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Prince Edward County

Prince Edward County drinking water hardness is 228 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Prince Edward County

City26k pop
49XP
#196

#196 of 343

49% City Score XP

RisingSurface
City Score XP

5/8 pillars on the board

49%#196

Decade trail

Prince Edward County packs 5 of eight open-data pillars into its composite standing. Tap a rival below to see how the hometown stacks up head-to-head.

Prince Edward County drinking water

Regional estimate from nearest municipal sample

Hardness, pH, and lead from municipal reports on the OpenStats water atlas. This page uses a regional estimate — open the water atlas for method notes.

Hardness
228 mg/L
very hard
pH
7.1
Lead
0.4 μg/L

Full Prince Edward County water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Espanola · vs North BayHardness guide

Watershed to tap · system map

How Prince Edward County's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Prince Edward County from municipal and provincial water records. Open the animated map for the full watershed-to-tap diagram — no nested topic navigation here.

Local numbers for Prince Edward County

Permits, tax, internet, radon, hazards, drinking water, and sports rankings where a CHL hometown applies.

How Prince Edward County scores

Rising+50

Prince Edward County sits at City Score rank #196 with a standing of 49%, from 5 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 50 places versus 2022 (#246 → #196).

Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #172 of 327 at 103 Bq/m³ survey mean. Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

In the 2025 City Score edition, Prince Edward County carries a City Score standing of 49% (rank #196 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 4 points below the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Prince Edward County ranks #84 of 123 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is population growth (standing 61%, rank #134 of 343, +1.5% annual growth). The weakest observed pillar is drinking-water hardness (standing 21%, rank #71 of 343).

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 228 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Prince Edward County. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#196
Arena rank (of 343)
49%
City Score
5
Pillars observed
Rising+50
vs 2022
#246 → #196

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #196 of 343

City Score

5/8 pillars · main XP bar

49%#196
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #71

35%
Building permits

No placement

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Internet

Rank #163

53%
Radon

Rank #172

53%
Hazards

Rank #126

37%
Property tax

No placement

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Prince Edward County pillar standing

Eight equal-weight City Score pillars, 2025 panel year.

TaxPermitsNetRadonWaterHazardsGrowthCrime

Source: OpenStats composite / study editions

City Score standing trend

Standing percentage by panel year (higher is better).

Years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

Source: OpenStats composite timeseries

Achievements

Rising +50Surface water supply

Hometown notes

City profile

Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.

Prince Edward County in brief

Prince Edward County is part of the Ontario civic atlas on OpenStats. The name traces to Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent (the fourth son of King George II. Long before municipal boundaries, Indigenous nations already knew this valley and its seasons.

Mills, mines, or farm-service industries rewrote the skyline every couple of decades. Ask three locals which decade mattered most and you will get three different answers, all delivered with a grin.

Prince Edward County service economy ties to county seats, highway corridors, and regional employers that keep main street businesses busy through the year. On OpenStats City Score, Prince Edward County ranks 204 of 343. Municipal recreation, parks, trails, and utility pages remain the best live guide to how Prince Edward County 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 Prince Edward County 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 Prince Edward County.

Drawn from Municipality of Prince Edward County, CBC Toronto / Ontario.

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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OpenStats City Score

Rankings for Prince Edward County

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.

Safety · OpenStats

Crime severity not placed

Statistics Canada does not publish a police-service Crime Severity Index that OpenStats can match to Prince Edward County without copying a province, CMA, or another city. The safety pillar scores at median standing (50%) on City Score, the same rule used for other missing pillars.

Connectivity · OpenStats

OpenStats Broadband Download Speeds

OpenStats

Cities ranked by household-weighted maximum advertised download (Mbps) from ISED National Broadband Data hex ISP rows, with hex-to-city assignment by population-weighted gravity. The headline 2025 score is the dwelling-weighted mean of per-hex technology ceilings (fibre and cable at 1 Gbps, DSL lower). Household-weighted 50/10 availability (%) is stored on atlas rows as avail_5010_pct. Earlier panel years backcast along a national speed curve with city-specific fiber and availability paths.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#163
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 545.7

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). Crime severity uses StatCan police-service CSI only (Tables 35-10-0026-01 and 35-10-0063-01); cities without a police-service match take median standing on the safety pillar. Growth uses StatCan CSD estimates; construction uses verified municipal building-permit value per resident (population field on each city record, 2021 Census vintage); 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

#196
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.485

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

#71
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 228

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

#172
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 102.9

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

#134
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.014661460251970824

Hazards · OpenStats

OpenStats Seismic Hazard (PGA)

OpenStats

Communities ranked by NRCan peak ground acceleration (higher = stronger shaking hazard). Rank 1 is highest PGA. The seismic model is multi-year; values are carried across the City Score panel and flagged as static until NRCan publishes a new generation.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#126
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.061

Worth knowing in Prince Edward County

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

Places to see

Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario shapes how Prince Edward County talks about geography, recreation, and seasonal flooding or drought planning.

Prince Edward County downtown

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

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