Ontario · Civic arena
Ingersoll drinking water hardness is 271 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#258 of 343
44% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Ingersoll 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.
Rivalries on deck
Hardness, pH, and lead from municipal reports on the OpenStats water atlas.
Full Ingersoll water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Kirkland Lake · vs AuroraHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Ingersoll from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Ingersoll.
Ingersoll sits at City Score rank #258 with a standing of 44%, 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 15 places versus 2022 (#273 → #258).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #217 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #144 of 343 at 171 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #63 of 343 (12.26 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #258 of 343
7/8 pillars · main XP bar
Rank #16
Rank #217
Rank #93
Rank #144
No placement
Rank #63
Achievements
Published residential mill-rate context for Ingersoll.
Year-round museum at 290 Harris Street with a recreated cheese factory, Sports Hall of Fame, blacksmith shop, and gift shop cheeses. It is
Paved local trail along Hall's Creek that stitches parkland into downtown. Easy walk or ride after a museum stop.
Centennial Park holds Canada's only cheese playground behind the museum main building.
Where Ingersoll sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Ingersoll sits in Oxford County on the Thames River, close enough to London and Woodstock for a day trip and stubborn enough to keep its own story. Town museum copy says this is a place built on cheese: cooperative factories, a mammoth wheel shipped as a marketing stunt, and Ingersoll stamped on boxes leaving for Britain. James McIntyre's cheese poems still get a smile at the Ingersoll Cheese & Agricultural Museum. Earlier still, the settlement at Oxford-on-the-Thames took the Ingersoll name in 1832 after Thomas Ingersoll's founding bargain with Simcoe.
The living landmark is Centennial Park. The cheese museum at 290 Harris Street, a kilometre north of Hwy 401 Exit 218, anchors the Oxford County Cheese Trail and doubles as the town cycling hub. Galleries hold the Ingersoll Sports Hall of Fame and Wilson Johnston woodcarvings. Out back sits Canada's only cheese playground, then the Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre, splash pad, sports fields, and Victoria Park Community Centre. The Thomas Ingersoll Trail follows Hall's Creek through more parks into downtown.
Ask someone what to show a relative and you get the museum, the trail, and a stop for local cheese in the gift shop. Fusion Youth Centre and Ingersoll Recreation keep younger calendars busy while Oxford Road construction notices remind everyone this is still a working county town off the 401. Admission at the cheese museum is by donation, which keeps a family stop easy after the 401 exit. On OpenStats City Score for 2026, Ingersoll sits at rank 52 of 125. The hometown framing stays Thames River dairy country first.
Drawn from Town of Ingersoll - About Ingersoll, Ingersoll Cheese & Agricultural Museum, Town of Ingersoll.
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.
4 editions · 2014–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
The Ingersoll Cheese & Agricultural Museum calls itself the hub of the Oxford County Cheese Trail and the town cycling hub.
Centennial Park holds Canada's only cheese playground behind the museum main building.
The Thomas Ingersoll Trail follows Hall's Creek toward downtown through a string of parks.
Museum history recounts James McIntyre as the cheese poet of Ode on the Mammoth Cheese fame.
Year-round museum at 290 Harris Street with a recreated cheese factory, Sports Hall of Fame, blacksmith shop, and gift shop cheeses. It is the practical starting point for visitors off Exit 218.
Park grounds around the museum with the cheese playground, picnic pavilion, splash pad, and path links toward Victoria Park Community Centre.
Paved local trail along Hall's Creek that stitches parkland into downtown. Easy walk or ride after a museum stop.
When Ingersoll moves in a ranking, posts new permit figures, or lands in a study, get a short note. A few sends a year, only when something changes.
No spam. Unsubscribe with one reply.
