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Shelburne drinking water hardness is 222 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

Civic arena · hometown HUD

Shelburne

Town8,994 pop
55XP
#90

#90 of 343

55% City Score XP

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City Score XP

5/8 pillars on the board

55%#90

Decade trail

Shelburne 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.

Shelburne 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
222 mg/L
very hard
pH
8
Lead
0.6 μg/L

Full Shelburne water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Erin · vs Clarence-RocklandHardness guide

Watershed to tap · system map

How Shelburne's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Shelburne 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 Shelburne

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

How Shelburne scores

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Shelburne sits at City Score rank #90 with a standing of 55%, 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. Dropping 15 places versus 2022 (#75 → #90).

Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #140 of 327 at 106 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, Shelburne carries a City Score standing of 55% (rank #90 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 2 points above the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Shelburne ranks #46 of 123 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 84%, rank #56 of 343, raw score 1000). The weakest observed pillar is drinking-water hardness (standing 23%, rank #80 of 343).

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 222 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Shelburne. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#90
Arena rank (of 343)
55%
City Score
5
Pillars observed
Dropping−15
vs 2022
#75 → #90

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #90 of 343

City Score

5/8 pillars · main XP bar

55%#90
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #80

23%
Building permits

No placement

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Internet

Rank #56

84%
Radon

Rank #140

43%
Hazards

Rank #217

63%
Property tax

No placement

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Shelburne 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

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Hometown notes

City profile

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

Shelburne in brief

Shelburne is part of the Ontario civic atlas on OpenStats. Around 1877 the community took shape, borrowing a name from the Earl of Shelburne.

The whistle-stop era gave downtown its grid and its first permanent businesses. Walk the older blocks and you can still spot seams between eras.

Shelburne service economy ties to county seats, highway corridors, and regional employers that keep main street businesses busy through the year. On OpenStats City Score, Shelburne ranks 184 of 343. Municipal recreation, parks, trails, and utility pages remain the best live guide to how Shelburne 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 Shelburne 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 Shelburne. 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 Shelburne.

Drawn from Municipality of Shelburne, 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 Shelburne

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 Shelburne 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

#56
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 1000

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

#90
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.549

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

#80
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 222

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

#140
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 105.5

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

#85
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.019988632057597575

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

#217
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.039

Worth knowing in Shelburne

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Places to see

Shelburne downtown

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