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Orillia drinking water hardness is 106 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
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#65 of 343
58% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Orillia 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.
Full Orillia water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Owen Sound · vs Elliot LakeHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Orillia from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Orillia.
Orillia sits at City Score rank #65 with a standing of 58%, 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 31 places versus 2022 (#34 → #65).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #112 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #100 of 343 at 206 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #270 of 343 (8.10 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 Orillia.
Outdoor stage in Couchiching Beach Park for Saturday Lakeside Live shows and Sunday band nights. Bring a chair; the lake does the rest
Main city waterfront park for swimming, festivals, and concert evenings. Moose Beach sits nearby on the same advisory circuit when water
Lakeside Live and Sunday Evening Band Concerts are free summer series at the Rotary Aqua Theatre.
Where Orillia sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Orillia faces Lake Couchiching with a waterfront that still runs on music. Couchiching Beach Park holds the Rotary Aqua Theatre, where Orillians bring their own chairs for Lakeside Live on Saturdays and Sunday Evening Band Concerts when the light goes soft over the lake. City culture pages call that habit part of a longer music-hub story, and the free summer series keeps the claim honest without needing a ticket booth. Rock one Saturday, swing-band nostalgia the next Sunday: the stage absorbs both without fuss.
A short shoreline drive away, the Leacock Museum sits on Old Brewery Bay. Stephen Leacock bought the property in 1908 after spotting brewery remnants from a sailboat, then built the house in 1928; the National Historic Site still reads as a cottage grounds first and a museum second. August adds the Orillia Waterfront Festival to the calendar, while Moose Beach shares swimming-advisory notices with Couchiching Beach whenever the lake needs a caution flag. Stormwater master-plan open houses and Civic Holiday schedules share the same city news feed.
Saturday mornings stay local at the Orillia Farmers' Market inside the Orillia Public Library, year-round, produce and handmade goods under one roof. Civic notices also keep Lakehead University expansion and OSMH redevelopment on the public agenda, reminders that the town is negotiating its next institutional chapter while the Aqua Theatre still fills on warm nights. OrilliaMatters covers the everyday desk. The hometown picture is lakeside and musical: band shell evenings, Old Brewery Bay, and a market that does not wait for tourist season.
Drawn from City of Orillia - Music in the Park, City of Orillia - Leacock Museum, City of Orillia, OrilliaMatters.
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.
4 editions · 2014–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Lakeside Live and Sunday Evening Band Concerts are free summer series at the Rotary Aqua Theatre.
Stephen Leacock named the museum shoreline Old Brewery Bay after finding brewery remnants while sailing.
Leacock purchased the Old Brewery Bay property in 1908 and built the house in 1928.
The Orillia Farmers' Market runs Saturday mornings year-round at the Orillia Public Library.
Outdoor stage in Couchiching Beach Park for Saturday Lakeside Live shows and Sunday band nights. Bring a chair; the lake does the rest of the set design.
National Historic Site cottage and grounds on Old Brewery Bay. Tours and programs keep Stephen Leacock's Orillia shoreline open to visitors.
Main city waterfront park for swimming, festivals, and concert evenings. Moose Beach sits nearby on the same advisory circuit when water quality shifts.
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