Alberta
OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Sylvan Lake.
City Score #62 (2022) → #34 (2025)
Sylvan Lake sits at City Score rank #34 with a standing of 59%, from 7 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 28 places versus 2022 (#62 → #34).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #121 of 172 (2025); residential mill rate rank #114 of 172 (9.50 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 Sylvan Lake.
Published residential mill-rate context for Sylvan Lake.
Twin arenas, curling, indoor track, play space, and the Diamond Valley Den in one complex. Off-season community life has a clear address.
Memorial Trail sports park with splash park, diamonds, campground, and Gulls Stadium. Construction still comes and goes as the long-term
Municipal highlights place Sylvan Lake about a twenty-minute drive west of Red Deer, the orientation locals give visitors without a map app.
Where Sylvan Lake sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Sylvan Lake is a lakeside town that refuses to be only a July postcard. The municipal about page calls residents Sylvan Lakers and lists polar bear dips, ice fishing, and lake skating beside paddleboards and beach volleyball. Homepage branding says Brilliant All Year, which matches a place that sells summer visitors hard while still running a full winter calendar. Town highlights put the community about twenty minutes west of Red Deer and count hundreds of thousands of summer visitors, so parking rules and lakefront etiquette are civic issues, not side notes.
The shore is a named map, not a vague beach. Centennial Park opens onto Lakeshore Drive with beach access; Rotary Lighthouse and Lakefront Parks hold the pier and waterfront rules; tents along the lakefront are restricted and canopy zones are posted. Inland, Pogadl Park on Memorial Trail is the big recreation build: Co-Operators Play Zone splash park, ball diamonds, municipal campground, and Sylvan Lake Gulls Stadium for the hometown ball club.
When the wind comes off the water, the NexSource Centre takes the handoff. Twin arenas, a five-sheet curling rink, indoor track, Whitecap Resources Indoor Play Space, and the Diamond Valley Den keep hockey, bonspiels, and local plates under one roof, with Sylvan Star Cheese and Snake Lake Brewing on the vendor list. Tourism, professional services, manufacturing, seniors support, and value-added agriculture show up in the town's own sector list, which is a fair portrait of a lake economy that still works after Labour Day. OpenStats has no City Score rank for Sylvan Lake in the current datapack, so the hometown tell stays local: Lakeshore Drive, Gulls nights at Pogadl, and a NexSource wristband after the beach closes.
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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
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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
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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
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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). 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
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 Sylvan Lake 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
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.
Town copy uses Sylvan Lakers for residents and lists winter lake uses such as polar bear dips, ice fishing, and skating alongside summer water sports.
Municipal highlights place Sylvan Lake about a twenty-minute drive west of Red Deer, the orientation locals give visitors without a map app.
Sylvan Lake Gulls Stadium at Pogadl Park is built, owned, and operated by the Sylvan Lake Gulls, so ballpark pride has a specific operator.
Lakefront rules ban tents along Lighthouse Park, Lakefront Park, Centennial Park, and the Pier, which is how busy summer weekends stay walkable.
Shorefront green space on Lakeshore Drive with beach access and playground. It is the easy answer when someone asks where the lake meets town.
Memorial Trail sports park with splash park, diamonds, campground, and Gulls Stadium. Construction still comes and goes as the long-term build continues.
Twin arenas, curling, indoor track, play space, and the Diamond Valley Den in one complex. Off-season community life has a clear address.
The waterfront park cluster around the lighthouse and pier, with posted rules for dogs, tents, and beach access. Summer crowd management starts here.
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