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Windsor drinking water hardness is 110 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Windsor

Census_metropolitan_area423k pop
45XP
#260

#260 of 343

45% City Score XP

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City Score XP

8/8 pillars on the board

45%#260

Decade trail

Windsor packs 8 of eight open-data pillars into its composite standing. Tap a rival below to see how the hometown stacks up head-to-head.

Windsor drinking water

Direct municipal reading

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

Hardness
110 mg/L
moderately hard
pH
7.8
Lead
0.6 μg/L

Full Windsor water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Renfrew · vs LakeshoreHardness guide

Watershed to tap · system map

How Windsor's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Windsor 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 Windsor

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

Sports

Junior hockey in Windsor

Full sports page →
Team
Windsor Spitfires
League
OHL
Points %
49.2%

64 GP · 63 pts · Compare CHL cities

How Windsor scores

Dropping−119

Windsor sits at City Score rank #260 with a standing of 45%, from 8 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. Dropping 119 places versus 2022 (#141 → #260).

Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #23 of 25 (2025); indoor radon rank #38 of 327 at 156 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #5 of 57 (18.37 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

In the 2025 City Score edition, Windsor carries a City Score standing of 45% (rank #260 of 343) with 8 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 8 points below the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Windsor ranks #104 of 123 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is drinking-water hardness (standing 83%, rank #286 of 343, raw score 110). The weakest observed pillar is property tax (standing 9%, rank #5 of 57). Crime severity uses the Statistics Canada police-service CSI mapped to Windsor, Ontario (table 35100026), not a regional proxy.

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 110 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Windsor. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#260
Arena rank (of 343)
45%
City Score
8
Pillars observed
Dropping−119
vs 2022
#141 → #260

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #260 of 343

City Score

8/8 pillars · main XP bar

45%#260
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #286

54%
Building permits

Rank #23

12%
Internet

Rank #118

66%
Radon

Rank #38

12%
Hazards

Rank #270

79%
Property tax

Rank #5

9%

Windsor 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

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Hometown notes

City profile

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

Windsor in brief

Windsor orients itself to the Detroit River before almost anything else. The municipal riverfront trail runs more than five kilometres from Ambassador Park and Centennial Park into Dieppe Gardens, then along Festival Plaza toward the Bert Weeks Memorial Garden and the Clifford and Joan Hatch Wildflower Garden. Odette Sculpture Park keeps large outdoor works on that same walk year-round. Dieppe Gardens is the downtown veterans park that locals treat as both memorial and meeting place, with the river doing the rest of the framing on a clear day or a windy one.

Away from the water, recreation branding runs through ActiveWindsor.ca, and Adventure Bay Family Water Park on Pitt Street West is the splash destination the city keeps extending through summer. Jackson Park shows up whenever Windsor lists favourite gardens and picnic spots inland from the border edge. Transit Windsor sits in the same civic toolkit as 311 when people need a practical next step rather than a postcard, and Let's Talk Windsor is the engagement portal when Council wants project feedback.

The Windsor Star still covers the wider Windsor-Essex beat: hospital logistics, Pride Fest weekends, and Spitfires nights that pull the city into junior-hockey headlines. Festival season and rink nights share the same local desk without anyone needing to explain why the river matters. On the OpenStats City Score for 2025, Windsor sits at rank 246 of 343. The hometown sentence is shorter than any ranking: walk the riverfront, name Dieppe Gardens and Festival Plaza, and you already sound local.

Drawn from City of Windsor, City of Windsor riverfront trail, City of Windsor recreation, Windsor Star.

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 Windsor

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

#118
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 765.9

Construction · OpenStats

OpenStats Building Permit Value per Resident

OpenStats

Cities ranked by calendar-year municipal building permit value per resident (total permit dollars divided by the OpenStats population field). Permit totals use verified municipality-grain rows (Statistics Canada CSD or equivalent municipal open data). Population uses Statistics Canada Census 2021 (tables 98-10-0006-01, 98-10-0002-01). Cities without a verified municipal permit series are unplaced; City Score uses median standing on the construction pillar.

Single edition · 2025

#23
Published · 2025 · of 25
Score 1668.1257837825049

Only one published edition places Windsor in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Sports · OpenStats

OpenStats CHL Points Percentage

OpenStats

Canadian Hockey League (OHL, WHL, QMJHL) member cities ranked by regular-season points percentage. One CHL team maps to each OpenStats hometown slug; standings snapshot is curated from public league tables.

Single edition · 2025

#34
Published · 2025 · of 45
Score 0.492

Only one published edition places Windsor in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

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

#260
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.449

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

10 editions · 2016–2025

#79
Latest · 2025 · of 102
Score 55.39

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

#286
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 110

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

#38
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 156.4

Sports · OpenStats

OpenStats Local Sports Depth

OpenStats

Hometowns with a mapped junior hockey franchise ranked by local sports depth: league tier (CHL member leagues = 1.0, MHL = 0.65) multiplied by regular-season points percentage. Surfaces cities with both a franchise and a strong standings year; not a City Score pillar input.

Single edition · 2025

#34
Published · 2025 · of 49
Score 0.492

Only one published edition places Windsor in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

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

#171
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.011381198889639134

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

#5
Latest · 2025 · of 57
Score 18.3703120665742

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

#270
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.032

Housing

CMHC Average 2-Bedroom Rent — Lowest Rent

Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation

Average rent for purpose-built 2-bedroom apartments (all tenants) from CMHC Rental Market Survey. Rank 1 = lowest average rent among covered CMAs.

Single edition · 2025

#3
Published · 2025 · of 18
Score 1454

Only one published edition places Windsor in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Worth knowing in Windsor

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

  • The municipal riverfront trail is listed at 5.17 kilometres with views across the Detroit River.

    City of Windsor

  • Dieppe Gardens is the downtown riverfront park the City describes as honouring veterans with monuments.

    City of Windsor

  • Odette Sculpture Park functions as an outdoor gallery of large contemporary works open year-round on the riverfront route.

    City of Windsor

  • Adventure Bay Family Water Park is the city aquatic destination promoted through ActiveWindsor.ca and summer hours notices.

    City of Windsor

Places to see

Dieppe Gardens

Downtown riverfront park on the trail between Centennial Park and Festival Plaza. Monuments and river views make it both a memorial stop and a daily walking landmark.

Odette Sculpture Park

Outdoor sculpture stretch on the riverfront route. Locals use it as the art walk between gardens without needing a ticket booth.

Adventure Bay Family Water Park

Indoor-outdoor city water park on Pitt Street West. Summer hours and Pathway to Potential discounts keep it in the municipal recreation conversation.

Jackson Park

Inland municipal park that surfaces whenever Windsor lists favourite gardens and picnic grounds away from the river edge.

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