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Terrace

Terrace drinking water hardness is 108 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Terrace

Census_agglomeration20k pop
44XP
#264

#264 of 343

44% City Score XP

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City Score XP

6/8 pillars on the board

44%#264

Decade trail

Terrace packs 6 of eight open-data pillars into its composite standing. Tap a rival below to see how the hometown stacks up head-to-head.

Terrace drinking water

Regional estimate from nearest municipal sample

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.

Hardness
108 mg/L
moderately hard
pH
8.1
Lead
0.4 μg/L

Full Terrace water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs West Kelowna · vs VictoriaHardness guide

Watershed to tap · system map

How Terrace's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Terrace from municipal and provincial water records. Open the animated map for the full watershed-to-tap diagram — no nested topic navigation here.

Local numbers for Terrace

Permits, tax, internet, radon, hazards, drinking water, and sports rankings where a CHL hometown applies.

How Terrace scores

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Terrace sits at City Score rank #264 with a standing of 44%, from 6 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 20 places versus 2022 (#244 → #264).

Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #202 of 327 at 94 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.

Among Canadian cities on the hub, Terrace carries a City Score standing of 44% (rank #264 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 3 points below the British Columbia peer average across 58 ranked cities. Within British Columbia, Terrace ranks #35 of 58 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is drinking-water hardness (standing 84%, rank #287 of 343, raw score 108). The weakest observed pillar is police-reported crime severity (standing 13%, rank #13 of 102, 148.1 CSI). Crime severity uses the Statistics Canada police-service CSI mapped to Terrace, British Columbia, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, municipal (table 35100063), not a regional proxy.

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 108 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Terrace. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#264
Arena rank (of 343)
44%
City Score
6
Pillars observed
Dropping−20
vs 2022
#244 → #264

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #264 of 343

City Score

6/8 pillars · main XP bar

44%#264
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #287

63%
Building permits

No placement

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Internet

Rank #228

34%
Radon

Rank #202

62%
Hazards

Rank #181

53%
Property tax

No placement

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Terrace pillar standing

Eight equal-weight City Score pillars, 2025 panel year.

TaxPermitsNetRadonWaterHazardsGrowthCrime

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

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Hometown notes

City profile

Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.

Terrace in brief

Terrace sits on raised benches beside the Skeena River where three valleys meet: Skeena, Kitimat, and Kitsumkalum. Municipal history starts with Tsimshian territory and the neighbouring communities of Kitsumkalum and Kitselas, then follows sternwheeler landings at places like Eby's Landing before the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway remade the valley after 1914. George Little's townsite became Terrace after Littleton was rejected, and downtown still gathers at George Little Park on Lakelse Avenue with a stage, Spirit Square, playground, and summer concerts that spill into festival season.

August belongs to Riverboat Days, the northwest's largest community festival, stretching from the BC Day weekend through a full program of Legion Parade, Beach Blast Volleyball, Concerts in the Park at Centre Stage, and Fireworks over Ferry Island. The City has even run free transit for festival weekends. Ferry Island itself is a 150-acre municipal park and campground on the Skeena a few kilometres from downtown, open to walkers year-round when the campsites are closed.

After mills thinned out, Terrace leaned into its crossroads role between Prince Rupert's port and Kitimat industry, calling itself a northwest service centre while Skeena Sawmills remains as a named forest holdout. Homepage notes still swing from Stage 3 water restrictions to fire bans, Lakelse Avenue revitalization, and centennial celebrations. Locals introduce the place with the Skeena, Riverboat Days, and three-valley geography before any brochure slogan. Thornhill across the river remains part of the everyday valley map, and Kitselas Canyon heritage tours still show up on festival weekends.

Drawn from City of Terrace - History, City of Terrace - George Little Park, City of Terrace - Ferry Island Campground, Terrace Riverboat Days.

City Score over time

City Score from 2016–2025 across eight open-data pillars. Individual study placements are listed in the panels below.

0%25%50%75%100%2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
OpenStats City Score

Rankings for Terrace

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 Broadband Download Speeds

OpenStats

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

#228
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 262.9

Composite · OpenStats

OpenStats City Score

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

#264
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.445

Safety · OpenStats

OpenStats Crime Severity Index

OpenStats

Communities ranked by Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index at police-service grain (Tables 35-10-0026-01 and 35-10-0063-01 for British Columbia). Rank 1 is highest CSI (worse). Cities without a police-service match are not listed; the safety pillar scores at median standing on City Score. Hometown pages name the police service and reference year.

CSI from Terrace, British Columbia, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, municipal (2025, Table 35-10-0063-01).

10 editions · 2016–2025

#13
Latest · 2025 · of 102
Score 148.07

Water · OpenStats

OpenStats Drinking Water Hardness

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

#287
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 108

Health · OpenStats

OpenStats Highest Indoor Radon

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

#202
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 93.5

Growth · OpenStats

OpenStats Population Growth

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

#235
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.00589622641509434

Hazards · OpenStats

OpenStats Seismic Hazard (PGA)

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

#181
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.043

Livability

Maclean's Best Communities

Maclean's

Successor-style municipal livability ranking published by Maclean's for 2019 and 2021 (no 2020 edition).

Single edition · 2021

#188
Published · 2021 · of 415

Only one published edition places Terrace in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Worth knowing in Terrace

Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.

Places to see

George Little Park

Downtown gathering place named for the town founder, with outdoor stage, Spirit Square, and playground. Riverboat Days concerts make it the August living room.

Ferry Island

Skeena park and municipal campground with trails and tree carvings, also the fireworks vantage for Riverboat Days. Walkers use it year-round.

Lakelse Avenue

Downtown spine with revitalization work on the civic agenda. Pair a stroll here with George Little Park a block off the main strip.

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