New Brunswick · Civic arena
Bathurst drinking water hardness is 208 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#258 of 343
45% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Bathurst packs 5 of eight open-data pillars into its composite standing. Tap a rival below to see how the hometown stacks up head-to-head.
Rivalries on deck
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.
Full Bathurst water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Campbellton · vs Saint JohnHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Bathurst from municipal and provincial water records. Open the animated map for the full watershed-to-tap diagram — no nested topic navigation here.
Permits, tax, internet, radon, hazards, drinking water, and sports rankings where a CHL hometown applies.
Sports
67 GP · 86 pts · Compare CHL cities
Bathurst sits at City Score rank #258 with a standing of 45%, from 5 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 60 places versus 2022 (#318 → #258).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #1 of 327 at 385 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.
Among Canadian cities on the hub, Bathurst carries a City Score standing of 45% (rank #258 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 3 points below the New Brunswick peer average across 16 ranked cities. Within New Brunswick, Bathurst ranks #13 of 16 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is population growth (standing 65%, rank #120 of 343, +1.6% annual growth). The weakest observed pillar is indoor radon (standing 0%, rank #1 of 327).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 208 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Bathurst. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #258 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #101
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Rank #154
Rank #1
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Bathurst pillar standing
Eight equal-weight City Score pillars, 2025 panel year.
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
Published residential mill-rate context for Bathurst.
City waterfront promenade for a short walk after downtown errands. It is the everyday bay edge rather than a day-trip destination.
Salt-marsh and forest reserve with several kilometres of trail inside city recreation pages. Hikers also treat it as the start
Youghall Beach Park is the named Chaleur Bay swim spot on the City recreation pages.
Where Bathurst sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Bathurst calls itself the Hub City for northeastern New Brunswick, and the water makes that feel literal. Youghall Beach Park sits on Chaleur Bay with a designated swim zone, so summer talk is less about a generic beach and more about whether you are heading to Youghall. Downtown, the Promenade Waterfront is the short waterfront walk after errands. Coronation Park is in the middle of a master-plan survey, which is how a hometown park file sounds when residents are asked what comes next.
Daly Point Nature Reserve stretches salt marsh, fields, and mixed forest across more than forty hectares, with winding trails that locals treat as the easy nature loop. It also marks the eastern trailhead of the Sentier Nepisiguit Mi'gmaq Trail, the long backcountry route Chaleur Tourism and the City both point to. Neighbourhood notices still name Parkwood and Sunset together when summer programs or water-main flushing hit those streets. Bridge / Miramichi Reconstruction stays on the homepage as a named construction file, the kind of civic project people navigate around rather than celebrate.
When New Brunswick Day arrives, programming often lands at the K.C. Irving Regional Centre, the arena and event hall that doubles as the city's big indoor stage. Chaleur Tourism wraps Bathurst into a wider bay region with Belle-Baie and rural districts, but the municipal voice stays Hub City first. Geosmin notices and water flushing remind residents that bay-town life still includes ordinary public-works seasons. Bathurst is Chaleur Bay swimming at Youghall, a promenade for an evening walk, and Daly Point when you want the marsh trail without leaving town.
Drawn from City of Bathurst, Youghall Beach Park, Daly Point Nature Reserve, Chaleur Tourism.
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.
Safety · OpenStats
Statistics Canada does not publish a police-service Crime Severity Index that OpenStats can match to Bathurst without copying a province, CMA, or another city. The safety pillar scores at median standing (50%) on City Score, the same rule used for other missing pillars.
Connectivity · OpenStats
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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
Sports · OpenStats
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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
Only one published edition places Bathurst in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Composite · OpenStats
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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
Water · OpenStats
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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
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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
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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
Sports · OpenStats
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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
Only one published edition places Bathurst in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Growth · OpenStats
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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
Hazards · OpenStats
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
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.
Municipal branding leads with Hub City for northeastern New Brunswick rather than a tourist slogan.
Youghall Beach Park is the named Chaleur Bay swim spot on the City recreation pages.
Daly Point is listed as the eastern trailhead of the Sentier Nepisiguit Mi'gmaq Trail.
Coronation Park has an active master-plan survey asking residents to shape the park's next chapter.
Municipal beach on Chaleur Bay with a designated swimming zone. It is the summer place-name Bathurst uses when the bay is warm enough.
Salt-marsh and forest reserve with several kilometres of trail inside city recreation pages. Hikers also treat it as the start of the longer Nepisiguit Mi'gmaq Trail.
City waterfront promenade for a short walk after downtown errands. It is the everyday bay edge rather than a day-trip destination.
Arena and civic venue that hosts New Brunswick Day programming and year-round events. When the Hub City needs an indoor stage, this is the building named first.
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