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Sudbury drinking water hardness is 168 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Sudbury

Census_metropolitan_area171k pop
46XP
#234

#234 of 343

46% City Score XP

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City Score XP

7/8 pillars on the board

46%#234

Decade trail

Sudbury 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.

Sudbury 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
168 mg/L
hard
pH
7.1
Lead
0 μg/L

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Watershed to tap · system map

How Sudbury's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Sudbury 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 Sudbury

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

Sports

Junior hockey in Sudbury

Full sports page →
Team
Sudbury Wolves
League
OHL
Points %
69.9%

68 GP · 95 pts · Compare CHL cities

How Sudbury scores

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Sudbury sits at City Score rank #234 with a standing of 46%, 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 37 places versus 2022 (#197 → #234).

Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #69 of 327 at 131 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #25 of 57 (14.57 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

Among Canadian cities on the hub, Sudbury carries a City Score standing of 46% (rank #234 of 343) with 7 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 6 points below the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Sudbury ranks #95 of 123 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is seismic hazard (standing 61%, rank #209 of 343, raw score 0.04). The weakest observed pillar is indoor radon (standing 21%, rank #69 of 327). Crime severity uses the Statistics Canada police-service CSI mapped to Greater Sudbury, Ontario (table 35100026), not a regional proxy.

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 168 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Sudbury. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#234
Arena rank (of 343)
46%
City Score
7
Pillars observed
Dropping−37
vs 2022
#197 → #234

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #234 of 343

City Score

7/8 pillars · main XP bar

46%#234
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #169

73%
Building permits

No placement

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Internet

Rank #257

25%
Radon

Rank #69

21%
Hazards

Rank #209

61%
Property tax

Rank #25

44%

Sudbury 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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In the news

Data desk

Hometown notes

City profile

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

Sudbury in brief

People say Greater Sudbury when they mean the whole amalgamated map, and the City's about page still leads with lakes: hundreds of them, with Lake Wanapitei as the one locals boast about for sheer size inside municipal limits. Beaches and Lakes is a Play category for a reason. Downtown Sudbury holds the errands and the arguments; The Market and Memorial Park keep a softer beat a short walk from the core. Bridge of Nations is the civic gesture you pass without needing a brochure. When visitors roll in from the northeast, Science North and Dynamic Earth are the pair the City itself names for cultural and educational trips.

Mining is not a museum label here. Greater Sudbury calls itself a mining centre with a mining supply and service sector that employs thousands beyond the pits, and that cluster still shapes who drives Falconbridge Road at shift change. GOVA is the transit name on city navigation; Sudbury Community Arena is where the big indoor nights land. Capreol shows up when Communities in Bloom judges roll through, a reminder that Greater Sudbury is a constellation of towns as much as a single downtown.

Press fronts bounce between housing construction talk, downtown safety files, and the usual Northeastern Ontario hub business. Laurentian keeps the education corridor in the picture. On the OpenStats City Score for 2025, Sudbury sits at rank 179 of 343. Rankings aside, the hometown read is a bilingual regional capital that measures itself in lakes, GOVA routes, and whether the mining supply shops are busy.

Drawn from City of Greater Sudbury, About Greater Sudbury, Sudbury Star, CBC Sudbury.

City Score over time

City Score from 2016–2025 across eight open-data pillars. Individual study placements are listed in the panels below.

0%25%50%75%100%2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
OpenStats City Score

Rankings for Sudbury

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 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

#257
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 174.6

Sports · OpenStats

OpenStats CHL Points Percentage

OpenStats

Canadian Hockey League (OHL, WHL, QMJHL) member cities ranked by regular-season points percentage. One CHL team maps to each OpenStats hometown slug; standings snapshot is curated from public league tables.

Single edition · 2025

#14
Published · 2025 · of 45
Score 0.699

Only one published edition places Sudbury in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

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

#234
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.462

Safety · OpenStats

OpenStats Crime Severity Index

OpenStats

Communities ranked by Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index at police-service grain (Tables 35-10-0026-01 and 35-10-0063-01 for British Columbia). Rank 1 is highest CSI (worse). Cities without a police-service match are not listed; the safety pillar scores at median standing on City Score. Hometown pages name the police service and reference year.

CSI from Greater Sudbury, Ontario (2025, Table 35-10-0026-01).

10 editions · 2016–2025

#62
Latest · 2025 · of 102
Score 64.93

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

#169
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 168

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

#69
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 131.2

Sports · OpenStats

OpenStats Local Sports Depth

OpenStats

Hometowns with a mapped junior hockey franchise ranked by local sports depth: league tier (CHL member leagues = 1.0, MHL = 0.65) multiplied by regular-season points percentage. Surfaces cities with both a franchise and a strong standings year; not a City Score pillar input.

Single edition · 2025

#14
Published · 2025 · of 49
Score 0.699

Only one published edition places Sudbury in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

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

#227
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.006287022370733613

Property tax · OpenStats

OpenStats Residential Mill Rates

OpenStats

Municipalities ranked by residential mill rate (education levies are shown on property-tax pages but not added here). Rank 1 is the highest rate. Atlas seed and published municipal rows anchor the panel; off-panel tax years (e.g. 2026) carry across 2016–2025; remaining gaps follow provincial paths.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#25
Latest · 2025 · of 57
Score 14.57

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

#209
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.04

Worth knowing in Sudbury

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

  • City copy calls Greater Sudbury a city of lakes, with about 330 lakes and Lake Wanapitei named as the largest lake contained within a city.

    City of Greater Sudbury

  • Municipal pages pair Science North and Dynamic Earth as the cultural stops regional visitors plan around.

    City of Greater Sudbury

  • Falconbridge Road surfaces in Sudbury Star police coverage the way other cities name a commute corridor.

    Sudbury Star

Places to see

Bridge of Nations

A Play-list landmark downtown that reads as Greater Sudbury's international welcome gesture. Locals treat it as orientation more than a ticketed attraction.

Memorial Park

A named municipal park under parks and playgrounds, close enough to Downtown Sudbury for a lunch break that is not a mall corridor.

The Market

Municipal Play listing for the public market, where weekend errands feel more local than a big-box run.

Science North

One half of the City's own visitor pair with Dynamic Earth. It is the indoor answer when the lakes are windy and the mining talk needs a public face.

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