Nunavut · Civic arena
Iqaluit drinking water hardness is 119 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#176 of 343
50% City Score XP
4/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Iqaluit packs 4 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. This page uses a regional estimate — open the water atlas for method notes.
Full Iqaluit water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Smiths Falls · vs TecumsehHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Iqaluit 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.
Iqaluit sits at City Score rank #176 with a standing of 50%, from 4 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 48 places versus 2022 (#224 → #176).
Published study placements for Iqaluit are charted below when available. Topic atlases carry the underlying municipal readings for the same place.
Against the national corpus, Iqaluit carries a City Score standing of 50% (rank #176 of 343) with 4 of 8 pillars observed. Within Nunavut, Iqaluit ranks #1 of 1 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is seismic hazard (standing 81%, rank #277 of 343, raw score 0.031). The weakest observed pillar is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 12%, rank #304 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 119 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Iqaluit. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #176 of 343
4/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #269
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Iqaluit 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 Iqaluit.
The near-town hiking destination named on municipal visitor pages. A short jump from city streets into territorial park trail time.
A culture stop paired with Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum on the City's explore list. Useful orientation without leaving the capital.
Summer in the Square returns with a chili cook-off and a local vendor market on the civic calendar.
Where Iqaluit sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Iqaluit is Nunavut's capital, and the City still talks to Iqalummiut in a northern register. The recreation header lists a blizzard information line beside RCMP and fire numbers, a small tell that weather can rewrite the day. Municipal life runs through places with Inuktitut names in ordinary use: Makkuttukkuvik Youth Centre, Elder's Qammaq, Abe Okpik Hall, and the Iqaluit Aquatic Centre inside the Arctic Winter Games Complex orbit. Leave No Trace notes on the facilities page even talk about being on the land and at trailheads, which is how recreation is framed here. City Hall sits on Mivvik Street. Plateau Subdivision is the planning name you hear when housing and lots are the file.
Warm months bring Summer in the Square, with a chili cook-off and a local market that City news treats as a civic appointment, not a tourist add-on. Explore pages point visitors and residents alike to Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park for hiking, Unikkaarvik Visitor Centre and Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum for culture stops, and boat trips out to Qaummaarvik Park. Alianait! still names the arts-festival Big Top in municipal visitor copy. Boat storage is its own planning conversation on the City news list, because getting on the water is part of how the town works. Qikiqtani General Hospital anchors health headlines when Nunatsiaq covers local partnerships, and housing demand keeps showing up in the same local news weather.
OpenStats has no City Score placement for Iqaluit in the current datapack. The hometown read stays northern and specific: blizzard phones, Iqalummiut recreation buildings, Summer in the Square, and trails that lead toward Sylvia Grinnell rather than a suburban beltway.
Drawn from City of Iqaluit, City of Iqaluit recreation, Explore Iqaluit, Summer in the Square, Nunatsiaq 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 Iqaluit 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
OpenStats
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
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
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
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
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
City recreation pages address residents as Iqalummiut and list a dedicated blizzard information number in the header.
Summer in the Square returns with a chili cook-off and a local vendor market on the civic calendar.
Facility rentals run through the Arctic Winter Games Complex recreation reception centre.
Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park is named on the City's Explore Iqaluit page for hiking near town.
The near-town hiking destination named on municipal visitor pages. A short jump from city streets into territorial park trail time.
The busy recreation hub for swim bookings and guest services. Hours run long because the pool carries a lot of winter social life.
A culture stop paired with Nunatta Sunakkutaangit Museum on the City's explore list. Useful orientation without leaving the capital.
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