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Kamloops

Kamloops drinking water hardness is 134 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Kamloops

Census_metropolitan_area114k pop
43XP
#290

#290 of 343

43% City Score XP

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City Score XP

6/8 pillars on the board

43%#290

Decade trail

Kamloops packs 6 of eight open-data pillars into its composite standing. Tap a rival below to see how the hometown stacks up head-to-head.

Kamloops drinking water

Regional estimate from nearest municipal sample

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.

Hardness
134 mg/L
hard
pH
7.2
Lead
0.6 μg/L

Full Kamloops water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Nanaimo · vs CrestonHardness guide

Watershed to tap · system map

How Kamloops's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Kamloops from municipal and provincial water records. Open the animated map for the full watershed-to-tap diagram — no nested topic navigation here.

Local numbers for Kamloops

Permits, tax, internet, radon, hazards, drinking water, and sports rankings where a CHL hometown applies.

Sports

Junior hockey in Kamloops

Full sports page →
Team
Kamloops Blazers
League
WHL
Points %
38.3%

64 GP · 49 pts · Compare CHL cities

How Kamloops scores

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Kamloops sits at City Score rank #290 with a standing of 43%, from 6 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. Dropping 78 places versus 2022 (#212 → #290).

Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #243 of 327 at 72 Bq/m³ survey mean. Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

In the 2025 City Score edition, Kamloops carries a City Score standing of 43% (rank #290 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 5 points below the British Columbia peer average across 58 ranked cities. Within British Columbia, Kamloops ranks #43 of 58 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is indoor radon (standing 74%, rank #243 of 327, raw score 72.4). The weakest observed pillar is police-reported crime severity (standing 18%, rank #18 of 102, 134.0 CSI). Crime severity uses the Statistics Canada police-service CSI mapped to Kamloops, British Columbia, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, municipal (table 35100063), not a regional proxy.

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 134 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Kamloops. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#290
Arena rank (of 343)
43%
City Score
6
Pillars observed
Dropping−78
vs 2022
#212 → #290

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #290 of 343

City Score

6/8 pillars · main XP bar

43%#290
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #223

40%
Building permits

No placement

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Internet

Rank #247

28%
Radon

Rank #243

74%
Hazards

Rank #214

62%
Property tax

No placement

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Kamloops pillar standing

Eight equal-weight City Score pillars, 2025 panel year.

TaxPermitsNetRadonWaterHazardsGrowthCrime

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

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In the news

Data desk

Hometown notes

City profile

Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.

Kamloops in brief

Kamloops is easier to place once you use the older name. City pages translate Tk'emlúps as where the rivers meet, home of the Tk’emlupsemc, the people of the confluence, where the North and South Thompson come together in the Thompson Valley. Tourism shortens the whole package to the 'Loops, and the grasslands, ponderosa pines, and Thompson River do the rest of the explaining. This is Southern Interior country with big sky, grassland edges, and a working sports calendar.

The civic brand that sticks is Canada's Tournament Capital. Amateur tournaments, high-performance camps, and national events cycle through town, while the Kamloops Blazers fill the Sandman Centre and the Kamloops Storm work McArthur Island Sports & Events Centre. Thompson Rivers University keeps WolfPack nights on the board. Between games, Riverside Park and Kenna Cartwright Nature Park are the default answers for a walk, and Kamloopa Powwow and the Secwépemc Museum & Heritage Park keep Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc culture on the public calendar.

Food and brew scenes have caught up with the river story: tourism talks five microbreweries, distilleries, cideries, and Thompson Valley wineries beside the tournament hotels. Castanet now carries the daily desk that used to live under Kamloops This Week. OpenStats still scores the city carefully on permits and radon among other measures, but hometown talk starts with confluence, tournaments, and which park you meant. Kamloops Lake sits on the tourism map when the rivers feel too familiar. If the rivers, the 'Loops, and Tournament Capital all show up, the map is right.

Drawn from City of Kamloops, Tourism Kamloops, Tourism Kamloops, Castanet Kamloops.

City Score over time

City Score from 2016–2025 across eight open-data pillars. Individual study placements are listed in the panels below.

0%25%50%75%100%2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
OpenStats City Score

Rankings for Kamloops

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 Broadband Download Speeds

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

#247
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 197

Sports · OpenStats

OpenStats CHL Points Percentage

OpenStats

Canadian Hockey League (OHL, WHL, QMJHL) member cities ranked by regular-season points percentage. One CHL team maps to each OpenStats hometown slug; standings snapshot is curated from public league tables.

Single edition · 2025

#45
Published · 2025 · of 45
Score 0.383

Only one published edition places Kamloops in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Composite · OpenStats

OpenStats City Score

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

#290
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.427

Safety · OpenStats

OpenStats Crime Severity Index

OpenStats

Communities ranked by Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index at police-service grain (Tables 35-10-0026-01 and 35-10-0063-01 for British Columbia). Rank 1 is highest CSI (worse). Cities without a police-service match are not listed; the safety pillar scores at median standing on City Score. Hometown pages name the police service and reference year.

CSI from Kamloops, British Columbia, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, municipal (2025, Table 35-10-0063-01).

10 editions · 2016–2025

#18
Latest · 2025 · of 102
Score 134.03

Water · OpenStats

OpenStats Drinking Water Hardness

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

#223
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 134

Health · OpenStats

OpenStats Highest Indoor Radon

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

#243
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 72.4

Sports · OpenStats

OpenStats Local Sports Depth

OpenStats

Hometowns with a mapped junior hockey franchise ranked by local sports depth: league tier (CHL member leagues = 1.0, MHL = 0.65) multiplied by regular-season points percentage. Surfaces cities with both a franchise and a strong standings year; not a City Score pillar input.

Single edition · 2025

#46
Published · 2025 · of 49
Score 0.383

Only one published edition places Kamloops in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Growth · OpenStats

OpenStats Population Growth

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

#281
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.0012977211648197917

Hazards · OpenStats

OpenStats Seismic Hazard (PGA)

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

#214
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.039

Livability

Maclean's Best Communities

Maclean's

Successor-style municipal livability ranking published by Maclean's for 2019 and 2021 (no 2020 edition).

Single edition · 2021

#37
Published · 2021 · of 415

Only one published edition places Kamloops in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Worth knowing in Kamloops

Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.

  • City pages translate Kamloops from Tk'emlúps, where the rivers meet, for the Tk’emlupsemc people of the confluence.

    City of Kamloops

  • Tourism welcomes visitors to the 'Loops while the city markets itself as Canada's Tournament Capital.

    Tourism Kamloops

  • Kamloops Blazers hockey anchors Sandman Centre nights on the tournament-capital sports board.

    Tourism Kamloops

  • Kamloopa Powwow is a named date on Tourism Kamloops' Indigenous experiences calendar.

    Tourism Kamloops

Places to see

Riverside Park

Riverfront default when someone in the 'Loops says they are heading to the park after work.

Sandman Centre

Blazers home rink and a core Tournament Capital venue when Kamloops hosts a crowd.

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