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Timmins drinking water hardness is 133 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#43 of 343
61% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Timmins 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 Timmins from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Timmins.
Timmins sits at City Score rank #43 with a standing of 61%, 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 37 places versus 2022 (#80 → #43).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #143 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #206 of 343 at 133 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #191 of 343 (9.73 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 Timmins.
A landmark open pit with its own City feedback channel. Locals treat the name as geography as much as history.
BIA-organized core of shops and seasonal events, from Santa Claus Parade to pop-ups and urban park days. It is where the Mattagami city
The City maintains a public Hollinger Open Pit feedback page, keeping the pit in current civic business.
Where Timmins sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Timmins sits along the Mattagami River in Northeastern Ontario, and Tourism Timmins still sells the place on mineral wealth and outdoor seasons in the same breath. Hollinger is the name that keeps the gold-camp past in daily civic talk: the City runs a Hollinger Open Pit feedback page, and the Timmins Museum points visitors to Hollinger House as a historical stop. The museum itself, the National Exhibition Centre on Second Avenue, is where heritage exhibits and community programs share a roof. Algonquin Blvd carries City Hall traffic; Service Timmins is the phone-and-counter brand when something needs fixing.
Downtown Timmins BIA speaks for a few hundred core businesses and fills the calendar with Santa Claus Parade nights, pop-up shops, and urban park gatherings. Porcupine Health Unit keeps the older Porcupine label alive on the municipal directory. Junior hockey fans follow the Timmins Rock; Timmins Transit covers the practical rides across a big northern footprint. Come North is the tourism invitation, honest about latitude without turning the city into brochure fiction.
The Daily Press front mixes ward politics with harder crime files and the occasional heritage-building reuse story, which is the tempo of a working northern city. Mining and mineral-resource talk stays present even when the day's headline is somewhere else on the highway. On the OpenStats City Score for 2026, Timmins sits at rank 119 of 125. Hometown character is Mattagami light on the water, Hollinger names on the map, and a downtown that still throws its own parade.
Drawn from City of Timmins, Tourism Timmins, Timmins Museum, Downtown Timmins BIA, The Daily Press.
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.
Tourism Timmins situates the city along the Mattagami River and leans on mineral resources plus lakes-and-rivers recreation.
The City maintains a public Hollinger Open Pit feedback page, keeping the pit in current civic business.
Downtown Timmins BIA describes a collective of about 250 businesses in the core.
Timmins Rock is the NOJHL club linked from the City's find-or-learn pages.
A landmark open pit with its own City feedback channel. Locals treat the name as geography as much as history.
Heritage and visual arts destination on Second Avenue, with Hollinger House among the historical points of interest. Weekday and weekend hours keep it usable for residents, not only tourists.
BIA-organized core of shops and seasonal events, from Santa Claus Parade to pop-ups and urban park days. It is where the Mattagami city shows its main-street face.
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