Paradise, Newfoundland and Labrador
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Paradise

Paradise drinking water hardness is 268 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Paradise

Arena rank #141 of 172 · 53% XP

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7/8 pillars on the board

53%#141

Paradise 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.

Paradise drinking water

Direct municipal reading

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

Hardness
268 mg/L
very hard
pH
8.1
Lead
0.4 μg/L

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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 Paradise

Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Paradise.

How Paradise scores

Rising+43

Paradise sits at City Score rank #141 with a standing of 53%, 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. Rising 43 places versus 2022 (#184 → #141).

Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #18 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #228 of 343 at 118 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #24 of 343 (13.30 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

#141
Arena rank (of 172)
53%
City Score
7
Pillars observed
Rising+43
vs 2022
#184 → #141

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Arena rank #141 of 172

City Score

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53%#141
Drinking water

Rank #22

6%
Building permits

Rank #18

95%
Internet

Rank #191

45%
Radon

Rank #228

66%
Hazards

No placement

Property tax

Rank #24

7%

Achievements

Rising +43Direct municipal readingGroundwater supply

Hometown notes

Archive

Earlier years: 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023

Paradise in brief

Paradise is town on the Avalon Peninsula in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

Paradise grew the familiar Canadian way: schools, rinks, churches, and a main street that still anchors weekends. Festivals and street names carry pieces of that plotline into the present.

Paradise service economy ties to county seats, highway corridors, and regional employers that keep main street businesses busy through the year. On OpenStats City Score, Paradise ranks 141 of 7. Municipal recreation, parks, trails, and utility pages remain the best live guide to how Paradise 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 Paradise 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 Paradise. 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 Paradise.

Drawn from Municipality of Paradise, CBC Newfoundland and Labrador.

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 Paradise

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

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

#191
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 371.4

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

#18
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 935330860

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

#141
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.527

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

#163
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 88.74

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

#22
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 268

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

#228
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 118

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

#52
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.02528420227361819

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

#24
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 13.297052562964357

Worth knowing in Paradise

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

Places to see

Paradise downtown

Historic main street blocks, local shops, and civic buildings remain the walking-tour version of Paradise.

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