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Hawkesbury drinking water hardness is 271 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#203 of 343
49% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Hawkesbury 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 Hawkesbury from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Hawkesbury.
Hawkesbury sits at City Score rank #203 with a standing of 49%, 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 71 places versus 2022 (#274 → #203).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #203 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #143 of 343 at 171 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #102 of 343 (11.46 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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Published residential mill-rate context for Hawkesbury.
Waterfront park with Maison de l'Île, the Franco-Ontarian monument, pétanque, and a boat launch. It is the clearest place to show someone
East-end park with baseball, a boat launch, and a fenced dog park. It shares the river recreation beat with Confederation Park.
Pioneers' Place at 351 Main Street East has two outdoor stages for Town summer programming.
Where Hawkesbury sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Hawkesbury sits on the Ottawa River in Prescott and Russell, a bilingual town that still reads the water first. Town history puts early sawmills on the islands, then pulp and paper, then the hard closures that remade the job market after Canadian International Paper shut in 1983. The Pearly Bridge to Grenville tied the Ontario and Quebec sides into one regional shopping and services beat. Chenail Island carries a tougher memory too: mid-century Carillon dam work meant a neighbourhood had to leave, and growth pushed south into new streets and industrial land.
Today the waterfront is where people send visitors. Confederation Park at 1 John Street holds Maison de l'Île, the Franco-Ontarian monument, pétanque lanes, and a boat launch that needs a day or seasonal vignette. Cyr-de-LaSalle Park adds another launch plus a fenced dog park. Downtown, Pioneers' Place on Main Street East runs outdoor stages for summer nights: Time For Art with the Club Optimiste de Hawkesbury, Yvon and His Guests, and the Town's Hawkesbury Country-Blues Festival. The Review covers the same corridor, from Ottawa River marine patrols to complex walk rates.
Locals talk about Main Street, the river, and the bridge more than any brochure slogan. Robert Hartley Sports Complex anchors indoor recreation while parks from Cadieux to Old Mill keep splash pads and outdoor rinks on the calendar. Summer programming at Pioneers' Place keeps Main Street East busy after the river day ends. On OpenStats City Score for 2026, Hawkesbury sits at rank 90 of 125. The hometown framing stays Ottawa River and bilingual downtown first.
Drawn from Town of Hawkesbury - History, Mission and Vision, Town of Hawkesbury - Parks and Outdoor Rinks, Town of Hawkesbury, The Review.
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.
Confederation Park lists Maison de l'Île and the Franco-Ontarian monument on the same waterfront block.
Pioneers' Place at 351 Main Street East has two outdoor stages for Town summer programming.
Municipal history credits the Pearly Bridge link to Grenville with a regional commerce boom.
Boat launches at Confederation Park and Cyr-de-LaSalle Park use day or seasonal parking vignettes.
Waterfront park with Maison de l'Île, the Franco-Ontarian monument, pétanque, and a boat launch. It is the clearest place to show someone why Hawkesbury faces the Ottawa River.
Downtown Main Street East plaza with outdoor stages and event kiosks. Summer art nights and the Country-Blues Festival land here.
East-end park with baseball, a boat launch, and a fenced dog park. It shares the river recreation beat with Confederation Park.
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