Saskatchewan · Civic arena
Swift Current drinking water hardness is 238 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#302 of 343
42% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Swift Current 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 Swift Current water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Moose Jaw · vs WeyburnHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Swift Current 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
66 GP · 71 pts · Compare CHL cities
Swift Current sits at City Score rank #302 with a standing of 42%, 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. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #27 of 327 at 165 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, Swift Current carries a City Score standing of 42% (rank #302 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 6 points below the Saskatchewan peer average across 16 ranked cities. Within Saskatchewan, Swift Current ranks #13 of 16 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is seismic hazard (standing 90%, rank #307 of 343, raw score 0.022). The weakest observed pillar is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 5%, rank #327 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 238 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Swift Current. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #302 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #60
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Rank #327
Rank #27
Rank #307
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Swift Current 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 Swift Current.
Regional care anchor named alongside emergency services in municipal community framing.
Downtown Saturday market from June through September, a summer habit on the city's own about page.
The Chinook Pathway follows Swift Current Creek for walking and riding through the city's park network.
Where Swift Current sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Swift Current is the major population centre for southwest Saskatchewan, a plain line the city repeats because the map makes it true. Trans-Canada Highway traffic turns the community into a practical stop as much as a hometown, with downtown Market Square on summer Saturdays and retail gravity at Swift Current Mall and Wheatland Mall. Economic development pages call it the Transportation Hub of Southwest Saskatchewan, pointing at Highway 4, the CPR mainline, and industrial land that sits close to those corridors for manufacturers serving agriculture and energy.
Daily recreation follows Swift Current Creek along the Chinook Pathway, a multi-use route the about page pairs with two 18-hole golf courses and an indoor aquatic centre. Cypress Regional Hospital and Great Plains College anchor regional care and training; Chinook School Division and Holy Trinity Roman Catholic School Division cover the school side. The Southwest Newcomer Welcome Centre on Central Avenue North makes immigration part of ordinary downtown service, not a side program, and concert nights keep filling the calendar between festival peaks.
Frontier Days on the July 1 long weekend remains the civic exhale: Canada Day Parade, kiddie parade, midway, rodeo, and live acts that pull the southwest into town. Agriculture and energy language show up in business-development copy, including the Swift Current Research and Development Centre's wheat-innovation claim and southwest helium opportunity talk. The hometown feel is quiet creek-path miles after supper, highway-stop practicality, and a Frontier Days weekend that still sets the summer clock for farms and town blocks alike.
Drawn from City of Swift Current, Swift Current Economic Development, City of Swift Current.
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 Swift Current 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
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
Only one published edition places Swift Current in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
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
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
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 Swift Current in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
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
Livability
MoneySense
Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
3 editions · 2014–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Municipal about copy frames Swift Current as the major population centre for southwest Saskatchewan and a Trans-Canada visitor stop.
The Chinook Pathway follows Swift Current Creek for walking and riding through the city's park network.
Frontier Days on the July 1 long weekend bundles parade, midway, rodeo, and live acts into the southwest's signature civic weekend.
Economic development materials brand the city the Transportation Hub of Southwest Saskatchewan for highway and rail access.
Creek-side multi-use path that is the default outdoor mileage for residents between errands and park stops.
Downtown Saturday market from June through September, a summer habit on the city's own about page.
Regional care anchor named alongside emergency services in municipal community framing.
Downtown gateway on Central Avenue North for immigrants and refugees settling into southwest Saskatchewan.
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