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Windsor drinking water hardness is 150 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
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#74 of 343
57% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Windsor 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 Windsor from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Windsor.
Windsor sits at City Score rank #74 with a standing of 57%, 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 29 places versus 2022 (#103 → #74).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #178 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #109 of 343 at 200 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #219 of 343 (9.08 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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Achievements
Published residential mill-rate context for Windsor.
Indoor-outdoor city water park on Pitt Street West. Summer hours and Pathway to Potential discounts keep it in the municipal recreation
Outdoor sculpture stretch on the riverfront route. Locals use it as the art walk between gardens without needing a ticket booth.
Dieppe Gardens is the downtown riverfront park the City describes as honouring veterans with monuments.
Where Windsor sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
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 2026, Windsor sits at rank 65 of 125. 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 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
Housing
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
Only one published edition places Windsor in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Housing
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Purpose-built rental apartment vacancy rate from CMHC Rental Market Survey (October). Rank 1 = highest vacancy (most available rental stock among covered CMAs).
2 editions · 2024–2025
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.
The municipal riverfront trail is listed at 5.17 kilometres with views across the Detroit River.
Dieppe Gardens is the downtown riverfront park the City describes as honouring veterans with monuments.
Odette Sculpture Park functions as an outdoor gallery of large contemporary works open year-round on the riverfront route.
Adventure Bay Family Water Park is the city aquatic destination promoted through ActiveWindsor.ca and summer hours notices.
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.
Outdoor sculpture stretch on the riverfront route. Locals use it as the art walk between gardens without needing a ticket booth.
Indoor-outdoor city water park on Pitt Street West. Summer hours and Pathway to Potential discounts keep it in the municipal recreation conversation.
Inland municipal park that surfaces whenever Windsor lists favourite gardens and picnic grounds away from the river edge.
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