Manitoba
OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Winkler.
City Score #96 (2022) → #73 (2025)
Winkler sits at City Score rank #73 with a standing of 52%, from 8 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 23 places versus 2022 (#96 → #73).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #152 of 172 (2025); indoor radon rank #7 of 117 at 257 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #111 of 172 (9.65 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
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Documented pro, junior, university, and high-school teams tied to Winkler.
Published residential mill-rate context for Winkler.
Year-round stage with more than sixty shows, the indoor counterpart to fairgrounds weekends.
Main and Pembina corner park with historic storyboards, cairns, gardens, and Wednesday concert nights.
Winkler Harvest Festival admission is free, staged at the fairgrounds at 1045 Grandeur Avenue.
Where Winkler sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Winkler's August calendar belongs to the Harvest Festival at the Winkler Fairgrounds on Grandeur Avenue, a free weekend of music, food, and midway energy that PembinaValleyOnline treats as a regional draw. Culture Fest rides along in the same stretch, and city pages put Concerts in the Park at Bethel Heritage Park on Wednesday nights through summer. Bethel sits at Main Street and Pembina Avenue with storyboards, cairns, and flower beds that the Horticulture Society keeps sharp. City Hall at 185 Main Street shows rotating historic displays and a foyer of more than fifty flags for residents' home countries, a quiet signal that newcomer stories are part of the civic furniture.
Recreation stacks on the Parkland: ball diamonds, soccer pitches, Winkler Aquatic Centre, courts, and an outdoor rink, with Parkland Hill hosting the Canada Day carnival. Parkview Gardens and the Discovery Nature Sanctuary off Eastview Drive give quieter corners when the fairgrounds are loud. PW Enns Centennial Concert Hall carries more than sixty shows a year, and the Winkler Arts and Culture Centre fills gallery nights between festival peaks.
Growth shows up as public hearings along corridors like Northlands Parkway Collegiate and Navigator Road, the kind of notice board that says the map is still moving. OpenStats also places Winkler among its higher indoor radon rankings, a data footnote beside Harvest Festival identity. The hometown claim is Pembina Valley plain: Grandeur Avenue fairgrounds, Bethel concerts, Parkland sports, and a Main Street hall that hangs flags without making a speech about it.
Drawn from City of Winkler, Visit Winkler, City of Winkler, PembinaValleyOnline.
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.
Connectivity · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities ranked by estimated best advertised download (Mbps). Anchored to the current ISED National Broadband Data vintage, then backcast along a national speed curve with city-specific fiber-arrival and 50/10 availability paths so relative ranks can change over the decade. Not a claim of audited historical hex maps for every year.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Construction · OpenStats
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Cities ranked by calendar-year building permit value. Direct rows sum Statistics Canada Table 34-10-0292-01. Cities without a direct reading use population × provincial per-capita permit intensity (estimated), so every seed city has a year-varying construction signal.
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). Growth and CSI use StatCan annual tables; permits, 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
Safety · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index (Table 35-10-0026-01). Rank 1 is highest CSI (worse). Values are CMA where a metro match exists, otherwise provincial CSI. Hometown pages label the grain.
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
sports · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities ranked by weighted count of documented local teams (pro, junior, university, high-school hubs). Rank 1 = deepest documented sports footprint among covered seed cities. Not a claim about on-field success. See sports methodology for weights and gaps.
Single edition · 2025
Only one published edition places Winkler in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
sports · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities with a Manitoba Junior Hockey League club in the OpenStats seed list ranked by regular-season points percentage. Rank 1 = highest points %. Source: Wikipedia MJHL season standings. Clubs in towns outside the seed list are omitted.
3 editions · 2023–2025
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
Property tax · OpenStats
OpenStats
Municipalities ranked by residential mill rate. Rank 1 is the highest rate. Published municipal years are used when available; gaps are interpolated or follow the provincial median path so the tax pillar moves year to year for every city.
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.
2 editions · 2017–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Winkler Harvest Festival admission is free, staged at the fairgrounds at 1045 Grandeur Avenue.
City Hall's foyer displays over fifty flags representing residents' home countries.
Discovery Nature Sanctuary is a thirty-two-acre urban nature space off Eastview Drive for waterfowl and songbirds.
OpenStats ranks Winkler seventh among communities with the highest indoor radon scores in its 2026 atlas set.
Grandeur Avenue grounds that host Harvest Festival each August, the loudest weekend on the local calendar.
Main and Pembina corner park with historic storyboards, cairns, gardens, and Wednesday concert nights.
Year-round stage with more than sixty shows, the indoor counterpart to fairgrounds weekends.
Big recreation cluster with diamonds, soccer, aquatic centre, courts, and the hill used for Canada Day.
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