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Pembroke drinking water hardness is 133 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#119 of 343
54% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Pembroke 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 Pembroke from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Pembroke.
Pembroke sits at City Score rank #119 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. Rising 16 places versus 2022 (#135 → #119).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #206 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #336 of 343 at 33 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #88 of 343 (11.81 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 Pembroke.
Ottawa River park with the Riverwalk Amphitheatre for Waterfront Live! and Buskerfest nights. It is the default summer meeting place
Skate park at Lake Street and Albert Street on the City parks list. A named stop for boarders that keeps youth recreation on the same map
Waterfront Live! is a free City concert series at the Riverwalk Amphitheatre most summer evenings, with movies on Tuesdays.
Where Pembroke sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Pembroke organizes summer around the Ottawa River. Waterfront Park holds the Riverwalk Amphitheatre, where Waterfront Live! puts free concerts on most summer nights and Movie Nights in the Park take the Tuesday slot. Ottawa Valley Buskerfest spills from the waterfront into downtown in mid-August, turning the same shore into a street-performance weekend. Riverside Park handles the longer stay: beach, campground, splash pad, mini golf, and a stretch of river bank that feels like the city's second living room. Between the two parks, Kiwanis Way keeps walkers and bikes on a non-motorized path along the shore.
Trail talk names the Algonquin Trail, the multi-use route that cuts through Pembroke from Rankin Street to Forced Road with a Waterfront Park stop built in. Parks pages also nod to the Muskrat River when they list green space views, a reminder the city sits on more than one watercourse. The Rapids Skate Park at Lake and Albert covers the board crowd. Kinsmen Pool keeps lessons and public swims indoors when the river is not the plan. For getting around town without a car, Ottawa River Transit runs on-demand through the Blaise Transit app, a local brand that shows up on the City home as plainly as any bus route.
Observer fronts keep the Ottawa Valley frame, from waterfront fishing derbies to Garrison Petawawa notices that still land in the same paper. On the OpenStats City Score for 2026, Pembroke sits at rank 87 of 125. Rankings aside, the hometown read is a waterfront you schedule summer around and a valley identity that does not need explaining.
Drawn from City of Pembroke, City of Pembroke parks and playgrounds, Waterfront LIVE!, Pembroke Observer.
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.
Waterfront Live! is a free City concert series at the Riverwalk Amphitheatre most summer evenings, with movies on Tuesdays.
The Algonquin Trail runs through Pembroke from Rankin Street to Forced Road and is accessible via Waterfront Park.
Kiwanis Way links Waterfront Park and Riverside Park as a non-motorized shore path.
Ottawa Valley Buskerfest returns to Pembroke Waterfront Park and downtown as a two-day August festival.
Ottawa River park with the Riverwalk Amphitheatre for Waterfront Live! and Buskerfest nights. It is the default summer meeting place when someone says they are heading downtown to the water.
Larger riverside park with beach, campground, splash pad, and mini golf. Families treat it as the all-day option when Waterfront Park is the evening stage.
Skate park at Lake Street and Albert Street on the City parks list. A named stop for boarders that keeps youth recreation on the same map as the waterfront concerts.
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