Alberta
OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Wetaskiwin.
City Score #63 (2022) → #25 (2025)
Wetaskiwin sits at City Score rank #25 with a standing of 61%, 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 38 places versus 2022 (#63 → #25).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #150 of 172 (2025); indoor radon rank #56 of 117 at 114 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #169 of 172 (6.91 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 Wetaskiwin.
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 of
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.
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 57 of 125 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.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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 Wetaskiwin 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
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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
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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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