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Fort Frances drinking water hardness is 202 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Fort Frances

Arena rank #136 of 172 · 53% XP

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7/8 pillars on the board

53%#136

Fort Frances 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 Frances drinking water

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

Hardness
202 mg/L
very hard
pH
7
Lead
0.2 μg/L

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Local numbers for Fort Frances

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

How Fort Frances scores

Fort Frances sits at City Score rank #136 with a standing of 53%, 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 #46 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #105 of 343 at 202 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #121 of 343 (11.09 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

#136
Arena rank (of 172)
53%
City Score
7
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Arena rank #136 of 172

City Score

7/8 pillars · main XP bar

53%#136
Drinking water

Rank #124

36%
Building permits

Rank #46

87%
Internet

Rank #48

86%
Radon

Rank #105

31%
Hazards

No placement

Property tax

Rank #121

35%

Achievements

Direct municipal reading

Hometown notes

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Earlier years: 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023

Fort Frances in brief

Fort Frances lands on the Ontario map as a place people still call home.

Fort days still show up in heritage walks and local school projects. Festivals and street names carry pieces of that plotline into the present.

Fort Frances service economy ties to county seats, highway corridors, and regional employers that keep main street businesses busy through the year. On OpenStats City Score, Fort Frances ranks 136 of 7. Municipal recreation, parks, trails, and utility pages remain the best live guide to how Fort Frances 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 Frances 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 Frances. 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 Frances.

Drawn from Municipality of Fort Frances, 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 Frances

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

#48
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 642

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

#46
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 800687888

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

#136
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.528

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

#261
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

#124
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 202

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

#105
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 202

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

#328
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score -0.009505208333333333

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

#121
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 11.08689309418859

Worth knowing in Fort Frances

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Fort Frances downtown

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