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Kapuskasing

Kapuskasing drinking water hardness is 185 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Kapuskasing

Arena rank #221 of 172 · 47% XP

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7/8 pillars on the board

47%#221

Kapuskasing 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.

Kapuskasing drinking water

Direct municipal reading

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

Hardness
185 mg/L
very hard
pH
6.8
Lead
0.1 μg/L

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Source, treatment, and distribution path from OpenStats water atlas supply research — not invented plant names. Hardness and grade labels reflect published readings.

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Local numbers for Kapuskasing

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

How Kapuskasing scores

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Kapuskasing sits at City Score rank #221 with a standing of 47%, 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 51 places versus 2022 (#170 → #221).

Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #205 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #276 of 343 at 85 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #117 of 343 (11.18 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

#221
Arena rank (of 172)
47%
City Score
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Arena rank #221 of 172

City Score

7/8 pillars · main XP bar

47%#221
Drinking water

Rank #153

45%
Building permits

Rank #205

41%
Internet

Rank #294

15%
Radon

Rank #276

80%
Hazards

No placement

Property tax

Rank #117

34%

Achievements

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Hometown notes

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Earlier years: 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023

Kapuskasing in brief

Kapuskasing is part of the Ontario civic atlas on OpenStats.

Rail service turned a siding into a main street with grain elevators and hotels. Resource work and regional booms piled new layers on the old town plot. 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, Kapuskasing ranks 221 of 7. Municipal recreation, parks, trails, and utility pages remain the best live guide to how Kapuskasing 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 Kapuskasing 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 Kapuskasing. 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 Kapuskasing.

Drawn from Municipality of Kapuskasing, 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 Kapuskasing

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

#294
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 175.8

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

#205
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 388742535

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

#221
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.468

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

#275
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

#153
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 185

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

#276
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 85

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

#306
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score -0.003162769682593471

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

#117
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 11.18001443200346

Worth knowing in Kapuskasing

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Places to see

Kapuskasing River

Kapuskasing River shapes how Kapuskasing talks about geography, recreation, and seasonal flooding or drought planning.

Kapuskasing downtown

Historic main street blocks, local shops, and civic buildings remain the walking-tour version of Kapuskasing.

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