Manitoba · Civic arena
Winkler drinking water hardness is 176 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#17 of 343
62% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Winkler 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.
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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.
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Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Winkler 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.
Winkler sits at City Score rank #17 with a standing of 62%, 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 37 places versus 2022 (#54 → #17).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #116 of 327 at 112 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, Winkler carries a City Score standing of 62% (rank #17 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 11 points above the Manitoba peer average across 13 ranked cities. Within Manitoba, Winkler ranks #1 of 13 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is seismic hazard (standing 100%, rank #343 of 343, raw score 0.014). The weakest observed pillar is indoor radon (standing 35%, rank #116 of 327).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 176 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Winkler. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #17 of 343
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Pillar avg · hardness #156
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Winkler 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 Winkler.
Year-round stage with more than sixty shows, the indoor counterpart to fairgrounds weekends.
Main and Pembina corner park with historic storyboards, cairns, gardens, and Wednesday concert nights.
Winkler Harvest Festival admission is free, staged at the fairgrounds at 1045 Grandeur Avenue.
Where Winkler sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Winkler's August calendar belongs to the Harvest Festival at the Winkler Fairgrounds on Grandeur Avenue, a free weekend of music, food, and midway energy that PembinaValleyOnline treats as a regional draw. Culture Fest rides along in the same stretch, and city pages put Concerts in the Park at Bethel Heritage Park on Wednesday nights through summer. Bethel sits at Main Street and Pembina Avenue with storyboards, cairns, and flower beds that the Horticulture Society keeps sharp. City Hall at 185 Main Street shows rotating historic displays and a foyer of more than fifty flags for residents' home countries, a quiet signal that newcomer stories are part of the civic furniture.
Recreation stacks on the Parkland: ball diamonds, soccer pitches, Winkler Aquatic Centre, courts, and an outdoor rink, with Parkland Hill hosting the Canada Day carnival. Parkview Gardens and the Discovery Nature Sanctuary off Eastview Drive give quieter corners when the fairgrounds are loud. PW Enns Centennial Concert Hall carries more than sixty shows a year, and the Winkler Arts and Culture Centre fills gallery nights between festival peaks.
Growth shows up as public hearings along corridors like Northlands Parkway Collegiate and Navigator Road, the kind of notice board that says the map is still moving. OpenStats also places Winkler among its higher indoor radon rankings, a data footnote beside Harvest Festival identity. The hometown claim is Pembina Valley plain: Grandeur Avenue fairgrounds, Bethel concerts, Parkland sports, and a Main Street hall that hangs flags without making a speech about it.
Drawn from City of Winkler, Visit Winkler, City of Winkler, PembinaValleyOnline.
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 Winkler 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.
2 editions · 2017–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Winkler Harvest Festival admission is free, staged at the fairgrounds at 1045 Grandeur Avenue.
City Hall's foyer displays over fifty flags representing residents' home countries.
Discovery Nature Sanctuary is a thirty-two-acre urban nature space off Eastview Drive for waterfowl and songbirds.
OpenStats ranks Winkler seventh among communities with the highest indoor radon scores in its 2026 atlas set.
Grandeur Avenue grounds that host Harvest Festival each August, the loudest weekend on the local calendar.
Main and Pembina corner park with historic storyboards, cairns, gardens, and Wednesday concert nights.
Year-round stage with more than sixty shows, the indoor counterpart to fairgrounds weekends.
Big recreation cluster with diamonds, soccer, aquatic centre, courts, and the hill used for Canada Day.
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