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Thunder Bay drinking water hardness is 45.8 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Thunder Bay

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44XP
#279

#279 of 343

44% City Score XP

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7/8 pillars on the board

44%#279

Decade trail

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.

Thunder Bay drinking water

Direct municipal reading

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

Hardness
45.8 mg/L
soft
pH
8.02
Lead
0.5 μg/L

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Watershed to tap · system map

How Thunder Bay's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Thunder Bay 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 Thunder Bay

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

How Thunder Bay scores

Thunder Bay sits at City Score rank #279 with a standing of 44%, 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: indoor radon rank #31 of 327 at 159 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #26 of 57 (14.48 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

Against the national corpus, Thunder Bay carries a City Score standing of 44% (rank #279 of 343) with 7 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 9 points below the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Thunder Bay ranks #110 of 123 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is drinking-water hardness (standing 97%, rank #332 of 343, raw score 45.8). The weakest observed pillar is indoor radon (standing 9%, rank #31 of 327). Crime severity uses the Statistics Canada police-service CSI mapped to Thunder Bay, Ontario (table 35100026), not a regional proxy.

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 46 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Thunder Bay. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#279
Arena rank (of 343)
44%
City Score
7
Pillars observed

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Topic XP bars

Arena rank #279 of 343

City Score

7/8 pillars · main XP bar

44%#279
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #332

66%
Building permits

No placement

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Internet

Rank #227

34%
Radon

Rank #31

9%
Hazards

Rank #327

95%
Property tax

Rank #26

46%

Thunder Bay 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

Direct municipal readingSurface water supplyWater System of the Month · October 2026

Hometown notes

City profile

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

Thunder Bay in brief

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 2025, Thunder Bay sits at rank 340 of 343. 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 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 Thunder Bay

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

#227
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 265.7

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

#279
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.435

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 Thunder Bay, Ontario (2025, Table 35-10-0026-01).

10 editions · 2016–2025

#23
Latest · 2025 · of 102
Score 114.13

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

#332
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 45.8

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

#31
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 159.1

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

#259
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.0033510121250362387

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

#26
Latest · 2025 · of 57
Score 14.475769764216365

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

#327
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.016

Worth knowing in Thunder Bay

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 of Thunder Bay

  • City parks copy highlights an unbeatable view of the Sleeping Giant from waterfront pavilion spots.

    City of Thunder Bay

  • Go to Thunder Bay lists Mining and Forestry among key sectors for the Northwestern Ontario hub.

    Go to Thunder Bay

  • Visit Thunder Bay keeps Fort William Historical Park and the Terry Fox Monument on the see-and-do map.

    Visit Thunder Bay

Places to see

Prince Arthur's Landing

Waterfront gathering ground tied to the Marina and Marina Park. Food, art, and lake wind share the same boardwalk logic.

Mission Island Marsh

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.

Centennial Botanical Conservatory

A Fort William Parks Board Centennial project that still sits on the City recreation roster. Locals use it when Superior weather turns mean.

Fort William Historical Park

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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