Saskatchewan · Civic arena
Yorkton drinking water hardness is 279 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#286 of 343
43% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Yorkton 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 Yorkton water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Estevan · vs WeyburnHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Yorkton 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.
Yorkton sits at City Score rank #286 with a standing of 43%, 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 50 places versus 2022 (#336 → #286).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #45 of 327 at 152 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.
On the latest OpenStats pass, Yorkton carries a City Score standing of 43% (rank #286 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 4 points below the Saskatchewan peer average across 16 ranked cities. Within Saskatchewan, Yorkton ranks #11 of 16 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is seismic hazard (standing 91%, rank #313 of 343, raw score 0.019). The weakest observed pillar is drinking-water hardness (standing 2%, rank #7 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 279 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Yorkton. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #286 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #7
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Rank #276
Rank #45
Rank #313
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Yorkton 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 Yorkton.
Yorkton branch telling pioneer and agricultural stories, host site for the Threshermen's Show each August.
Downtown arts address for the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery, arts council, and film festival offices.
Tourism Yorkton describes the Yorkton Film Festival as the longest-running film festival in North America, focused on Canadian shorts.
Where Yorkton sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Yorkton greets visitors with Where Good Things Happen on the city homepage and doubles down with Yorkton Happens Here across Gallagher Centre pages. That slogan is earned geographically: the Gallagher Centre on Broadway Street West is eastern Saskatchewan's bundled address for arena nights, curling, the Access Communications Water Park, Flexihall sport, conventions, and exhibition grounds. If a regional event needs a roof, locals usually mean the Gallagher before they finish the sentence, whether the night is hockey, a trade show, or a wedding package tour.
Culture has a second downtown coordinate at the Godfrey Dean Cultural Centre, home to the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery plus offices for the Yorkton Arts Council and the Yorkton Film Festival. Tourism copy still claims the film festival as the longest-running in North America, a spring week of Canadian short films that puts Yorkton on a national arts calendar without asking residents to pretend they live in a larger metro. September brings Sunflower, a huge unjuried show and sale at the Gallagher; June brings the Painted Hand PowWow; August revives working heritage at the Western Development Museum's Threshermen's Show.
Anne Portnuff Theatre at Yorkton Regional High School covers live performance nights when the arts council's concert series is in season. Civic notices can be as ordinary as a water-survey scam advisory or as formal as State of the City on the municipal calendar. The hometown voice is event-venue practical: Gallagher for the big room, Godfrey Dean for the arts block, and a parkland city that expects the calendar to do real work year-round.
Drawn from City of Yorkton, City of Yorkton, Tourism Yorkton.
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 Yorkton 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
The Globe and Mail
2023 data partnership with Environics Analytics ranking 439 Canadian communities on ten livability categories.
Single edition · 2023
Only one published edition places Yorkton 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.
Gallagher Centre pages repeat the municipal slogan Yorkton Happens Here for sports, rentals, and swimming.
Tourism Yorkton describes the Yorkton Film Festival as the longest-running film festival in North America, focused on Canadian shorts.
Sunflower at the Gallagher Centre is billed as Saskatchewan's largest unjuried arts and crafts show and sale.
The Godfrey Dean Art Gallery is presented as the only professionally operated public gallery within about 200 km of Yorkton.
Eastern Saskatchewan's combined arena, water park, curling, Flexihall, and convention campus on Broadway Street West.
Downtown arts address for the Godfrey Dean Art Gallery, arts council, and film festival offices.
Yorkton branch telling pioneer and agricultural stories, host site for the Threshermen's Show each August.
Live performance venue at Yorkton Regional High School used for arts council concert nights.
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