New Brunswick · Civic arena
Moncton drinking water hardness is 277 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
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#124 of 343
53% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Moncton 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 Moncton from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Moncton.
Moncton sits at City Score rank #124 with a standing of 53%, 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 34 places versus 2022 (#158 → #124).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #135 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #284 of 343 at 77 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #213 of 343 (9.25 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 Moncton.
Downtown's appointed seat for the tidal bore. The amphitheatre faces the Petitcodiac beside Treitz House, with Main Street and the market
The classic Moncton roadside marvel on Mountain Road. Pair it with Magnetic Hill Zoo if the day is built for out-of-town guests.
Riverfront Park offers about five kilometres of trail along the Petitcodiac and connects downtown Moncton toward Dieppe and Riverview.
Where Moncton sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Moncton keeps time with a river that does not behave like a quiet canal. Twice a day the Tidal Bore rolls up the Petitcodiac River, and Bore Park is where downtown goes to watch it from the amphitheatre beside Treitz House. Riverfront Park stretches the same shore with trails that stitch Main Street toward Dieppe and Riverview, so a Saturday can run from the Moncton Market on Westmorland Street to a bore arrival without leaving the water. When city notices talk about Pride Festival or summer concerts, Riverfront Park is usually in the frame, and Resurgo Place covers the museum stop if the weather turns.
North of the core, Irishtown Nature Park is the big green lung: surfaced loops, tougher footpaths, and trail names like Dragonfly and Gerhardt that show up whenever work closes a segment. Farther out on Mountain Road, Magnetic Hill Illusion still sells the gravity-hill drive, with Magnetic Hill Zoo as the family stop in the same cluster. Codiac Transpo is the bus brand on civic notices, and Croix-Bleue Medavie Stadium is the venue that triggers traffic plans when a big show lands. The split is practical: bore and Main Street for downtown days, Irishtown for a long walk, Magnetic Hill when someone asks for the classic Moncton photo.
On the OpenStats City Score for 2026, Moncton sits at rank 66 of 125. The hometown shorthand is simpler than a ranking: check the bore clock, walk the riverfront, and decide whether the afternoon belongs at Irishtown or up at Magnetic Hill. That geography is what keeps Moncton from reading like a generic mid-sized Maritime city on paper.
Drawn from City of Moncton, Tidal Bore, Riverfront Park, Irishtown Nature Park, Magnetic Hill Illusion, CBC New Brunswick.
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
Maclean's
Successor-style municipal livability ranking published by Maclean's for 2019 and 2021 (no 2020 edition).
Single edition · 2021
Only one published edition places Moncton in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
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 Tidal Bore is a single upstream wave on the Petitcodiac River, often half a metre to a metre high, with city pages advising viewers to arrive early at Bore Park.
Riverfront Park offers about five kilometres of trail along the Petitcodiac and connects downtown Moncton toward Dieppe and Riverview.
Irishtown Nature Park covers roughly 890 hectares in the north end, with both surfaced trails and natural footpaths.
Magnetic Hill Illusion asks drivers to stop at the bottom, shift to neutral, and roll what feels like uphill on a gravity hill at the base of Lutes Mountain.
Downtown's appointed seat for the tidal bore. The amphitheatre faces the Petitcodiac beside Treitz House, with Main Street and the market a short walk away.
Moncton's oversized north-end escape for walking, biking, snowshoeing, and non-motorized boating. Trail closures here are local news because so many people use the loops.
The classic Moncton roadside marvel on Mountain Road. Pair it with Magnetic Hill Zoo if the day is built for out-of-town guests.
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