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Halton Hills drinking water hardness is 247 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Halton Hills

Arena rank #305 of 172 · 38% XP

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7/8 pillars on the board

38%#305

Halton Hills 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.

Halton Hills drinking water

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

Hardness
247 mg/L
very hard
pH
8
Lead
0.7 μg/L

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Local numbers for Halton Hills

Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Halton Hills.

How Halton Hills scores

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Halton Hills sits at City Score rank #305 with a standing of 38%, 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 47 places versus 2022 (#258 → #305).

Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #126 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #112 of 343 at 197 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #133 of 343 (10.82 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 (of 172)
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Arena rank #305 of 172

City Score

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38%#305
Drinking water

Rank #53

15%
Building permits

Rank #126

64%
Internet

Rank #274

20%
Radon

Rank #112

33%
Hazards

No placement

Property tax

Rank #133

39%

Achievements

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Hometown notes

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Halton Hills in brief

Halton Hills sits in Ontario. The older chapter belongs to the First Nations and treaty territories named in the regional record.

Decades of ordinary town-building followed: recreation centres, county fairs, and service jobs tied to the wider region. Ask three locals which decade mattered most and you will get three different answers, all delivered with a grin.

Agriculture, forestry, tourism, and public-sector jobs still mix on the local tax roll the way many Ontario towns do. On OpenStats City Score, Halton Hills ranks 305 of 7. Municipal recreation, parks, trails, and utility pages remain the best live guide to how Halton Hills 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 Halton Hills 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 Halton Hills. 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 Halton Hills.

Drawn from Municipality of Halton Hills, 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 Halton Hills

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

#274
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 209.6

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

#126
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 598768533

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

#305
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.383

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

#269
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

#53
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 247

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

#112
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 197

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

#307
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score -0.003299703610693376

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

#133
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 10.815659437886264

Worth knowing in Halton Hills

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Halton Hills downtown

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