Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador
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Conception Bay South

Conception Bay South drinking water hardness is 238 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Conception Bay South

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46XP
#232

#232 of 343

46% City Score XP

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City Score XP

5/8 pillars on the board

46%#232

Decade trail

Conception Bay South 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.

Conception Bay South 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
238 mg/L
very hard
pH
8.1
Lead
0.6 μg/L

Full Conception Bay South water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Stephenville · vs GanderHardness guide

Watershed to tap · system map

How Conception Bay South's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Conception Bay South 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 Conception Bay South

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

How Conception Bay South scores

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Conception Bay South sits at City Score rank #232 with a standing of 46%, 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 14 places versus 2022 (#218 → #232).

Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #192 of 327 at 95 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, Conception Bay South carries a City Score standing of 46% (rank #232 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 6 points below the Newfoundland and Labrador peer average across 15 ranked cities. Within Newfoundland and Labrador, Conception Bay South ranks #13 of 15 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is seismic hazard (standing 73%, rank #252 of 343, raw score 0.034). The weakest observed pillar is drinking-water hardness (standing 17%, rank #58 of 343).

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 238 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Conception Bay South. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#232
Arena rank (of 343)
46%
City Score
5
Pillars observed
Dropping−14
vs 2022
#218 → #232

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #232 of 343

City Score

5/8 pillars · main XP bar

46%#232
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #58

17%
Building permits

No placement

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Internet

Rank #211

39%
Radon

Rank #192

59%
Hazards

Rank #252

73%
Property tax

No placement

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Conception Bay South 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.

Conception Bay South in brief

Conception Bay South is part of the Newfoundland and Labrador civic atlas on OpenStats.

Conception Bay South grew the familiar Canadian way: schools, rinks, churches, and a main street that still anchors weekends. Walk the older blocks and you can still spot seams between eras.

Conception Bay South service economy ties to county seats, highway corridors, and regional employers that keep main street businesses busy through the year. On OpenStats City Score, Conception Bay South ranks 234 of 343. Municipal recreation, parks, trails, and utility pages remain the best live guide to how Conception Bay South 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 Conception Bay South 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 Conception Bay South. 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 Conception Bay South.

Drawn from Municipality of Conception Bay South, 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.

0%25%50%75%100%2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Rankings for Conception Bay South

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 Conception Bay South 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

#211
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 315.6

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

#232
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.464

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

#58
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 238

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

#192
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 94.5

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

#231
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.006160511796364621

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

#252
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.034

Worth knowing in Conception Bay South

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Places to see

Conception Bay South downtown

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