Saskatchewan
OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Estevan.
Estevan sits at City Score rank #165 with a standing of 37%, from 7 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 #171 of 172 (2025); residential mill rate rank #138 of 172 (8.31 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 Estevan.
Published residential mill-rate context for Estevan.
Estevan's arena and event venue in municipal quick-access menus. When someone says they are going to Affinity Place, the whole town knows
Named dam and reservoir landmark on the Souris River side of town. Municipal calendars treat it as geography people already recognize.
Highways 39, 47, and 18 are the named access routes, with Hwy 39 hosting Saskatchewan's only 24-hour Port of Entry from the United States.
Where Estevan sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Estevan introduces itself with geography before slogans. The City of Estevan calls it the closest prairie-provinces city to the US border, and the getting-here copy names highways 39, 47, and 18 without romance. Hwy 39 carries Saskatchewan's only 24-hour Port of Entry from the United States, which is how residents explain why plates change so often at Affinity Place events. The Souris River runs through that orientation, with Boundary Dam as the named reservoir landmark on municipal calendars and visitor text that still points people to water.
Recreation talk is concrete. Affinity Place is the arena and booking shorthand in quick-access menus. Estevan Leisure Centre covers pools and fitness when the prairie wind makes outdoor plans negotiable. The Estevan Bruins keep SJHL hockey on the recreation listings, so junior hockey nights are a civic habit rather than a borrowed Regina story. Souris Valley Theatre and Woodlawn Regional Park show up on the same municipal event board when summer wants a different stage than ice.
CBC Saskatchewan covers the wider provincial desk when Estevan files need a broader microphone, but day-to-day life still sounds local: river, dam, highways, and rink. OpenStats has no composite City Score rank for Estevan in the current datapack. The hometown portrait does not need one. Nobody needs a borrowed nickname when the border and the Souris River already do the introducing. It is a Souris River border city that points to Boundary Dam, Affinity Place, the Leisure Centre, and the Bruins when someone asks what evenings look like after the Port of Entry traffic thins.
Drawn from City of Estevan, City of Estevan Recreation, CBC Saskatchewan.
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
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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
sports · OpenStats
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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 Estevan in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Growth · OpenStats
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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
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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
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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.
Municipal visitor copy calls Estevan the closest city to the US border among the prairie provinces.
Highways 39, 47, and 18 are the named access routes, with Hwy 39 hosting Saskatchewan's only 24-hour Port of Entry from the United States.
Estevan Bruins SJHL hockey is listed on the city's recreation pages beside other local clubs.
Boundary Dam appears on municipal event and visitor framing as a named local landmark.
Estevan's arena and event venue in municipal quick-access menus. When someone says they are going to Affinity Place, the whole town knows the address type.
Primary municipal recreation facility for pools and fitness. It pairs with Affinity Place as the indoor civic circuit.
Named dam and reservoir landmark on the Souris River side of town. Municipal calendars treat it as geography people already recognize.
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