Manitoba
OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Portage la Prairie.
City Score #70 (2022) → #44 (2025)
Portage la Prairie sits at City Score rank #44 with a standing of 57%, from 8 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 26 places versus 2022 (#70 → #44).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #165 of 172 (2025); indoor radon rank #6 of 117 at 257 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #159 of 172 (7.36 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 Portage la Prairie.
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.
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.
Connectivity · OpenStats
OpenStats
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
OpenStats
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
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). 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
OpenStats
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
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
Health · OpenStats
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
sports · OpenStats
OpenStats
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 Portage la Prairie in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
sports · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities with a Manitoba Junior Hockey League club in the OpenStats seed list ranked by regular-season points percentage. Rank 1 = highest points %. Source: Wikipedia MJHL season standings. Clubs in towns outside the seed list are omitted.
3 editions · 2023–2025
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
Property tax · OpenStats
OpenStats
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
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.
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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