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Fredericton

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

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Fredericton

Census_metropolitan_area109k pop
49XP
#197

#197 of 343

49% City Score XP

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City Score XP

6/8 pillars on the board

49%#197

Decade trail

Fredericton packs 6 of eight open-data pillars into its composite standing. Tap a rival below to see how the hometown stacks up head-to-head.

Fredericton drinking water

Direct municipal reading

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

Hardness
108 mg/L
moderately hard
pH
7.8
Lead
0 μg/L

Full Fredericton water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Woodstock · vs RothesayHardness guide

Watershed to tap · system map

How Fredericton's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Fredericton 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 Fredericton

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

How Fredericton scores

Fredericton sits at City Score rank #197 with a standing of 49%, from 6 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 #39 of 327 at 154 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, Fredericton carries a City Score standing of 49% (rank #197 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 1 points above the New Brunswick peer average across 16 ranked cities. Within New Brunswick, Fredericton ranks #7 of 16 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is drinking-water hardness (standing 84%, rank #288 of 343, raw score 108). The weakest observed pillar is indoor radon (standing 12%, rank #39 of 327). Crime severity uses the Statistics Canada police-service CSI mapped to Fredericton, New Brunswick (table 35100026), not a regional proxy.

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

#197
Arena rank (of 343)
49%
City Score
6
Pillars observed

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #197 of 343

City Score

6/8 pillars · main XP bar

49%#197
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #288

89%
Building permits

No placement

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Internet

Rank #212

38%
Radon

Rank #39

12%
Hazards

Rank #95

28%
Property tax

No placement

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Fredericton 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

Direct municipal readingGroundwater supply

In the news

Data desk

Hometown notes

City profile

Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.

Fredericton in brief

Fredericton orients to the Wolastoq, also called the Saint John River, the way other capitals orient to a legislature lawn. Tourism copy puts the river at the heart of the Capital Region, and City recreation lists Wolastoq Watershed Paddling Trails beside arenas and pools. Downtown, Officers' Square carries the free summer concert series that fills evening calendars without a ticket booth argument. Guided Heritage Walking Tours keep the Loyalist and civic street story on the City's featured list. UNB sits in the Capital Region frame as the campus shorthand everyone already uses.

Day-to-day recreation spreads past the square. Nashwaaksis Fieldhouse is the named indoor facility on the City recreation page, Carleton Park shows up in the parks directory, and tourism boasts a trail network measured in more than 120 kilometres. The Nashwaak enters the same regional map as a named tributary. When people talk craft beer here, they mean the Fredericton Taproom Trail, a Capital Region Tourism route through local taprooms rather than a single downtown patio. Beaverbrook appears on City parks pages as part of the arts-and-gallery corridor locals already know.

Civic life has its own verbs. Engage Fredericton is the public-engagement platform for projects and consultations. Fredericton Transit covers the commute vocabulary. Housing-enabling infrastructure announcements and community-safety operations still lead City news the same week Officers' Square books another concert. On the OpenStats City Score for 2025, Fredericton sits at rank 22 of 343. Rankings aside, the hometown read is a capital that says Wolastoq first, walks Officers' Square in summer, and treats the Taproom Trail as local geography.

Drawn from City of Fredericton, City of Fredericton recreation, Fredericton Capital Region Tourism, CBC New Brunswick.

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
OpenStats City Score

Rankings for Fredericton

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 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

#212
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 313.4

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

#197
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.485

Safety · OpenStats

OpenStats Crime Severity Index

OpenStats

Communities ranked by Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index at police-service grain (Tables 35-10-0026-01 and 35-10-0063-01 for British Columbia). Rank 1 is highest CSI (worse). Cities without a police-service match are not listed; the safety pillar scores at median standing on City Score. Hometown pages name the police service and reference year.

CSI from Fredericton, New Brunswick (2025, Table 35-10-0026-01).

5 editions · 2021–2025

#43
Latest · 2025 · of 102
Score 80.52

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

#288
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

#39
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 154.2

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

#72
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.02230712349026374

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

#95
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.085

Livability

Globe and Mail Most Livable Cities

The Globe and Mail

2023 data partnership with Environics Analytics ranking 439 Canadian communities on ten livability categories.

Single edition · 2023

#43
Published · 2023 · of 439

Only one published edition places Fredericton in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Livability

Maclean's Best Communities

Maclean's

Successor-style municipal livability ranking published by Maclean's for 2019 and 2021 (no 2020 edition).

Single edition · 2021

#2
Published · 2021 · of 415

Only one published edition places Fredericton in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Worth knowing in Fredericton

Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.

Places to see

Officers' Square

Downtown square that carries the free summer concert series. It is the evening civic lawn when the capital wants music without a ticket line.

Wolastoq Watershed Paddling Trails

City recreation listing for paddling on the river system tourism calls the heart of the Capital Region. Locals treat the Wolastoq as everyday geography, not only a postcard.

Nashwaaksis Fieldhouse

Named recreation facility on the City recreation page. It gives the Nashwaaksis side of town an indoor landmark beside the river trail talk.

Carleton Park

Park listed in the municipal parks and trails directory. One of the concrete green names behind the Capital Region's long trail network claim.

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