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Brockville drinking water hardness is 257 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#7 of 343
69% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Brockville 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.
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Hardness, pH, and lead from municipal reports on the OpenStats water atlas.
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Source, treatment, and distribution for Brockville from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Brockville.
Brockville sits at City Score rank #7 with a standing of 69%, 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 #72 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #311 of 343 at 57 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #224 of 343 (8.95 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
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Published residential mill-rate context for Brockville.
The pedestrian tunnel at the Blockhouse Island entrance, promoted as Canada's first railway tunnel and Brockville's top free attraction.
West-end beach and campground on King Street West with summer lifeguards and a canteen. It is the swim-and-picnic alternative
Municipal parks pages call the restored Brockville Railway Tunnel the city's most popular attraction, open mid-April to Thanksgiving.
Where Brockville sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Brockville greets itself as the City of the 1000 Islands, and the St. Lawrence River does the rest of the explaining. Blockhouse Island is the downtown peninsula people mean when they say they are heading to the water: municipal harbour on the inside, ship watching on the outside, fireworks and Tall Ships dates on the calendar. At the park entrance sits the Brockville Railway Tunnel, Canada's first railway tunnel and still the free attraction City pages call the top draw, open mid-spring through Thanksgiving. River webcams from Blockhouse Island and City Hall keep the current in view even on desk days.
The Brock Trail ties the waterfront together for roughly ten paved kilometres, starting near Armagh S. Price Park on Blockhouse Island Parkway, running west along the shore, then following Buell's Creek north. St. Lawrence Park holds the west-end beach and campground; Centeen Park anchors the east end for divers and trail finishers; Hardy Park and Rotary Park cover concerts, Ribfest, splash pad, and winter rink. River of Lights turns Blockhouse Island into the December night drive, with Aquatarium's holiday train as the bonus lap. Recorder fronts lately lead with Bartholomew Street reconstruction between King Street and James Street, the kind of corridor file that sits beside Civic Holiday schedules.
OpenStats places Brockville at City Score rank 79 of 125 for 2026. Rankings aside, the hometown read is tunnel cool air in July, Blockhouse Island for every parade that needs water behind it, and a trail that lets you cross town without arguing with King Street traffic.
Drawn from City of Brockville, Parks and Trails, River of Lights, Brockville Recorder & Times.
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.
Connectivity · OpenStats
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
Construction · OpenStats
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
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). 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
Safety · OpenStats
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
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
Property tax · OpenStats
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
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.
City home branding welcomes visitors to the City of the 1000 Islands and posts live river webcams from Blockhouse Island and City Hall.
Municipal parks pages call the restored Brockville Railway Tunnel the city's most popular attraction, open mid-April to Thanksgiving.
The Brock Trail is described as about 10 km of paved pathway linking waterfront parks and Buell's Creek green space.
River of Lights runs as a free holiday light-and-sound show on Blockhouse Island Parkway.
The pedestrian tunnel at the Blockhouse Island entrance, promoted as Canada's first railway tunnel and Brockville's top free attraction. Summer heat makes the cool walk a local habit.
Downtown peninsula for harbour life, cruise departures, festivals, and December's River of Lights. If the event needs a St. Lawrence backdrop, it usually lands here.
West-end beach and campground on King Street West with summer lifeguards and a canteen. It is the swim-and-picnic alternative when Blockhouse Island is full of festival fencing.
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