Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
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Niagara-on-the-Lake

Niagara-on-the-Lake drinking water hardness is 225 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

Civic arena · hometown HUD

Niagara-on-the-Lake

Arena rank #115 of 172 · 54% XP

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7/8 pillars on the board

54%#115

Niagara-on-the-Lake 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.

Niagara-on-the-Lake drinking water

Direct municipal reading

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

Hardness
225 mg/L
very hard
pH
6.8
Lead
0.1 μg/L

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How Niagara-on-the-Lake's water works

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Source, treatment, and distribution path from OpenStats water atlas supply research — not invented plant names. Hardness and grade labels reflect published readings.

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Local numbers for Niagara-on-the-Lake

Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Niagara-on-the-Lake.

How Niagara-on-the-Lake scores

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Niagara-on-the-Lake sits at City Score rank #115 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. Dropping 49 places versus 2022 (#66 → #115).

Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #323 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #221 of 343 at 125 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #308 of 343 (7.50 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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Arena rank (of 172)
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Arena rank #115 of 172

City Score

7/8 pillars · main XP bar

54%#115
Drinking water

Rank #86

25%
Building permits

Rank #323

6%
Internet

Rank #87

75%
Radon

Rank #221

64%
Hazards

No placement

Property tax

Rank #308

90%

Achievements

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Hometown notes

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Earlier years: 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023

Niagara-on-the-Lake in brief

Niagara-on-the-Lake lands on the Ontario map as a place people still call home.

Trading posts and early forts left fingerprints on street names and museum displays. Festivals and street names carry pieces of that plotline into the present.

Agriculture, forestry, tourism, and public-sector jobs still mix on the local tax roll the way many Ontario towns do. On OpenStats City Score, Niagara-on-the-Lake ranks 115 of 7. Municipal recreation, parks, trails, and utility pages remain the best live guide to how Niagara-on-the-Lake explains itself today.

Permits, mill rates, broadband, radon, hazards, and water quality may show measured values, regional estimates, or empty states until a verified source is linked. That is the same honest pattern OpenStats uses for smaller places already in the corpus, and it keeps Niagara-on-the-Lake comparable on the hometown board without inventing numbers. Seasonal recreation programming, winter maintenance, and summer festival calendars still fill the municipal news feed most years. Library branches, arena ice, and aquatics schedules are the practical anchors families check before planning a weekend in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Seasonal recreation programming, winter maintenance, and summer festival calendars still fill the municipal news feed most years. Library branches, arena ice, and aquatics schedules are the practical anchors families check before planning a weekend in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Seasonal recreation programming, winter maintenance, and summer festival calendars still fill the municipal news feed most years. Library branches, arena ice, and aquatics schedules are the practical anchors families check before planning a weekend in Niagara-on-the-Lake.

Drawn from Municipality of Niagara-on-the-Lake, CBC Toronto / Ontario.

City Score over time

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

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Rankings for Niagara-on-the-Lake

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

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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

#87
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 572.9

Construction · OpenStats

OpenStats Building Permit Value

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

#323
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 106013190

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). 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

#115
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.544

Safety · OpenStats

OpenStats Crime Severity Index

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

#291
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 57.17

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

#86
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 225

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

#221
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 125

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

#309
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score -0.0036222894854364114

Property tax · OpenStats

OpenStats Residential Mill Rates

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

#308
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 7.496556160586118

Worth knowing in Niagara-on-the-Lake

Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.

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Niagara-on-the-Lake downtown

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