Manitoba · Civic arena
Portage la Prairie drinking water hardness is 137 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#42 of 343
59% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Portage la Prairie 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.
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Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Portage la Prairie 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.
Portage la Prairie sits at City Score rank #42 with a standing of 59%, 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. Rising 48 places versus 2022 (#90 → #42).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #114 of 327 at 112 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, Portage la Prairie carries a City Score standing of 59% (rank #42 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 7 points above the Manitoba peer average across 13 ranked cities. Within Manitoba, Portage la Prairie ranks #3 of 13 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is seismic hazard (standing 97%, rank #332 of 343, raw score 0.015). The weakest observed pillar is indoor radon (standing 35%, rank #114 of 327).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 137 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Portage la Prairie. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #42 of 343
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Pillar avg · hardness #220
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Portage la Prairie 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 Portage la Prairie.
Central greenspace with playgrounds, picnic shelters, and the Splash Island water-play address locals give visitors first.
Recreation partner linked from the city docks page for kayak rentals on Crescent Lake.
Locals and PortageOnline headlines default to Portage, saving the full name for formal city letterhead.
Where Portage la Prairie sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
People here say Portage first and the full name second. Recreation sits at the centre of how the city describes itself: Island Park wrapped by Crescent Lake, picnic shelters with names like Splash Island, the Ukrainian Connection Bandstand, and the Kinsmen Duck Pond, plus community docks that put kayaks on the water through the Portage Regional Recreation Authority and Stride Place. City Hall on Saskatchewan Ave E keeps the notices coming, from watermain flushing nights to Royal Road South closures, so the municipal desk feels close to street level.
Work talk leans agricultural and logistical. PortageOnline coverage frames the area as a hub for transportation, agriculture, and food processing, and Southport sits just beside town with 3 Canadian Forces Flying Training School in the local mix. Connect Portage is how residents sign up for the city's own alerts. Summer weekends still default to Island Park shelters and Crescent Lake paddles more than highway stops, and Parks Division maps treat the greenspace loop as everyday infrastructure rather than a tourist side trip.
Community calendars fill with Portage Gives fundraisers and neighbourhood programs that treat the park-and-lake circuit as shared ground for ordinary weekends. OpenStats also places Portage among the higher indoor radon readings in its atlas set, a quiet data note beside the louder Crescent Lake identity. The hometown read is simple: Island Park, Crescent Lake docks, Southport on the edge, and a short name that needs no explanation once you are on Saskatchewan Avenue.
Drawn from City of Portage la Prairie, City of Portage la Prairie, PortageOnline, PortageOnline.
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 Portage la Prairie 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
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
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
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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
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
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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.
Crescent Lake community docks are a municipal summer service for kayaking and canoeing, with rentals through the Portage Regional Recreation Authority.
Island Park's free picnic shelters include Splash Island, the Ukrainian Connection Bandstand, and the Kinsmen Duck Pond shelter.
Local business coverage calls Portage a strategic hub for transportation, agriculture, and food processing.
OpenStats ranks Portage sixth among communities with the highest indoor radon scores in its 2026 atlas set.
Central greenspace with playgrounds, picnic shelters, and the Splash Island water-play address locals give visitors first.
Oxbow lake beside Island Park with municipal community docks for paddling season.
Recreation partner linked from the city docks page for kayak rentals on Crescent Lake.
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