Prince Edward Island · Civic arena
Summerside drinking water hardness is 220 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#72 of 343
57% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Summerside 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.
Rivalries on deck
Hardness, pH, and lead from municipal reports on the OpenStats water atlas.
Full Summerside water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Three Rivers · vs StratfordHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Summerside from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Summerside.
Summerside sits at City Score rank #72 with a standing of 57%, 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 47 places versus 2022 (#119 → #72).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #17 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #295 of 343 at 70 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #120 of 343 (11.09 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #72 of 343
7/8 pillars · main XP bar
Rank #90
Rank #17
Rank #336
Rank #295
No placement
Rank #120
Achievements
Published residential mill-rate context for Summerside.
Arena and events complex for hockey, concerts, and carnival programming. Locals treat the building name as a destination by itself.
The boardwalk and port-lands edge the city is actively planning to reconnect with historic downtown. Improvement talk here sounds like
City releases mark about 150 years of harness racing heritage culminating in the Governor’s Plate during Raceway Days.
Where Summerside sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Summerside introduces itself in July through the Lobster Carnival, then doubles down with Raceway Days at Credit Union Place and Red Shores at Summerside Raceway. Harness racing is not a side note here; city releases mark a century and a half of racing heritage and still crowning Raceway Days with the Governor’s Plate. Credit Union Place is the year-round arena half of that identity, hosting hockey, skating, concerts, and the sport-tourism calendar that Sport Entertainment Tourism Summerside, or SETS, keeps pitching to national events and hometown crowds alike.
Beyond carnival week, the city is rewriting its downtown waterfront: historic downtown, waterfront boardwalk, and port lands are supposed to read as one connected district. Cairns Boulevard opening news sits in that same improvement file. The Summerside Curling and Marina Complex keeps another water-edge recreation name on the municipal menu, while Music PEI Week Awards gala hosting shows the entertainment desk is not only hockey. SETS keeps selling the same arenas to national championships after carnival banners come down.
CBC Prince Edward Island files Summerside stories into the Island feed, from long-term care to provincial politics, but the municipal voice stays specific: Prince County’s city, lobster on the carnival banner, horses on the raceway, and Credit Union Place on the tickets. City boilerplate still calls Summerside a small city with big opportunities, and residents hear that line against real Raceway Days crowds. No OpenStats City Score placement is in the datapack yet, so the profile leans on carnival, raceway, and waterfront names residents already use.
Drawn from City of Summerside, City of Summerside Lobster Carnival Raceway Days, Sport Entertainment Tourism Summerside, Downtown Waterfront Transformation Vision, CBC Prince Edward Island.
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
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Summerside Lobster Carnival pairs with Raceway Days at Credit Union Place and Summerside Raceway each July.
City releases mark about 150 years of harness racing heritage culminating in the Governor’s Plate during Raceway Days.
Sport Entertainment Tourism Summerside, or SETS, centres Credit Union Place as the city’s sport and entertainment hub.
Downtown waterfront plans call for linking the historic downtown, waterfront boardwalk, and port lands as one district.
Arena and events complex for hockey, concerts, and carnival programming. Locals treat the building name as a destination by itself.
Harness racing grounds paired with Lobster Carnival’s Raceway Days. The Governor’s Plate is the race week locals still name first.
The boardwalk and port-lands edge the city is actively planning to reconnect with historic downtown. Improvement talk here sounds like streets and public space, not a souvenir strip.
When Summerside moves in a ranking, posts new permit figures, or lands in a study, get a short note. A few sends a year, only when something changes.
No spam. Unsubscribe with one reply.
