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OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Williams Lake.
City Score #80 (2022) → #54 (2025)
Williams Lake sits at City Score rank #54 with a standing of 55%, 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 26 places versus 2022 (#80 → #54).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #139 of 172 (2025); residential mill rate rank #139 of 172 (8.29 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 Williams Lake.
Published residential mill-rate context for Williams Lake.
Primary indoor rec address on Proctor Street, paired with Kiwanis-Rotary Park next door. City programming and dry-grad logistics both route
Central park with rose garden, outdoor theatre, picnic lawns, and skate terrain. Canada Day and disc golf both use it as the civic backyard.
Stampede Park sits in a natural amphitheatre below the Y intersection of Cariboo Highway 97 and Chilcotin Highway 20.
Where Williams Lake sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Williams Lake introduces itself at Stampede Park, the natural amphitheatre just below the Y where Highway 97 meets Highway 20. The grounds hold the World Famous Williams Lake Stampede, indoor riding arena, race track, and stables, with Scout Island Nature Centre and the River Valley Trail within an easy walk. Ranching geography still frames the town: Stampede organizers describe stockyards serving cattle country from Clinton to Quesnel and Bella Coola to Horsefly, which is how a Cariboo Chilcotin service centre talks about itself.
Civic recreation sits close to that same centre. Boitanio Park is the pride lawn with rose garden, Gwen Ringwood outdoor theatre, and skate and bike parks. The Cariboo Memorial Recreation Complex, shortened to CMRC in city notices, anchors Proctor Street beside Kiwanis-Rotary Park spray features. Fox Mountain hosts the Mud Puddle Trail Run. Pioneer Drive paving notices and Mart Street City Hall keep ordinary municipal business on the same homepage as FireSmart tips.
Fire season is not background colour. Wildfire Wednesday posts, Felker Lake response, and a Level 1 Emergency Operations Centre activation show how quickly forestry-town routines become emergency routines. The Tribune covers Pear Lake growth and Cariboo Chilcotin forestry forums in the same week as Art Walk downtown. Mackenzie Avenue paving and airport cafe reopenings share the civic calendar with Stampede planning. The hometown frame is Stampede weekend, highway Y geography, and a rec system built for a working Cariboo centre that watches the hills every summer.
Drawn from City of Williams Lake Stampede Park, City of Williams Lake Boitanio Park, City of Williams Lake, Williams Lake Stampede, Williams Lake Tribune.
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
OpenStats
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
OpenStats
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
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). 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 Williams Lake 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
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
Maclean's
Successor-style municipal livability ranking published by Maclean's for 2019 and 2021 (no 2020 edition).
Single edition · 2021
Only one published edition places Williams Lake in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
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.
Stampede Park sits in a natural amphitheatre below the Y intersection of Cariboo Highway 97 and Chilcotin Highway 20.
Williams Lake Stampede bills itself as a World Famous CPRA rodeo anchored in a community family event.
Boitanio Park covers about 17 hectares with a rose garden entrance, paved trails, and bike and skate parks.
Wildfire Wednesday is the city's recurring FireSmart tip series through fire season.
Rodeo grounds, grandstand, and equestrian facilities at the highway Y. Scout Island and the River Valley Trailhead sit close enough that a Stampede weekend walk can turn into a nature stop.
Central park with rose garden, outdoor theatre, picnic lawns, and skate terrain. Canada Day and disc golf both use it as the civic backyard.
Primary indoor rec address on Proctor Street, paired with Kiwanis-Rotary Park next door. City programming and dry-grad logistics both route through CMRC.
Trail network that hosts the Mud Puddle Trail Run. It is the muddy June outing when Boitanio's lawn feels too tidy.
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