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Thunder Bay drinking water hardness is 277 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
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#329 of 343
34% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
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Thunder Bay 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.
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Hardness, pH, and lead from municipal reports on the OpenStats water atlas.
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Source, treatment, and distribution for Thunder Bay from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Thunder Bay.
Thunder Bay sits at City Score rank #329 with a standing of 34%, 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. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #138 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #71 of 343 at 227 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #249 of 343 (8.45 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
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Published residential mill-rate context for Thunder Bay.
A Fort William Parks Board Centennial project that still sits on the City recreation roster. Locals use it when Superior weather turns mean.
Conservation area with an accessible boardwalk and viewing mound on the City parks list. It is the quieter Superior stop when the marina is
City parks copy highlights an unbeatable view of the Sleeping Giant from waterfront pavilion spots.
Where Thunder Bay sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Thunder Bay orients itself to Lake Superior the way prairie cities orient to a river. The Marina sits on Sleeping Giant Parkway and ties straight into Prince Arthur's Landing and Marina Park, so waterfront talk is not abstract. Sleeping Giant is the silhouette people point to when they explain the view. Mission Island Marsh offers the boardwalk version of the same shoreline habit. Inland, the Centennial Botanical Conservatory still carries its Fort William Parks Board Centennial origin in the City's own parks copy.
Heritage names refuse to die. Visit Thunder Bay lists Fort William Historical Park beside Cruise Port Thunder Bay and the Terry Fox Monument on Highway 11/17, so Port Arthur and Fort William still echo even when the amalgamated city answers the phone. Go to Thunder Bay pitches Mining and Forestry as key sectors and calls the place the Northwestern Ontario hub. That hub feel shows up when wildfire season fills CBC Thunder Bay fronts and the whole northwest checks the same smoke map.
Community pages celebrate quieter anchors too: Waverley Library marking a big birthday, South Core Roar finding its feet as a newer downtown roar. Biking, Walking and Trails is a Recreation menu item because people actually use the paths between the marina and the older neighbourhoods. On the OpenStats City Score for 2026, Thunder Bay sits at rank 110 of 125. The hometown read is Superior weather, a Sleeping Giant postcard you can see from errands, and a waterfront that still answers to Prince Arthur's Landing.
Drawn from City of Thunder Bay, City of Thunder Bay marina, Visit Thunder Bay, Go to Thunder Bay, CBC Thunder Bay.
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
Livability
MoneySense
Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
4 editions · 2014–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
The municipal Marina is on Sleeping Giant Parkway and is integrated with Prince Arthur's Landing and Marina Park.
City parks copy highlights an unbeatable view of the Sleeping Giant from waterfront pavilion spots.
Go to Thunder Bay lists Mining and Forestry among key sectors for the Northwestern Ontario hub.
Visit Thunder Bay keeps Fort William Historical Park and the Terry Fox Monument on the see-and-do map.
Waterfront gathering ground tied to the Marina and Marina Park. Food, art, and lake wind share the same boardwalk logic.
Conservation area with an accessible boardwalk and viewing mound on the City parks list. It is the quieter Superior stop when the marina is busy.
A Fort William Parks Board Centennial project that still sits on the City recreation roster. Locals use it when Superior weather turns mean.
Tourism see-and-do listing that keeps the Fort William name alive for visitors and school groups. It is heritage without pretending the twin cities never existed.
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