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Oakville drinking water hardness is 99 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
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#27 of 343
63% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Oakville 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 Oakville from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Oakville.
Oakville sits at City Score rank #27 with a standing of 63%, 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 #104 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #184 of 343 at 149 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #284 of 343 (7.94 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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Achievements
Published residential mill-rate context for Oakville.
Working-turned-recreational harbour under the Bluffs, with Fisherman's Wharf and Berta Point in the same shoreline frame. The town's
Large Lakeshore Road West destination park for open lake days and gatherings. One of the shoreline parks the town flags for special-event
Bronte Harbour began as a purpose-built harbour completed in 1856 at the mouth of Bronte Creek.
Where Oakville sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Oakville lives on Lake Ontario with two distinct waterfront personalities. Downtown Oakville gathers along Lakeshore Road beside Sixteen Mile Creek and Oakville Harbour, where Erchless Estate marks the heritage edge of the old port settlement. A few kilometres west, Bronte Village meets Bronte Harbour at the mouth of Bronte Creek, once also called Twelve Mile Creek. Locals do not confuse the two harbours, even if visitors sometimes do. Both shores still shape weekend plans more than any inland plaza.
Bronte Harbour and the Bronte Bluffs carry a long working past: stone hooking schooners, fishing shanties, and later recreational slips after mid-century shipbuilding faded. The town now treats Bronte Heritage Waterfront Park, Fisherman's Wharf, Berta Point, and Bronte Bluffs Park as one connected shoreline project. A Bronte Waterfront Strategy endorsed in 2026 is chasing better promenades, wayfinding into Bronte Village, and year-round use without pushing harbour boats out of the picture. Harbour operations and cultural heritage sit in the same planning sentence, which is how Bronte talks about itself.
Coronation Park anchors another stretch of Lakeshore Road West for big lake days, while Clearview Park hosts neighbourhood evenings like Movies in the Park. Destination parks are the town's own category for these high-draw shoreline greens, and parking advice shows up every warm weekend for a reason. Fall recreation registration still opens with the same quiet urgency every August, and Town Hall remains the civic atrium for community gatherings. The hometown read is shoreline first: creek valleys, harbour talk, and a Lakeshore Road that stitches downtown to Bronte.
Drawn from Town of Oakville - Bronte Waterfront Strategy, Town of Oakville - Destination Parks, Town of Oakville - Bronte Harbour heritage notice, Town of Oakville.
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
The Globe and Mail
2023 data partnership with Environics Analytics ranking 439 Canadian communities on ten livability categories.
Single edition · 2023
Only one published edition places Oakville in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Livability
Maclean's
Successor-style municipal livability ranking published by Maclean's for 2019 and 2021 (no 2020 edition).
Single edition · 2019
Only one published edition places Oakville 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.
6 editions · 2013–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Bronte Harbour began as a purpose-built harbour completed in 1856 at the mouth of Bronte Creek.
Bronte Creek was historically also known as Twelve Mile Creek.
Bronte Heritage Waterfront Park is a town destination park below Lakeshore Road with a butterfly gazebo.
Council endorsed the Bronte Waterfront Strategy on May 25, 2026.
Working-turned-recreational harbour under the Bluffs, with Fisherman's Wharf and Berta Point in the same shoreline frame. The town's waterfront strategy is aimed at keeping village and harbour talking to each other.
Destination park and heritage estate on the downtown harbour edge beside Sixteen Mile Creek. A quieter counterpoint to the busier Lakeshore shopping blocks.
Large Lakeshore Road West destination park for open lake days and gatherings. One of the shoreline parks the town flags for special-event planning.
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