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Bay Roberts drinking water hardness is 125 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Bay Roberts

Arena rank #233 of 172 · 46% XP

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7/8 pillars on the board

46%#233

Bay Roberts packs 7 of eight open-data pillars into its composite standing. Tap a rival below to see how the hometown stacks up head-to-head.

Bay Roberts drinking water

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Hardness, pH, and lead from municipal reports on the OpenStats water atlas.

Hardness
125 mg/L
hard
pH
7.8
Lead
0.5 μg/L

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Local numbers for Bay Roberts

Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Bay Roberts.

How Bay Roberts scores

Bay Roberts sits at City Score rank #233 with a standing of 46%, 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. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.

Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #332 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #287 of 343 at 75 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #134 of 343 (10.75 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

#233
Arena rank (of 172)
46%
City Score
7
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Arena rank #233 of 172

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7/8 pillars · main XP bar

46%#233
Drinking water

Rank #260

76%
Building permits

Rank #332

3%
Internet

Rank #152

56%
Radon

Rank #287

84%
Hazards

No placement

Property tax

Rank #134

39%

Achievements

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Hometown notes

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Earlier years: 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023

Bay Roberts in brief

Bay Roberts lands on the Newfoundland and Labrador map as a place people still call home.

Decades of ordinary town-building followed: recreation centres, county fairs, and service jobs tied to the wider region. Walk the older blocks and you can still spot seams between eras.

Agriculture, forestry, tourism, and public-sector jobs still mix on the local tax roll the way many Newfoundland and Labrador towns do. On OpenStats City Score, Bay Roberts ranks 233 of 7. Municipal recreation, parks, trails, and utility pages remain the best live guide to how Bay Roberts 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 Bay Roberts 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 Bay Roberts. 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 Bay Roberts.

Drawn from Municipality of Bay Roberts, CBC Newfoundland and Labrador.

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 Bay Roberts

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 Broadband Download Speeds

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

#152
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 462.6

Construction · OpenStats

OpenStats Building Permit Value

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

#332
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 71404590

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). 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

#233
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.458

Safety · OpenStats

OpenStats Crime Severity Index

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

#153
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 88.74

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

#260
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 125

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

#287
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 75

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

#222
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.006598586017282011

Property tax · OpenStats

OpenStats Residential Mill Rates

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

#134
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 10.750834252987346

Worth knowing in Bay Roberts

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Bay Roberts downtown

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