Kingston sits at City Score rank #243 with a standing of 46%, 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 72 places versus 2022 (#171 → #243).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #30 of 327 at 161 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #32 of 57 (13.32 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
Against the national corpus, Kingston carries a City Score standing of 46% (rank #243 of 343) with 7 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 7 points below the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Kingston ranks #98 of 123 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is drinking-water hardness (standing 80%, rank #276 of 343, raw score 114). The weakest observed pillar is indoor radon (standing 9%, rank #30 of 327). Crime severity uses the Statistics Canada police-service CSI mapped to Kingston, Ontario (table 35100026), not a regional proxy.
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 114 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Kingston. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
