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Moncton drinking water hardness is 24 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Moncton

Census_metropolitan_area158k pop
54XP
#100

#100 of 343

54% City Score XP

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7/8 pillars on the board

54%#100

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.

Moncton drinking water

Direct municipal reading

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

Hardness
24 mg/L
soft
pH
8
Lead
0.5 μg/L

Full Moncton water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Shediac · vs QuispamsisHardness guide

Watershed to tap · system map

How Moncton's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Moncton from municipal and provincial water records. Open the animated map for the full watershed-to-tap diagram — no nested topic navigation here.

Local numbers for Moncton

Permits, tax, internet, radon, hazards, drinking water, and sports rankings where a CHL hometown applies.

Sports

Junior hockey in Moncton

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Team
Moncton Wildcats
League
QMJHL
Points %
42.6%

68 GP · 58 pts · Compare CHL cities

How Moncton scores

Moncton sits at City Score rank #100 with a standing of 54%, 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 #15 of 25 (2025); indoor radon rank #233 of 327 at 81 Bq/m³ survey mean. 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, Moncton carries a City Score standing of 54% (rank #100 of 343) with 7 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 7 points above the New Brunswick peer average across 16 ranked cities. Within New Brunswick, Moncton ranks #3 of 16 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is drinking-water hardness (standing 97%, rank #334 of 343, raw score 24). The weakest observed pillar is police-reported crime severity (standing 28%, rank #29 of 102, 105.6 CSI). Crime severity uses the Statistics Canada police-service CSI mapped to Moncton, New Brunswick (table 35100026), not a regional proxy.

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 24 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Moncton. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#100
Arena rank (of 343)
54%
City Score
7
Pillars observed

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #100 of 343

City Score

7/8 pillars · main XP bar

54%#100
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #334

64%
Building permits

Rank #15

44%
Internet

Rank #202

41%
Radon

Rank #233

71%
Hazards

Rank #130

38%
Property tax

No placement

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Moncton pillar standing

Eight equal-weight City Score pillars, 2025 panel year.

TaxPermitsNetRadonWaterHazardsGrowthCrime

Source: OpenStats composite / study editions

City Score standing trend

Standing percentage by panel year (higher is better).

Years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

Source: OpenStats composite timeseries

Achievements

Direct municipal readingSurface water supply

In the news

Data desk

Hometown notes

City profile

Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.

Moncton in brief

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 2025, Moncton sits at rank 129 of 343. 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 over time

City Score from 2016–2025 across eight open-data pillars. Individual study placements are listed in the panels below.

0%25%50%75%100%2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Rankings for Moncton

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 household-weighted maximum advertised download (Mbps) from ISED National Broadband Data hex ISP rows, with hex-to-city assignment by population-weighted gravity. The headline 2025 score is the dwelling-weighted mean of per-hex technology ceilings (fibre and cable at 1 Gbps, DSL lower). Household-weighted 50/10 availability (%) is stored on atlas rows as avail_5010_pct. Earlier panel years backcast along a national speed curve with city-specific fiber and availability paths.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#202
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 361.9

Construction · OpenStats

OpenStats Building Permit Value per Resident

OpenStats

Cities ranked by calendar-year municipal building permit value per resident (total permit dollars divided by the OpenStats population field). Permit totals use verified municipality-grain rows (Statistics Canada CSD or equivalent municipal open data). Population uses Statistics Canada Census 2021 (tables 98-10-0006-01, 98-10-0002-01). Cities without a verified municipal permit series are unplaced; City Score uses median standing on the construction pillar.

2 editions · 2024–2025

#15
Latest · 2025 · of 25
Score 3030.2578796198254

Sports · OpenStats

OpenStats CHL Points Percentage

OpenStats

Canadian Hockey League (OHL, WHL, QMJHL) member cities ranked by regular-season points percentage. One CHL team maps to each OpenStats hometown slug; standings snapshot is curated from public league tables.

Single edition · 2025

#40
Published · 2025 · of 45
Score 0.426

Only one published edition places Moncton in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

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). Crime severity uses StatCan police-service CSI only (Tables 35-10-0026-01 and 35-10-0063-01); cities without a police-service match take median standing on the safety pillar. Growth uses StatCan CSD estimates; construction uses verified municipal building-permit value per resident (population field on each city record, 2021 Census vintage); 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

#100
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.542

Safety · OpenStats

OpenStats Crime Severity Index

OpenStats

Communities ranked by Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index at police-service grain (Tables 35-10-0026-01 and 35-10-0063-01 for British Columbia). Rank 1 is highest CSI (worse). Cities without a police-service match are not listed; the safety pillar scores at median standing on City Score. Hometown pages name the police service and reference year.

CSI from Moncton, New Brunswick (2025, Table 35-10-0026-01).

10 editions · 2016–2025

#29
Latest · 2025 · of 102
Score 105.63

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

#334
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 24

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

#233
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 81.4

Sports · OpenStats

OpenStats Local Sports Depth

OpenStats

Hometowns with a mapped junior hockey franchise ranked by local sports depth: league tier (CHL member leagues = 1.0, MHL = 0.65) multiplied by regular-season points percentage. Surfaces cities with both a franchise and a strong standings year; not a City Score pillar input.

Single edition · 2025

#40
Published · 2025 · of 49
Score 0.426

Only one published edition places Moncton in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

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

#13
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.0369807651402352

Hazards · OpenStats

OpenStats Seismic Hazard (PGA)

OpenStats

Communities ranked by NRCan peak ground acceleration (higher = stronger shaking hazard). Rank 1 is highest PGA. The seismic model is multi-year; values are carried across the City Score panel and flagged as static until NRCan publishes a new generation.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#130
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.059

Livability

Maclean's Best Communities

Maclean's

Successor-style municipal livability ranking published by Maclean's for 2019 and 2021 (no 2020 edition).

Single edition · 2021

#7
Published · 2021 · of 415

Only one published edition places Moncton in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Worth knowing in Moncton

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.

    City of Moncton

  • Riverfront Park offers about five kilometres of trail along the Petitcodiac and connects downtown Moncton toward Dieppe and Riverview.

    City of Moncton

  • Irishtown Nature Park covers roughly 890 hectares in the north end, with both surfaced trails and natural footpaths.

    City of Moncton

  • 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.

    City of Moncton

Places to see

Bore Park

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.

Irishtown Nature Park

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.

Magnetic Hill Illusion

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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