Saskatchewan · Civic arena
Moose Jaw drinking water hardness is 187 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#303 of 343
41% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Moose Jaw packs 5 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 Moose Jaw water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Swift Current · vs WeyburnHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Moose Jaw 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.
Sports
65 GP · 109 pts · Compare CHL cities
Moose Jaw sits at City Score rank #303 with a standing of 41%, from 5 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 23 places versus 2022 (#280 → #303).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #75 of 327 at 126 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.
Against the national corpus, Moose Jaw carries a City Score standing of 41% (rank #303 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 6 points below the Saskatchewan peer average across 16 ranked cities. Within Saskatchewan, Moose Jaw ranks #14 of 16 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is seismic hazard (standing 79%, rank #271 of 343, raw score 0.032). The weakest observed pillar is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 6%, rank #325 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 187 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Moose Jaw. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #303 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #140
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Rank #325
Rank #75
Rank #271
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Moose Jaw 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
· Indoor radon
The 2025 highest-radon study lists 238 communities. Regina, Moose Jaw, and Weyburn tie at 301.7 Bq/m³. Winnipeg-area communities cluster at 256.7 Bq/m³.
Published residential mill-rate context for Moose Jaw.
Outdoor stage for Concerts in the Park. Summer music has a fixed civic address here.
Guided trolley tour through local landmarks and stories. Tourism treats boarding as a standard first move.
Mac the Moose is billed as the selfie stop and local legend moose statue on the tourism home.
Where Moose Jaw sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Moose Jaw leans into Canada's Most Notorious City as Tourism Moose Jaw's standing slogan, delivered with a wink rather than a warning label. The Moose Jaw Trolley is the rolling version of that pitch: sit down, hear the stories, and roll past landmarks without pretending the prairie town is dull. Mac the Moose waits for the mandatory selfie, because a visit without the giant moose statue is considered unfinished business on the tourism home and unfinished teasing among friends who already took the photo years ago.
Underground, Tunnels of Moose Jaw sells the subterranean attraction that keeps the notorious brand concrete for guests who want a ticketed story. Above ground in summer, Crescent Park Amphitheatre hosts Concerts in the Park, which is how locals date warm evenings when the trolley is parked and the lawn fills with chairs. The Tourism Moose Jaw visitor centre at 450 Diefenbaker Drive is the practical door for maps and tickets when you arrive by highway and need a human, not a hashtag.
The OpenStats City Score puts Moose Jaw at rank 341 of 343 in 2026, last in the composite table. The hometown voice does not sound defeated about it. It sounds busy with trolley tours, tunnel tickets, Mac the Moose photos, and Crescent Park concerts that keep the slogan working. Visitors leave with tunnel ticket stubs and a Mac the Moose photo already texted home. Notorious, here, is a product line and a civic joke that still fills sidewalks and still sells a second night in town. Trolley rides and tunnel tickets remain the visitor rituals locals expect to hear about.
Drawn from Tourism Moose Jaw, Tunnels of Moose Jaw, Tourism Moose Jaw Visitors Centre.
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 Moose Jaw 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
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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
Sports · OpenStats
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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
Only one published edition places Moose Jaw in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
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). 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
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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
Health · OpenStats
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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
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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
Only one published edition places Moose Jaw 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
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.
Tourism Moose Jaw's slogan is Canada's Most Notorious City, framed as quirky heritage storytelling rather than crime panic.
Mac the Moose is billed as the selfie stop and local legend moose statue on the tourism home.
Concerts in the Park land at Crescent Park Amphitheatre on the tourism events calendar.
The Tourism Moose Jaw visitor centre lists 450 Diefenbaker Drive as its street address.
Underground tour attraction that makes the notorious slogan tangible. It is the subterranean half of the visitor circuit.
Guided trolley tour through local landmarks and stories. Tourism treats boarding as a standard first move.
Outdoor stage for Concerts in the Park. Summer music has a fixed civic address here.
Giant moose statue and required selfie landmark. Tourism copy treats the photo as part of a complete visit.
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