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South Bruce Peninsula

South Bruce Peninsula drinking water hardness is 203 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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South Bruce Peninsula

Arena rank #157 of 172 · 52% XP

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7/8 pillars on the board

52%#157

South Bruce Peninsula 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.

South Bruce Peninsula drinking water

Direct municipal reading

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

Hardness
203 mg/L
very hard
pH
7.6
Lead
0.3 μg/L

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Local numbers for South Bruce Peninsula

Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for South Bruce Peninsula.

How South Bruce Peninsula scores

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South Bruce Peninsula sits at City Score rank #157 with a standing of 52%, 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. Dropping 113 places versus 2022 (#44 → #157).

Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #60 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #104 of 343 at 203 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #216 of 343 (9.14 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

#157
Arena rank (of 172)
52%
City Score
7
Pillars observed
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Arena rank #157 of 172

City Score

7/8 pillars · main XP bar

52%#157
Drinking water

Rank #121

35%
Building permits

Rank #60

83%
Internet

Rank #212

38%
Radon

Rank #104

30%
Hazards

No placement

Property tax

Rank #216

63%

Achievements

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Hometown notes

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Earlier years: 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023

South Bruce Peninsula in brief

South Bruce Peninsula is part of the Ontario civic atlas on OpenStats.

Decades of ordinary town-building followed: recreation centres, county fairs, and service jobs tied to the wider region. Festivals and street names carry pieces of that plotline into the present.

Agriculture, forestry, tourism, and public-sector jobs still mix on the local tax roll the way many Ontario towns do. On OpenStats City Score, South Bruce Peninsula ranks 157 of 7. Municipal recreation, parks, trails, and utility pages remain the best live guide to how South Bruce Peninsula 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 South Bruce Peninsula 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 South Bruce Peninsula. 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 South Bruce Peninsula.

Drawn from Municipality of South Bruce Peninsula, 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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Rankings for South Bruce Peninsula

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

#212
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 324.3

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

#60
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 775521915

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

#157
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.517

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

#319
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 57.17

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

#121
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 203

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

#104
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 203

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

#317
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score -0.005783279220779221

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

#216
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 9.136963423817347

Worth knowing in South Bruce Peninsula

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