Belleville - Quinte West, Ontario
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Belleville - Quinte West

Belleville - Quinte West drinking water hardness is 279 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Belleville - Quinte West

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46XP
#238

#238 of 343

46% City Score XP

Surface
City Score XP

7/8 pillars on the board

46%#238

Decade trail

Belleville - Quinte West 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.

Belleville - Quinte West 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
279 mg/L
very hard
pH
7.7
Lead
0.7 μg/L

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Watershed to tap · system map

How Belleville - Quinte West's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Belleville - Quinte West 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 Belleville - Quinte West

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

How Belleville - Quinte West scores

Belleville - Quinte West sits at City Score rank #238 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: indoor radon rank #175 of 327 at 101 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #19 of 57 (15.29 mill rate). 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, Belleville - Quinte West carries a City Score standing of 46% (rank #238 of 343) with 7 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 7 points below the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Belleville - Quinte West ranks #97 of 123 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is population growth (standing 79%, rank #74 of 343, +2.2% annual growth). The weakest observed pillar is drinking-water hardness (standing 2%, rank #6 of 343). Crime severity uses the Statistics Canada police-service CSI mapped to Belleville-Quinte West, Ontario (table 35100026), not a regional proxy.

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 279 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Belleville - Quinte West. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#238
Arena rank (of 343)
46%
City Score
7
Pillars observed

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #238 of 343

City Score

7/8 pillars · main XP bar

46%#238
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #6

4%
Building permits

No placement

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Internet

Rank #191

45%
Radon

Rank #175

54%
Hazards

Rank #132

38%
Property tax

Rank #19

33%

Belleville - Quinte West 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

Surface water supply

Hometown notes

City profile

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

Belleville - Quinte West in brief

Belleville and Quinte West share the Bay of Quinte the way neighbours share a driveway. In Belleville, the Moira River still organizes a walk: Parrott Riverfront Trail hugs the river near downtown, Riverside Park Trail keeps going along the water, and Zwick's Park puts a lit loop right on the bay. Kiwanis Bayshore Trail follows the north shore past marina and launch points, the sort of after-supper route people mean when they say they are heading by the Bay. Glanmore National Historic Site sits on the civic map as the Victorian house stop, while Discover Belleville keeps summer calendars busy with dates like the Belleville Caribbean Festival downtown. Belleville Senators nights give the hockey crowd its own compass.

A few minutes west, Quinte West sells itself as A Natural Attraction and backs the line with water and wings. Trenton holds City Hall and Trent Port Marina. Frankford still gets named for ward parties and Frankford Tourist Park. The Trent-Severn Waterway meets the bay here, with a seasonal Lock 1 visitor kiosk on Trenton-Frankford Road for boaters who treat the corridor as a highway. 8 Wing CFB Trenton and the National Air Force Museum of Canada keep aviation in everyday place-talk; Fusion Fest is the newer waterfront festival pitch on the municipal calendar.

OpenStats puts the combined Belleville - Quinte West placement at City Score rank 183 of 343 for 2026. Rankings aside, the hometown read is Moira trails, bay loops, Trent locks, and a base town that never pretends the runway is far away.

Drawn from City of Belleville trails, City of Belleville, City of Quinte West visit, City of Quinte West, Discover Belleville, Belleville Intelligencer.

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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OpenStats City Score

Rankings for Belleville - Quinte West

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 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

#191
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 396.2

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

#238
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.46

Safety · OpenStats

OpenStats Crime Severity Index

OpenStats

Communities ranked by Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index at police-service grain (Tables 35-10-0026-01 and 35-10-0063-01 for British Columbia). Rank 1 is highest CSI (worse). Cities without a police-service match are not listed; the safety pillar scores at median standing on City Score. Hometown pages name the police service and reference year.

CSI from Belleville-Quinte West, Ontario (2025, Table 35-10-0026-01).

10 editions · 2016–2025

#66
Latest · 2025 · of 102
Score 63.06

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

#175
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 101.1

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

#74
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.02202800610806069

Property tax · OpenStats

OpenStats Residential Mill Rates

OpenStats

Municipalities ranked by residential mill rate (education levies are shown on property-tax pages but not added here). Rank 1 is the highest rate. Atlas seed and published municipal rows anchor the panel; off-panel tax years (e.g. 2026) carry across 2016–2025; remaining gaps follow provincial paths.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#19
Latest · 2025 · of 57
Score 15.29

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

#132
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.059

Livability

Maclean's Best Communities

Maclean's

Successor-style municipal livability ranking published by Maclean's for 2019 and 2021 (no 2020 edition).

Single edition · 2021

#4
Published · 2021 · of 415

Only one published edition places Belleville - Quinte West in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Worth knowing in Belleville - Quinte West

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

  • Belleville trail pages treat the Moira River and Bay of Quinte as a paired walking network, from Parrott Riverfront Trail to Zwick's Park.

    City of Belleville

  • Quinte West tourism copy centres 8 Wing CFB Trenton and the National Air Force Museum of Canada as the military-aviation identity.

    City of Quinte West

  • A seasonal Lock 1 visitor kiosk on the Trent-Severn Waterway opens Victoria Day to Labour Day for corridor travellers.

    City of Quinte West

  • Discover Belleville lists the Belleville Caribbean Festival as a downtown August date on the events calendar.

    Discover Belleville

Places to see

Zwick's Park

A bayfront loop with picnic space, fields, and an East Zwick's off-leash dog park. Locals treat Zwicks as the easy Bay of Quinte walk when they want water without leaving town.

National Air Force Museum of Canada

Quinte West's visit pages point visitors here when they want the aviation story beside 8 Wing CFB Trenton. It is the indoor counterpart to a community that still hears aircraft as background noise.

Glanmore National Historic Site

Belleville's civic site list flags Glanmore as the Victorian house museum stop. It is the indoor history beat when the trails are iced over.

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