Alberta · Civic arena
Wetaskiwin drinking water hardness is 112 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#63 of 343
57% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Wetaskiwin 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 Wetaskiwin water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Sylvan Lake · vs BonnyvilleHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Wetaskiwin 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.
Wetaskiwin sits at City Score rank #63 with a standing of 57%, 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 85 places versus 2022 (#148 → #63).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #166 of 327 at 104 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, Wetaskiwin carries a City Score standing of 57% (rank #63 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 7 points above the Alberta peer average across 51 ranked cities. Within Alberta, Wetaskiwin ranks #7 of 51 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is drinking-water hardness (standing 81%, rank #278 of 343, raw score 112). The weakest observed pillar is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 29%, rank #243 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 112 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Wetaskiwin. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #63 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #278
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Wetaskiwin 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 Wetaskiwin.
Day-use park around a constructed lake with paved loop trail, picnic grounds, playground, and dog park. Family afternoons have a clear
Restored buildings, murals, and interpretive signage on the main street, with the heritage museum nearby. It is the walking tour version
Before the current name stuck, the railway stop was Siding 16 on the Calgary and Edmonton line.
Where Wetaskiwin sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Wetaskiwin introduces itself with a Cree name the city translates as the hills where peace was made, and the municipal about page still tells the Buffalo Child and Little Bear pipe story that sits behind Peace Hills. Railway memory is almost as stubborn: Siding 16 on the Calgary and Edmonton line became Wetaskiwin at Father Lacombe's suggestion, then a town in 1902 and a city in 1906. Historic Downtown keeps that age visible with restored facades, murals, interpretive signs, and the Wetaskiwin and District Heritage Museum on the walk.
Recreation has clear hometown addresses. The Manluk Centre: Wetaskiwin Regional Aquatics & Fitness is the swim-and-gym flagship, while Manluk Theatre keeps stage nights in the local entertainment rotation. By-the-Lake Park wraps a constructed lake with a 2.5 kilometre paved trail and the Bark Park; Ashoro Friendship Park marks the sister-city link with Ashoro, Japan; Diamond Jubilee Park puts amphitheatre and cenotaph on the approach to downtown; Montgomery Park grows an Edible Urban Forest.
The Pipestone Flyer and Wetaskiwin Times share the print beat, and city messaging leans on a WE / WIN slogan that fits a place proud of small-city continuity. Taste of Wetaskiwin and Welcoming Week sit on the civic calendar beside Ride to Reynolds outing days, and NASCAR weekends at Edmonton International Raceway still put Wetaskiwin on regional sports fronts. Curbside recycling is the practical 2026 rollout story. The OpenStats City Score ranks Wetaskiwin 72 of 343 in 2026. The hometown tell is Peace Hills language, Manluk pool steam, and a main street that still looks like it remembers Siding 16.
Drawn from City of Wetaskiwin, City of Wetaskiwin, City of Wetaskiwin, Wetaskiwin Times, Pipestone Flyer.
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 Wetaskiwin 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
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
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
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.
4 editions · 2014–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
City pages explain Wetaskiwin as a Cree word meaning the hills where peace was made, a founding story still taught on the municipal about page.
Before the current name stuck, the railway stop was Siding 16 on the Calgary and Edmonton line.
Ashoro Friendship Park commemorates Wetaskiwin's sister-city relationship with Ashoro, Japan, in a residential-neighbourhood green space.
By-the-Lake Park centres on a 17-acre constructed lake ringed by a 2.5 kilometre paved trail, with the Bark Park off-leash area on the north side.
Competition pool, leisure pool, waterslides, steam room, and fitness floor for the region. When the annual maintenance window ends, the whole city hears Welcome Back.
Restored buildings, murals, and interpretive signage on the main street, with the heritage museum nearby. It is the walking tour version of a 1906 city.
Day-use park around a constructed lake with paved loop trail, picnic grounds, playground, and dog park. Family afternoons have a clear Wetaskiwin address.
Amphitheatre, cenotaph, and paved paths on the way into the historic downtown core. Performance nights and Remembrance gatherings share the same green.
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