Newfoundland and Labrador · Civic arena
Grand Falls-Windsor drinking water hardness is 189 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#168 of 343
51% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Grand Falls-Windsor 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 Grand Falls-Windsor from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Grand Falls-Windsor.
Grand Falls-Windsor sits at City Score rank #168 with a standing of 51%, 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. Rising 17 places versus 2022 (#185 → #168).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #82 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #327 of 343 at 39 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #185 of 343 (9.79 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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Arena rank #168 of 343
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Rank #185
Achievements
Published residential mill-rate context for Grand Falls-Windsor.
Exploits River attraction with a fishway story and underwater viewing of migrating Atlantic salmon. Pair it with the riverside grounds
Civic home for open council meetings and livestreamed sessions. It is a simple landmark for anyone learning how town business runs here.
The Salmonid Interpretation Centre sits at 100 Taylor Road on the Exploits River fishway.
Where Grand Falls-Windsor sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Grand Falls-Windsor sells itself as Perfectly Centered, and the geography backs the pitch. The town sits on the Exploits River, where the Salmonid Interpretation Centre tells the story of the Grand Falls fishway and wild Atlantic salmon climbing toward spawning water. Visitors peer into the underwater observation level, then wander the riverside grounds toward Sanger Memorial RV Park, a short hop from downtown. Town Hall at 5 High Street anchors council nights with livestreams, while summer calendars fill with Concert in the Park, Wednesday Wellness, and the Perfectly Centered Beverage Festival.
Central Newfoundland traffic still runs through the Trans-Canada Highway conversation, the corridor that ties the town to the rest of the island. Locals talk about parks programming as much as highway notices: Bouncy Castle Mondays for kids, Labour Day Parade floats for community groups, and the occasional Newfoundland Regiment Hockey Club exhibition that puts CHL hockey on the municipal board. The visitor pages keep accommodations, dining, and attractions in one place so a day trip can stretch into a riverside weekend.
What holds the hometown frame together is the river first, then the town brand. People here point newcomers to salmon season at Taylor Road, free concerts in the park, and the sense that central Newfoundland is a real place to land rather than a drive-through. The Exploits story is conservation and spectacle at once, and the municipal calendar keeps the rest of the year from going quiet. Visitor pages keep lodging, dining, and attractions in one list so a fishway afternoon can turn into a Perfectly Centered weekend without inventing a tourist myth.
Drawn from Town of Grand Falls-Windsor, Salmonid Interpretation Centre (ERMA), Town of Grand Falls-Windsor - Visitor.
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
MoneySense
Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
3 editions · 2015–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Municipal branding leans on Perfectly Centered for festivals and visitor pitching.
The Salmonid Interpretation Centre sits at 100 Taylor Road on the Exploits River fishway.
Council meets at Town Hall on High Street with public livestream options.
Concert in the Park and the Perfectly Centered Beverage Festival headline the late-summer calendar.
Exploits River attraction with a fishway story and underwater viewing of migrating Atlantic salmon. Pair it with the riverside grounds and nearby Sanger Memorial RV Park.
Municipal summer concert series featuring local musicians. It sits with Wednesday Wellness and other free family programming on the town calendar.
Civic home for open council meetings and livestreamed sessions. It is a simple landmark for anyone learning how town business runs here.
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