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Oshawa drinking water hardness is 93 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#47 of 343
60% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Oshawa 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.
Rivalries on deck
Hardness, pH, and lead from municipal reports on the OpenStats water atlas.
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Source, treatment, and distribution for Oshawa from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Oshawa.
Oshawa sits at City Score rank #47 with a standing of 60%, 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 #244 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #190 of 343 at 143 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #315 of 343 (7.28 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 #47 of 343
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Achievements
Published residential mill-rate context for Oshawa.
Primary waterfront park with beach access, pavilion space, and easy links to the Waterfront Trail. The default answer when someone says
Wetland reserve with boardwalks and lookouts tied by trail to Ed Broadbent Waterfront Park and McLaughlin Bay. Quieter than the beach,
The City of Oshawa waterfront page says the name translates to where we must leave our canoes.
Where Oshawa sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Oshawa's municipal waterfront page still leads with a place-name translation: where we must leave our canoes. The shoreline that follows is busy in a practical way. Lakeview Park is the big draw, with beach, Jubilee Pavilion, and the Oshawa Museum's Henry House nearby. Ed Broadbent Waterfront Park adds an amphitheatre and a pedestrian bridge over Oshawa Creek toward Second Marsh and the Joseph Kolodzie Oshawa Creek Bike Path. The Lake Ontario Waterfront Trail ties the pieces together, and paid weekend parking from May through October is part of the local choreography.
Automotive heritage is not museum talk alone. The Canadian Automotive Museum occupies a restored 1920s dealership on Simcoe Street South and frames itself as a keeper of Canadian cars and Oshawa's industrial legacy. In Memorial Park, the McLaughlin Bandshell was a 1942 gift from R.S. McLaughlin, founder of General Motors Canada, built so the Oshawa Civic Band had a proper stage. The Robert McLaughlin Gallery and Ontario Tech University keep arts and campus life in the same civic conversation, a few blocks from the dealership museum.
Second Marsh and McLaughlin Bay Wildlife Reserve give birders and walkers a wetland counterweight to the beach crowds. Summer programming leans on Events in the Park, and May brings Doors Open Oshawa across heritage sites from the bandshell to the museum floor. DurhamRegion's Oshawa This Week desk covers the everyday regional beat. The hometown blend is clear: auto-city memory, creek-to-marsh trails, and a Lakeview habit that still defines weekend plans.
Drawn from City of Oshawa - Waterfront, City of Oshawa - Doors Open Oshawa, City of Oshawa, DurhamRegion.com / Oshawa.
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.
The City of Oshawa waterfront page says the name translates to where we must leave our canoes.
The Canadian Automotive Museum opened in a restored 1920s dealership and was founded in 1962.
Second Marsh is a 123-hectare provincially significant wetland in southeast Oshawa.
Oshawa's Waterfront Trail segment is part of the nearly 900-kilometre Lake Ontario route.
Primary waterfront park with beach access, pavilion space, and easy links to the Waterfront Trail. The default answer when someone says they are heading to the lake.
Downtown museum of Canadian cars in a restored dealership building. A direct line to the industrial story that still shapes how Oshawa talks about itself.
Wetland reserve with boardwalks and lookouts tied by trail to Ed Broadbent Waterfront Park and McLaughlin Bay. Quieter than the beach, and just as local.
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