Diamond Valley Den in one complex. Off-season community life has a clear address.
The waterfront park cluster around the lighthouse and pier, with posted rules for dogs, tents, and beach access. Summer crowd management starts here.
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