Alberta
OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Camrose.
Camrose sits at City Score rank #58 with a standing of 54%, 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. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #120 of 172 (2025); indoor radon rank #55 of 117 at 114 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #146 of 172 (7.88 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 Camrose.
Published residential mill-rate context for Camrose.
Original 1911 CN Railway Depot in the heritage district, a short walk from downtown heritage streets.
Main family picnic park with a large playground and outdoor gym, linked by trail to Mirror Lake and Stoney Creek loops.
The Mirror Lake Loop is posted at 3 km and about 32 minutes of walking from the Bill Fowler Visitor Information Centre.
Where Camrose sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Camrose orients around Mirror Lake Park in the middle of the city. The Bill Fowler Visitor Information Centre sits beside the water, where a three-kilometre paved Mirror Lake Loop starts, and winter crews clear ice for outdoor skating. Tourism Camrose and the City both sell the Urban Park System: more than 30 kilometres of paved trails tying Mirror Lake to Jubilee Park, Stoney Creek, Cascades Pond, and the valley routes locals actually use for evening bikes and morning runs.
Heritage sits close to downtown. The Camrose Heritage Railway Station and Park keeps a 1911 CN depot in the heritage district, and the Camrose and District Centennial Museum runs a prairie-village grounds with outbuildings and a deep artifact collection. Augustana neighbourhood planning links the mature streets between downtown and the University of Alberta Augustana campus. On the arts side, Chuck MacLean Arts Centre and the Jeanne and Peter Lougheed Performing Arts Centre keep theatre and music on the civic calendar.
Tourism Camrose pitches the city as under an hour from Edmonton International Airport and as host of Big Valley Jamboree, the country festival that floods hotels and campsites each summer. The Camrose Signature Series brands foods and makers you can only find here, and the printed regional tourism guide still points visitors to Mirror Lake for a first stop. On OpenStats City Score for 2026, Camrose sits at rank 58 of 125. Day to day, the story locals tell is still Mirror Lake first, then the trail network that fans out from it.
Drawn from City of Camrose - Mirror Lake Park, City of Camrose - Trails, City of Camrose - History and Heritage, Tourism Camrose.
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.
sports · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities with an Alberta Junior Hockey League club in the OpenStats seed list ranked by regular-season points percentage. Rank 1 = highest points %. Source: Wikipedia AJHL season standings. Clubs in towns outside the seed list are omitted.
2 editions · 2024–2025
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
OpenStats
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 Camrose 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.
4 editions · 2014–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
The Mirror Lake Loop is posted at 3 km and about 32 minutes of walking from the Bill Fowler Visitor Information Centre.
Camrose's Urban Park System includes over 30 km of interconnected paved multi-use trails.
Tourism Camrose calls Big Valley Jamboree the largest country music festival in North America.
Four properties in Camrose carry Alberta Provincial Heritage Designation, including the Canadian Northern Railway Station.
Central park with playground, picnic tables, seasonal food stands, and the trailhead for lake loops and Legacy Story Markers. Winter skating on the lake is a seasonal fixture.
Main family picnic park with a large playground and outdoor gym, linked by trail to Mirror Lake and Stoney Creek loops.
Original 1911 CN Railway Depot in the heritage district, a short walk from downtown heritage streets.
Museum grounds with a prairie-village layout, outbuildings, and a large artifact collection opened for Canada's Centennial year.
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