Alberta
OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Airdrie.
City Score #25 (2022) → #8 (2025)
Airdrie sits at City Score rank #8 with a standing of 65%, 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 17 places versus 2022 (#25 → #8).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #45 of 172 (2025); indoor radon rank #27 of 117 at 135 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #83 of 172 (11.15 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 Airdrie.
Published residential mill-rate context for Airdrie.
Track and turf fields beside Genesis Place and East Lake, used for soccer showcases and hometown sport days. It is where athletic park talk
Airdrie's primary municipal recreation centre and the shorthand for ice-time news. When the rinks reopen or shift programming, the whole
Local papers still brand coverage as Airdrie & Area and Rocky View News, which is how residents hear their town paired with neighbouring
Where Airdrie sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Airdrie reads as an Airdrie & Area town in the Rocky View news belt: big enough for its own rinks, parks, and Main Street rebuild, close enough that Crossfield and Irricana stories still travel on the same local desk. Nose Creek cuts through the core, and Nose Creek Regional Park keeps pathways and family amenities right against Downtown Airdrie. Yankee Valley Boulevard is the arterial people use to orient the south side, including Chinook Winds Regional Park and its spray park.
Recreation is the civic conversation starter. Genesis Place is the primary recreation centre, and City View headlines treat Genesis Place rinks as shorthand for whether the town's winter calendar is humming. Beside it, Ed Eggerer Athletic Park puts track and turf next to East Lake Regional Park pathways that thread toward Thorburn and Meadowbrook. Ron Ebbesen Twin Arena adds twin-ice capacity, while Bert Church LIVE Theatre and the Town and Country Centre cover the performing-arts and booking side of town life.
September brings airdrieFEST into Downtown Airdrie, and the Airdrie Ale Trail maps craft stops with a nod to 948, the city's original telephone prefix. Main Street keeps changing under staged reconstruction notices, which is a fair portrait of a corridor community still pouring concrete into its centre. Fletcher Regional Park and East Lake round out a park system that feels planned for growing neighbourhoods, not borrowed from somewhere else. The OpenStats City Score puts Airdrie at rank 104 of 125 in 2026, but the hometown tell is simpler: ice time, creek paths, and Rocky View neighbours.
Drawn from City of Airdrie, Airdrie City View, City of Airdrie, Rocky View Weekly.
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
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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
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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). 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
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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
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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
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 Airdrie in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
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.
Local papers still brand coverage as Airdrie & Area and Rocky View News, which is how residents hear their town paired with neighbouring communities.
Chinook Winds Regional Park sits south of Yankee Valley Boulevard, a directional cue every south-side driver already knows.
The Airdrie Ale Trail notes 948 as Airdrie's original telephone prefix, a small hometown detail still living on a municipal craft map.
Main Street reconstruction arrives in staged milling and lane realignment notices, so downtown change is a civic project, not a rumour.
The downtown-core park on Nose Creek, with pathways and family amenities close to civic life. It is the green corridor you notice when you are already in the centre of town.
Airdrie's primary municipal recreation centre and the shorthand for ice-time news. When the rinks reopen or shift programming, the whole town hears about it.
Track and turf fields beside Genesis Place and East Lake, used for soccer showcases and hometown sport days. It is where athletic park talk and rink talk meet.
The city-run performing arts venue with a Presented Series and rentals. Downtown culture has a proper stage address, not just a festival weekend.
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