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Courtenay drinking water hardness is 246 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#290 of 343
41% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Courtenay 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 Courtenay from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Courtenay.
Courtenay sits at City Score rank #290 with a standing of 41%, 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. Dropping 13 places versus 2022 (#277 → #290).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #309 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #188 of 343 at 146 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #293 of 343 (7.83 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 Courtenay.
Downtown museum and palaeontology centre on 4th Street with deep-time exhibits and fossil tours. It keeps science curiosity on the same
The new walking and cycling span linking downtown paths to Simms Park and the Riverway network. It is the river crossing people argue about
Tourism copy still calls Courtenay the Comox Valley's largest urban centre, which matches how Valley residents assign downtown errands.
Where Courtenay sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Courtenay is the Comox Valley's largest urban centre, the place Experience Comox Valley describes when it lines Courtenay up with seaside Comox and former coal-town Cumberland. Locals talk Downtown Courtenay and the Courtenay River in the same breath. The new 6th Street Active Transportation Bridge now links 6th Street to Simms Millennium Park for walkers and cyclists, tying into the Courtenay Riverway path and giving the river a proper pedestrian crossing that is not the busy 5th Street Bridge.
Riverfront work is the civic story of the decade. Simms Summer Concerts are back on Sunday evenings at Simms Park, lawn chairs pointed at the water. Across the bank, the Anderton Riverbank Restoration is reshaping the west shore from near 5th Street toward Riverside Park, opposite the Florence Filberg Centre. Lewis Centre runs the recreation desk, Sid Williams Theatre holds the stage nights, and the Courtenay and District Museum on 4th Street keeps the Elasmosaur and fossil-tour crowd in the downtown mix. Native Sons Hall and The LINC Youth Centre round out the booking map.
East Courtenay is planning Fire Hall #2 at the Waters Place training grounds, while Bill Moore Park and Dogwood Park are in the concept-feedback queue. The Comox Valley Record covers CVRD recreation debates and Area B politics that still shape life inside city limits, including outdoor-pool talk. Stage 3 watering restrictions on the Comox Valley water system are summer background noise. The hometown tell is whether you cross at 6th Street now, whether Simms has a band this Sunday, and whether Downtown Courtenay feels like the Valley's main street.
Drawn from City of Courtenay, City of Courtenay, Experience Comox Valley, Comox Valley Record.
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
Maclean's
Successor-style municipal livability ranking published by Maclean's for 2019 and 2021 (no 2020 edition).
Single edition · 2021
Only one published edition places Courtenay in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
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.
Tourism copy still calls Courtenay the Comox Valley's largest urban centre, which matches how Valley residents assign downtown errands.
The 6th Street Active Transportation Bridge opened in 2026 as a four-metre cable-stayed crossing for walking and cycling to Simms Park.
Anderton Riverbank Restoration runs about 320 metres along the Courtenay River opposite the Florence Filberg Centre.
The Courtenay and District Museum advertises an Elasmosaur skeleton and fossil tours, a paleontology flex unusual for a mid-Island downtown.
Riverfront park at the end of the new 6th Street bridge, home to free Sunday summer concerts. Bring a chair; the Courtenay River is the backdrop.
The new walking and cycling span linking downtown paths to Simms Park and the Riverway network. It is the river crossing people argue about in a good way.
Downtown museum and palaeontology centre on 4th Street with deep-time exhibits and fossil tours. It keeps science curiosity on the same street grid as Sid Williams Theatre.
Municipal recreation and culture facility facing the Anderton riverbank project. It is a landmark for finding Riverside Park from downtown.
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