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Amherstburg drinking water hardness is 110 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Amherstburg

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53XP
#124

#124 of 343

53% City Score XP

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5/8 pillars on the board

53%#124

Decade trail

Amherstburg 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.

Amherstburg drinking water

Regional estimate from nearest municipal sample

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.

Hardness
110 mg/L
moderately hard
pH
6.8
Lead
0.6 μg/L

Full Amherstburg water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Sarnia · vs BrantfordHardness guide

Watershed to tap · system map

How Amherstburg's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Amherstburg from municipal and provincial water records. Open the animated map for the full watershed-to-tap diagram — no nested topic navigation here.

Local numbers for Amherstburg

Permits, tax, internet, radon, hazards, drinking water, and sports rankings where a CHL hometown applies.

How Amherstburg scores

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Amherstburg sits at City Score rank #124 with a standing of 53%, 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. Dropping 50 places versus 2022 (#74 → #124).

Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #32 of 327 at 156 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, Amherstburg carries a City Score standing of 53% (rank #124 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 0 points above the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Amherstburg ranks #63 of 123 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 92%, rank #28 of 343, raw score 1000). The weakest observed pillar is indoor radon (standing 10%, rank #32 of 327).

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 110 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Amherstburg. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#124
Arena rank (of 343)
53%
City Score
5
Pillars observed
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vs 2022
#74 → #124

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #124 of 343

City Score

5/8 pillars · main XP bar

53%#124
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #285

52%
Building permits

No placement

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Internet

Rank #28

92%
Radon

Rank #32

10%
Hazards

Rank #253

74%
Property tax

No placement

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Amherstburg pillar standing

Eight equal-weight City Score pillars, 2025 panel year.

TaxPermitsNetRadonWaterHazardsGrowthCrime

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

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Hometown notes

City profile

Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.

Amherstburg in brief

Amherstburg lands on the Ontario map as a place people still call home.

Fort days still show up in heritage walks and local school projects. Festivals and street names carry pieces of that plotline into the present.

Amherstburg service economy ties to county seats, highway corridors, and regional employers that keep main street businesses busy through the year. On OpenStats City Score, Amherstburg ranks 218 of 343. Municipal recreation, parks, trails, and utility pages remain the best live guide to how Amherstburg explains itself today.

Permits, mill rates, broadband, radon, hazards, and water quality may show measured values, regional estimates, or empty states until a verified source is linked. That is the same honest pattern OpenStats uses for smaller places already in the corpus, and it keeps Amherstburg comparable on the hometown board without inventing numbers. Seasonal recreation programming, winter maintenance, and summer festival calendars still fill the municipal news feed most years. Library branches, arena ice, and aquatics schedules are the practical anchors families check before planning a weekend in Amherstburg. Seasonal recreation programming, winter maintenance, and summer festival calendars still fill the municipal news feed most years. Library branches, arena ice, and aquatics schedules are the practical anchors families check before planning a weekend in Amherstburg. Seasonal recreation programming, winter maintenance, and summer festival calendars still fill the municipal news feed most years. Library branches, arena ice, and aquatics schedules are the practical anchors families check before planning a weekend in Amherstburg.

Drawn from Municipality of Amherstburg, CBC Toronto / Ontario.

City Score over time

City Score from 2016–2025 across eight open-data pillars. Individual study placements are listed in the panels below.

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Rankings for Amherstburg

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

Crime severity not placed

Statistics Canada does not publish a police-service Crime Severity Index that OpenStats can match to Amherstburg 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 Broadband Download Speeds

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

#28
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 1000

Composite · OpenStats

OpenStats City Score

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

#124
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.53

Water · OpenStats

OpenStats Drinking Water Hardness

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

#285
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 110

Health · OpenStats

OpenStats Highest Indoor Radon

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

#32
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 156.4

Growth · OpenStats

OpenStats Population Growth

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

#185
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.009912258159256948

Hazards · OpenStats

OpenStats Seismic Hazard (PGA)

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

#253
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.034

Worth knowing in Amherstburg

Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.

Places to see

Amherstburg downtown

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