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Ladysmith drinking water hardness is 85 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
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#80 of 343
56% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
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Ladysmith 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 Ladysmith from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Ladysmith.
Ladysmith sits at City Score rank #80 with a standing of 56%, 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. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #246 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #275 of 343 at 85 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #218 of 343 (9.10 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 Ladysmith.
Central seaside park with spray park, picnic shelters, and harbour views. Summer evenings often mean amphitheatre music and a walk along
Neighbourhood park with the Kinsmen playground, bike trails, and Storybook Walk. A weekday stop when Transfer Beach feels too busy.
1st Avenue was named Canada's Great Street by the Canadian Institute of Planners in 2017.
Where Ladysmith sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Ladysmith sits on Ladysmith Harbour on eastern Vancouver Island, on the unceded territory of the Stz'uminus First Nation. Town pages still lead with a view to the sea, and locals treat Transfer Beach Park as the waterfront living room: amphitheatre shows, spray-park afternoons, and the Marine Walk out past the marina toward the Government Wharf. The park itself grew on former coal-transfer ground, so the shoreline story runs from industry to picnic tables without needing a brochure pitch.
Uphill, 1st Avenue carries the heritage spine. Municipal history notes its 2017 nod as Canada's Great Street, and Ladysmith Heritage Walks stitch artifact stops and old buildings down toward the water. Brown Drive Park keeps neighbourhood play close to home, Forrest Field draws sports traffic, and the new Ladysmith Bike Park joins the Frank Jameson Community Centre and skatepark on the recreation map. Holland Creek trailheads open toward Stocking Lake and Heart Lake when people want shade instead of salt air.
Coal and logging built earlier chapters here; the Chronicle still covers a Cowichan Valley desk that ties Ladysmith to Chemainus and the wider corridor. The Naut'sa Mawt Community Accord language with Stz'uminus keeps working-together talk on the civic calendar, including shared harbour and watershed files. Let's Talk Ladysmith is how council gathers input, while Community Banner Program streets, Arboretum Park greenery near Transfer Beach Boulevard, and CUPE files fill ordinary news weeks. On OpenStats City Score for 2026, Ladysmith sits at rank 6 of 125. Ask for directions and someone will still point you to Transfer Beach first.
Drawn from Town of Ladysmith - Parks, Town of Ladysmith - History & Heritage, Town of Ladysmith, Ladysmith Chronicle.
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
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Transfer Beach Park sits on the old coal-transfer waterfront and now hosts an amphitheatre, spray park, and Marine Walk start.
1st Avenue was named Canada's Great Street by the Canadian Institute of Planners in 2017.
Ladysmith Heritage Walks link downtown buildings and artifacts to the waterfront.
The Town and Stz'uminus First Nation renew shared work under the Naut'sa Mawt Community Accord.
Central seaside park with spray park, picnic shelters, and harbour views. Summer evenings often mean amphitheatre music and a walk along the Marine Walk.
Downtown heritage corridor that locals treat as the town's front street. Heritage Walk maps start here and pull you toward the harbour.
Neighbourhood park with the Kinsmen playground, bike trails, and Storybook Walk. A weekday stop when Transfer Beach feels too busy.
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