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Wolfville drinking water hardness is 142 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Wolfville

Arena rank #269 of 172 · 43% XP

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7/8 pillars on the board

43%#269

Wolfville 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.

Wolfville drinking water

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

Hardness
142 mg/L
hard
pH
7.5
Lead
0.6 μg/L

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Local numbers for Wolfville

Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Wolfville.

How Wolfville scores

Wolfville sits at City Score rank #269 with a standing of 43%, 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 #234 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #191 of 343 at 142 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #22 of 343 (13.33 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

#269
Arena rank (of 172)
43%
City Score
7
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43%#269
Drinking water

Rank #227

66%
Building permits

Rank #234

32%
Internet

Rank #185

46%
Radon

Rank #191

56%
Hazards

No placement

Property tax

Rank #22

6%

Achievements

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Hometown notes

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Earlier years: 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023

Wolfville in brief

Wolfville is home to pubs, bars, cafes and shops.

Wolfville grew the familiar Canadian way: schools, rinks, churches, and a main street that still anchors weekends. Festivals and street names carry pieces of that plotline into the present.

Wolfville service economy ties to county seats, highway corridors, and regional employers that keep main street businesses busy through the year. On OpenStats City Score, Wolfville ranks 269 of 7. Municipal recreation, parks, trails, and utility pages remain the best live guide to how Wolfville 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 Wolfville 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 Wolfville. 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 Wolfville. 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 Wolfville.

Drawn from Municipality of Wolfville, CBC Nova Scotia.

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 Wolfville

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 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

#185
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 377.2

Construction · OpenStats

OpenStats Building Permit Value

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

#234
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 326637028

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). 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

#269
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.428

Safety · OpenStats

OpenStats Crime Severity Index

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

#178
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 72.96

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

#227
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 142

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

#191
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 142

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

#149
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.012871646120377086

Property tax · OpenStats

OpenStats Residential Mill Rates

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

#22
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 13.334487211715818

Worth knowing in Wolfville

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Wolfville downtown

Historic main street blocks, local shops, and civic buildings remain the walking-tour version of Wolfville.

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