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Tillsonburg drinking water hardness is 81 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
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#5 of 343
71% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
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Tillsonburg 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 Tillsonburg from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Tillsonburg.
Tillsonburg sits at City Score rank #5 with a standing of 71%, 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 #229 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #130 of 343 at 181 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #286 of 343 (7.93 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 Tillsonburg.
Shoreline park next to the Community Centre and waterpark, with pavilion shade and an accessible playground. Locals treat it as the default
Mayor Tillson's mansion and the town museum under one roof. It is where Tillsonburg explains itself to visiting classes and curious
Lake Lisgar Waterpark advertises a heated pool and a 186-foot giant twister waterslide for the summer season.
Where Tillsonburg sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Tillsonburg organizes summer around Lake Lisgar. Memorial Park sits on the shore with mature trees and a picnic pavilion, steps from the Community Centre and Lake Lisgar Waterpark, where the heated pool and giant twister waterslide set the family calendar from Father's Day weekend into early September. The Town lists fourteen neighbourhood parks; Memorial Park is the one people name first. If you want a hoop, J.L. Scott McLean Outdoor Recreation Pad on Hardy Ave or South Ridge Park will do.
History has a street address. Annandale National Historic Site holds the 1880s mansion built by first mayor E.D. Tillson and a community museum with tens of thousands of artifacts, so school groups and weekend visitors share the same door on Tillson Ave. Visiting Tillsonburg pages also point to Station Arts Centre on Bridge Street W, which keeps the creative half of town visible without pretending this is a big-city arts district. T:GO Transit is the in-town mini-bus brand: fixed route, Monday to Friday, exact fare, the practical answer when someone asks how you get across town without a car.
Tillsonburg News fronts mix town collisions with wider Oxford and Norfolk county politics, which is how a Southwestern Ontario town feels wired into its neighbours. The civic centre of gravity stays local: parks, waterpark season, Annandale tours, and whether T:GO is running on time. On the OpenStats City Score for 2026, Tillsonburg sits at rank 46 of 125. Hometown character is Lake Lisgar first, then the Tillson name carved into Annandale.
Drawn from Town of Tillsonburg, Lake Lisgar Waterpark, Annandale National Historic Site, T:GO Transit, Tillsonburg News.
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.
Memorial Park is called out as the best known of Tillsonburg's fourteen neighbourhood parks, on the shores of Lake Lisgar.
Lake Lisgar Waterpark advertises a heated pool and a 186-foot giant twister waterslide for the summer season.
Annandale National Historic Site is the 1880s mansion of first mayor E.D. Tillson, plus a museum collection of more than 18,000 artifacts.
T:GO In-Town Transit runs an accessible fixed-route mini-bus Monday to Friday roughly 5:55 a.m. to 5:55 p.m.
The summer magnet on Lake Lisgar, with zero beach entry, spray features, and the twister slide. Picnic grass sits beside the pool deck for families who stay all afternoon.
Mayor Tillson's mansion and the town museum under one roof. It is where Tillsonburg explains itself to visiting classes and curious weekenders.
Shoreline park next to the Community Centre and waterpark, with pavilion shade and an accessible playground. Locals treat it as the default meet-up green.
Visitor listing on Bridge Street W that keeps arts programming in the same downtown conversation as Annandale. Small-town creative space with a fixed address.
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