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Fort Erie drinking water hardness is 135 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Fort Erie

Arena rank #150 of 172 · 52% XP

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7/8 pillars on the board

52%#150

Fort Erie 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.

Fort Erie drinking water

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Hardness, pH, and lead from municipal reports on the OpenStats water atlas.

Hardness
135 mg/L
hard
pH
6.8
Lead
0.7 μg/L

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Local numbers for Fort Erie

Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Fort Erie.

How Fort Erie scores

Fort Erie sits at City Score rank #150 with a standing of 52%, 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 #259 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #64 of 343 at 235 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #292 of 343 (7.85 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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52%#150
Drinking water

Rank #242

71%
Building permits

Rank #259

25%
Internet

Rank #155

55%
Radon

Rank #64

19%
Hazards

No placement

Property tax

Rank #292

85%

Achievements

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Hometown notes

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Fort Erie in brief

Fort Erie orients around Niagara River in Ontario.

Trading posts and early forts left fingerprints on street names and museum displays. Walk the older blocks and you can still spot seams between eras.

Agriculture, forestry, tourism, and public-sector jobs still mix on the local tax roll the way many Ontario towns do. On OpenStats City Score, Fort Erie ranks 150 of 7. Municipal recreation, parks, trails, and utility pages remain the best live guide to how Fort Erie 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 Fort Erie 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 Fort Erie. 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 Fort Erie. 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 Fort Erie.

Drawn from Municipality of Fort Erie, 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 Fort Erie

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 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

#155
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 458.1

Construction · OpenStats

OpenStats Building Permit Value

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

#259
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 278352585

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). 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

#150
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.521

Safety · OpenStats

OpenStats Crime Severity Index

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

#260
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 57.17

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

#242
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 135

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

#64
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 235

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

#111
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.01707603617387503

Property tax · OpenStats

OpenStats Residential Mill Rates

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

#292
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 7.84936842550153

Worth knowing in Fort Erie

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Niagara River

Niagara River shapes how Fort Erie talks about geography, recreation, and seasonal flooding or drought planning.

Fort Erie downtown

Historic main street blocks, local shops, and civic buildings remain the walking-tour version of Fort Erie.

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