Nova Scotia · Civic arena
New Glasgow drinking water hardness is 241 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
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#178 of 343
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New Glasgow 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 New Glasgow from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for New Glasgow.
New Glasgow sits at City Score rank #178 with a standing of 50%, 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 10 places versus 2022 (#168 → #178).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #184 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #325 of 343 at 41 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #1 of 343 (13.79 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 New Glasgow.
Municipal park listed as Their Light Will Always Shine. It is one of the clearest named memorial spaces on the town visitor parks list.
Sports complex with a listed playground on the municipal visitor pages. It sits with neighbourhood parks like Carmichael and Laurie
The New Glasgow Public Library is temporarily at the Aberdeen Business Centre on East River Road during revitalization.
Where New Glasgow sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
New Glasgow introduces itself as Pictou County first, with a municipal land acknowledgement for Mi'kmaq territory on the town site. The visitor pages read like a neighbourhood map: Carmichael, Laurie, Rotary, Murdoch, and Africentric parks, plus Westray Memorial Park under the title Their Light Will Always Shine. Playgrounds stretch from Munroe Avenue to Scott Weeks Sports Complex and the South End Playground dedicated to Dr. Carrie Best. Art in the Park and Ice Cream Hike style listings keep the summer calendar neighbourly and close to home.
The New Glasgow Public Library is mid-rebuild, operating from the Aberdeen Business Centre on East River Road while the Library Revitalization Project aims for a Destination Centre with maker spaces and meeting rooms. Bee City Canada certification shows up in community columns about pollinator planting and reduced pesticides, alongside shout-outs to the Museum of Industry. Dalhousie Street traffic advisories remind you this is still a working downtown street grid, not a brochure. Pictou County history collections at the temporary library keep the county story close even while the building is under construction.
Aberdeen Regional Hospital appears in the regional news beat as a Pictou County landmark of another kind. On OpenStats City Score for 2026, New Glasgow sits at rank 44 of 125. The hometown frame stays parks and memorials, a library in transition, and Bee City habits before any mill-rate table. Ask for directions and you will hear East River Road, Dalhousie Street, and which town park the kids actually use after school.
Drawn from Town of New Glasgow - Visitors, Town of New Glasgow - Community, Town of New Glasgow, CBC Nova Scotia.
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.
5 editions · 2014–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
The New Glasgow Public Library is temporarily at the Aberdeen Business Centre on East River Road during revitalization.
Westray Memorial Park appears on the municipal parks list as Their Light Will Always Shine.
New Glasgow is a certified Bee City with municipal pollinator planting commitments.
South End Playground is dedicated to Dr. Carrie Best on the town playground roster.
Municipal park listed as Their Light Will Always Shine. It is one of the clearest named memorial spaces on the town visitor parks list.
Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library branch temporarily based at Aberdeen Business Centre while the Library Revitalization Project rebuilds the home facility into a Destination Centre.
Sports complex with a listed playground on the municipal visitor pages. It sits with neighbourhood parks like Carmichael and Laurie as everyday recreation geography.
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