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Welland drinking water hardness is 181 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Welland

City56k pop
60XP
#34

#34 of 343

60% City Score XP

Rising
City Score XP

6/8 pillars on the board

60%#34

Decade trail

Welland packs 6 of eight open-data pillars into its composite standing. Tap a rival below to see how the hometown stacks up head-to-head.

Welland drinking water

Regional estimate from nearest municipal sample

Hardness, pH, and lead from municipal reports on the OpenStats water atlas. This page uses a regional estimate — open the water atlas for method notes.

Hardness
181 mg/L
very hard
pH
7.9
Lead
0.5 μg/L

Full Welland water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Ajax · vs Plympton-WyomingHardness guide

Watershed to tap · system map

How Welland's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Welland 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 Welland

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

How Welland scores

Rising+48

Welland sits at City Score rank #34 with a standing of 60%, from 6 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 48 places versus 2022 (#82 → #34).

Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #186 of 327 at 96 Bq/m³ survey mean. Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

On the latest OpenStats pass, Welland carries a City Score standing of 60% (rank #34 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 7 points above the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Welland ranks #21 of 123 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is population growth (standing 92%, rank #29 of 343, +2.9% annual growth). The weakest observed pillar is seismic hazard (standing 25%, rank #86 of 343). Crime severity uses the Statistics Canada police-service CSI mapped to Niagara Regional Police Service (StatCan CMA police area) (table 35100026), not a regional proxy.

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 181 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Welland. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#34
Arena rank (of 343)
60%
City Score
6
Pillars observed
Rising+48
vs 2022
#82 → #34

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #34 of 343

City Score

6/8 pillars · main XP bar

60%#34
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #146

40%
Building permits

No placement

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Internet

Rank #82

76%
Radon

Rank #186

57%
Hazards

Rank #86

25%
Property tax

No placement

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Welland 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

Rising +48

In the news

Data desk
  • · Infrastructure

    Barrie wastewater funding: $129M DCRP pledge meets climbing permit and growth ranks

    Ontario and Canada will send up to $129 million to Barrie through the Development Charge Reduction Program for wastewater plant upgrades, tied to a 50% residential development charge cut through March 2029. OpenStats already ranks Barrie #8 on City Score with growth rank #30 and permit value rank #109.

Hometown notes

City profile

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

Welland in brief

Welland lands on the Ontario map as a place people still call home.

Resource work and regional booms piled new layers on the old town plot. Festivals and street names carry pieces of that plotline into the present.

Agriculture, forestry, tourism, and public-sector jobs still mix on the local tax roll the way many Ontario towns do. On OpenStats City Score, Welland ranks 4 of 343. Municipal recreation, parks, trails, and utility pages remain the best live guide to how Welland explains itself today.

Permits, mill rates, broadband, radon, hazards, and water quality may show measured values, regional estimates, or empty states until a verified source is linked. That is the same honest pattern OpenStats uses for smaller places already in the corpus, and it keeps Welland comparable on the hometown board without inventing numbers. Seasonal recreation programming, winter maintenance, and summer festival calendars still fill the municipal news feed most years. Library branches, arena ice, and aquatics schedules are the practical anchors families check before planning a weekend in Welland. Seasonal recreation programming, winter maintenance, and summer festival calendars still fill the municipal news feed most years. Library branches, arena ice, and aquatics schedules are the practical anchors families check before planning a weekend in Welland. Seasonal recreation programming, winter maintenance, and summer festival calendars still fill the municipal news feed most years. Library branches, arena ice, and aquatics schedules are the practical anchors families check before planning a weekend in Welland.

Drawn from Municipality of Welland, CBC Toronto / Ontario.

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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OpenStats City Score

Rankings for Welland

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

#82
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 900

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

#34
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.599

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 Niagara Regional Police Service (StatCan CMA police area) (2025, Table 35-10-0026-01).

10 editions · 2016–2025

#91
Latest · 2025 · of 102
Score 53.84

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

#146
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 181

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

#186
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 95.7

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

#29
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.029452754808138994

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

#86
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.095

Worth knowing in Welland

Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.

Places to see

Welland downtown

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