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Kenora drinking water hardness is 138 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#17 of 343
67% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Kenora 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 Kenora from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Kenora.
Kenora sits at City Score rank #17 with a standing of 67%, 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 (#32 → #17).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #174 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #329 of 343 at 38 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #223 of 343 (9.01 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 Kenora.
Waterfront park with Husky the Muskie and the James McMillan Tugboat facing each other. Default first stop for visitors who want the Kenora
Festival and market shoreline with Thistle Pavilion info desk, Rotary Goodwill Geyser, and the live harbourfront camera the city promotes
The Matiowski Farmers' Market runs Wednesdays under the Jarnel Contracting Pavilion in summer.
Where Kenora sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Kenora faces Lake of the Woods and talks about the lake the way other towns talk about a main street. Visit Kenora sells boating, fishing, beaches, and winter ice the same week the City posts fire-ban alerts for the northwest. The municipal land acknowledgment places the city on Treaty #3 Anishinaabe territory and names Wauzhushk Onigum, Niisaachewan, and Washagamis Bay First Nations. Tourism Kenora's line is still "neck of the woods," and the Lake of the Woods Discovery Centre on Lakeview Drive is where visitors get maps, Science North exhibits, and the outboard motor collection upstairs.
Harbourfront life sets the calendar. Winkler Harbourfront Park holds the Thistle Pavilion in summer. The Jarnel Contracting Pavilion hosts the Wednesday Matiowski Farmers' Market. Shake the Lake takes the August long weekend, Kenora Bass International fills three days of fishing, and Coney Island Music Festival turns a boat-access beach into a free stage day. McLeod Park keeps the postcard stops: Husky the Muskie across from the James McMillan Tugboat, with Loonie Bear and the Rotary Goodwill Geyser along the harbour for the obligatory photos.
Locals check the harbourfront camera when they are away and still ask whether you got your Husky shot when you visit. The Muse carries Truth and Reconciliation programming that the tourism calendar flags each September. Winter still sells skating, snowshoeing, and ice fishing once the summer harbour calendar closes. On OpenStats City Score for 2026, Kenora sits at rank 69 of 125. The hometown framing stays Lake of the Woods and the harbour first.
Drawn from Visit Kenora, City of Kenora - See and Do, City of Kenora - Tourism Information Centres, Visit Kenora - Events & Festivals.
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.
Husky the Muskie is a large muskie sculpture in McLeod Park and a city-listed landmark.
The Matiowski Farmers' Market runs Wednesdays under the Jarnel Contracting Pavilion in summer.
Kenora Bass International is billed as the largest bass fishing tournament on Lake of the Woods.
The Lake of the Woods Discovery Centre houses Tourism Kenora and permanent Science North exhibits.
Waterfront park with Husky the Muskie and the James McMillan Tugboat facing each other. Default first stop for visitors who want the Kenora photo.
Tourism hub at 931 Lakeview Drive with exhibits, Discovery Forest walk, and trip-planning help for Lake of the Woods.
Festival and market shoreline with Thistle Pavilion info desk, Rotary Goodwill Geyser, and the live harbourfront camera the city promotes year-round.
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