Yukon · Civic arena
Whitehorse drinking water hardness is 149 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#277 of 343
44% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Whitehorse 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.
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Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Whitehorse 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.
Whitehorse sits at City Score rank #277 with a standing of 44%, 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 26 places versus 2022 (#251 → #277).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #20 of 327 at 182 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, Whitehorse carries a City Score standing of 44% (rank #277 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. Within Yukon, Whitehorse ranks #1 of 1 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is population growth (standing 68%, rank #112 of 343, +1.7% annual growth). The weakest observed pillar is indoor radon (standing 6%, rank #20 of 327).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 149 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Whitehorse. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #277 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #198
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Whitehorse 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 Whitehorse.
Town-to-river path that links toward the fish ladder and onward canyon walking when you want the long loop.
Primary indoor recreation address for swim, track, fitness, and community sport across Whitehorse and nearby communities.
Travel Yukon records Kwanlin as a First Nations name meaning running water through canyon for the Miles Canyon area.
Where Whitehorse sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Whitehorse lives with the Yukon River in ordinary directions: downtown, then along the Millennium Trail toward the fish ladder, then farther to Miles Canyon where basalt walls pinch turquoise water under an 85-foot suspension bridge. Travel Yukon still notes the First Nations place-name Kwanlin for running water through canyon, a reminder that the gorge was a corridor long before it became a weekend hike with bear spray in the pack. Alaska Highway access and Chadburn Lake Road keep the canyon reachable when seasons change the parking map and the south-side road closes for winter.
Indoor recreation concentrates at the Canada Games Centre, the multi-use facility residents shorten to CGC, with the Whitehorse Lions Aquatic Centre for swim days and companion city venues at Takhini Arena and Mount McIntyre Recreation Centre. Drop-in swim, track, and fitness classes fill the dark months; summer evenings migrate to Fridays in the Park at places like Morely & Peel Park and Logan Park. Engage Whitehorse and FireSmart sit on the municipal homepage the way engagement and wildfire readiness do in a northern capital: practical icons beside transit and waste links, not tourism garnish.
Yukon News headlines lately braid land-use and mining talk into Official Community Plan arguments, beside traffic-calming updates from city hall. That mix is Whitehorse: canyon light on the Yukon River, a games-centre calendar for the long winter, and civic debate that treats the OCP as living paperwork rather than abstract planning jargon. The hometown profile stays outdoors-first, river-named, and unmistakably northern in every season.
Drawn from City of Whitehorse, City of Whitehorse, Travel Yukon, Yukon 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 Whitehorse 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
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
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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
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.
6 editions · 2020–2025
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.
2 editions · 2015–2017
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Miles Canyon sits minutes from downtown, with Travel Yukon describing a basalt gorge and suspension bridge reached via Alaska Highway or Chadburn Lake Road.
Travel Yukon records Kwanlin as a First Nations name meaning running water through canyon for the Miles Canyon area.
The Canada Games Centre is the city's flagship multi-use sport and fitness facility, including the Whitehorse Lions Aquatic Centre.
Fridays in the Park rotates through named parks such as Morely & Peel Park and Logan Park on the city events calendar.
Basalt canyon on the Yukon River with a suspension bridge and trail network, the classic short escape from downtown Whitehorse.
Primary indoor recreation address for swim, track, fitness, and community sport across Whitehorse and nearby communities.
Town-to-river path that links toward the fish ladder and onward canyon walking when you want the long loop.
City recreation facility grouped with the Canada Games Centre and Takhini Arena for bookings and winter programs.
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