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Carleton Place drinking water hardness is 108 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Carleton Place

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#108

#108 of 343

54% City Score XP

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5/8 pillars on the board

54%#108

Decade trail

Carleton Place 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.

Carleton Place 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
108 mg/L
moderately hard
pH
7.1
Lead
0.4 μg/L

Full Carleton Place water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Stratford · vs WoodstockHardness guide

Watershed to tap · system map

How Carleton Place's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Carleton Place 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 Carleton Place

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

How Carleton Place scores

Carleton Place sits at City Score rank #108 with a standing of 54%, 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. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.

Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #54 of 327 at 139 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.

In the 2025 City Score edition, Carleton Place carries a City Score standing of 54% (rank #108 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 1 points above the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Carleton Place ranks #55 of 123 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 91%, rank #32 of 343, raw score 1000). The weakest observed pillar is indoor radon (standing 17%, rank #54 of 327).

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 108 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Carleton Place. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#108
Arena rank (of 343)
54%
City Score
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Pillars observed

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #108 of 343

City Score

5/8 pillars · main XP bar

54%#108
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #289

65%
Building permits

No placement

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Internet

Rank #32

91%
Radon

Rank #54

17%
Hazards

Rank #69

20%
Property tax

No placement

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Carleton Place 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.

Carleton Place in brief

Carleton Place is town in Eastern Ontario, Canada, in Lanark County, about 55 kilometres (34 mi) west of downtown Ottawa. The name traces to Carleton Place (a name by local merchant Alexander Morris),.

Mills, mines, or farm-service industries rewrote the skyline every couple of decades. Walk the older blocks and you can still spot seams between eras.

Carleton Place service economy ties to county seats, highway corridors, and regional employers that keep main street businesses busy through the year. On OpenStats City Score, Carleton Place ranks 111 of 343. Municipal recreation, parks, trails, and utility pages remain the best live guide to how Carleton Place 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 Carleton Place 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 Carleton Place. 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 Carleton Place.

Drawn from Municipality of Carleton Place, 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 Carleton Place

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 Carleton Place 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

#32
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

#108
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.54

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

#289
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 108

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

#54
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 138.7

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

#39
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.026995223921921507

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

#69
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.113

Worth knowing in Carleton Place

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Places to see

Carleton Place downtown

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