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Brantford drinking water hardness is 289 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Brantford

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53XP
#121

#121 of 343

53% City Score XP

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City Score XP

7/8 pillars on the board

53%#121

Decade trail

Brantford 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.

Brantford drinking water

Direct municipal reading

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

Hardness
289 mg/L
very hard
pH
7.4
Lead
0.2 μg/L

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Watershed to tap · system map

How Brantford's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Brantford 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 Brantford

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

Sports

Junior hockey in Brantford

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Team
Brantford Bulldogs
League
OHL
Points %
47.7%

65 GP · 62 pts · Compare CHL cities

How Brantford scores

Brantford sits at City Score rank #121 with a standing of 53%, 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: indoor radon rank #118 of 327 at 111 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #35 of 57 (13.16 mill rate). 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, Brantford carries a City Score standing of 53% (rank #121 of 343) with 7 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 0 points above the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Brantford ranks #62 of 123 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 79%, rank #72 of 343, raw score 976.6). The weakest observed pillar is drinking-water hardness (standing 1%, rank #5 of 343). Crime severity uses the Statistics Canada police-service CSI mapped to Brantford, Ontario (table 35100026), not a regional proxy.

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 289 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Brantford. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#121
Arena rank (of 343)
53%
City Score
7
Pillars observed

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #121 of 343

City Score

7/8 pillars · main XP bar

53%#121
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #5

35%
Building permits

No placement

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Internet

Rank #72

79%
Radon

Rank #118

36%
Hazards

Rank #144

42%
Property tax

Rank #35

61%

Brantford 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

Direct municipal readingSurface water supply

Hometown notes

City profile

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

Brantford in brief

Brantford keeps Telephone City on the civic shelf because the Bell Homestead National Historic Site still sits on Tutela Heights Road overlooking the Grand River. City history pages walk visitors through the house museum, the dreaming-place story above the river, and the Bell Memorial downtown. That is the heritage beat. The everyday beat is Harmony Square on Dalhousie Street, where splash pads, outdoor movies, HipFest, and Scare in the Square take turns, and Harmony Squirrel shows up like a mascot who never clocked out. Earl Haig Family Fun Park covers the summer pool, lazy river, and waterslide crowd when Harmony Square feels too downtown.

Street talk right now often means Downtown Revitalization weekly updates, plus lane work on Stanley Street and resurfacing on Colborne Street West. Market Centre Parkade is the weekend parking tip printed beside Harmony Square events, and Brantford Transit sits one block away when the square fills up. Brantford Bulldogs moves still lead Expositor sports when the hockey file is hot, and City notices about OLG partnerships keep the community-legacies language in the newsroom mix. The FUN Guide remains the recreation catalogue people actually open when they want swim lessons or a calendar without scrolling social media. Boundary-adjustment public meetings also show up on the City agenda when the map itself is under discussion.

OpenStats places Brantford at City Score rank 146 of 343 for 2026. Rankings aside, the hometown read is Grand River views from Tutela Heights, a square that behaves like a living room, and construction notices that name Colborne before they name anything else.

Drawn from Bell Homestead, Bell Homestead history, Harmony Square, City of Brantford, Brantford Expositor.

City Score over time

City Score from 2016–2025 across eight open-data pillars. Individual study placements are listed in the panels below.

0%25%50%75%100%2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
OpenStats City Score

Rankings for Brantford

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

#72
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 976.6

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

#35
Published · 2025 · of 45
Score 0.477

Only one published edition places Brantford 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

#121
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.531

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

10 editions · 2016–2025

#52
Latest · 2025 · of 102
Score 72.08

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

#118
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 111.4

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

#35
Published · 2025 · of 49
Score 0.477

Only one published edition places Brantford 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

#104
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.017705895923277197

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

#35
Latest · 2025 · of 57
Score 13.156504854368931

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

#144
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.053

Worth knowing in Brantford

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

  • City Bell Homestead history pages still explain why Brantford is called The Telephone City, tying the nickname to work commemorated at Tutela Heights.

    City of Brantford

  • Harmony Square at 89 Dalhousie Street runs year-round programming, from summer splash pad hours to winter outdoor skating.

    City of Brantford

  • Earl Haig Family Fun Park lists a leisure pool, waterslide, lazy river, splash pad, and mini-putt as the seasonal draw.

    City of Brantford

  • City home news regularly posts Downtown Revitalization weekly updates alongside street work on Colborne and Stanley.

    City of Brantford

Places to see

Bell Homestead National Historic Site

The Tutela Heights house museum overlooking the Grand River. Brantford's Telephone City claim starts here, with tours that keep the invention story tied to a real address.

Harmony Square

Downtown's default gathering place for free summer shows, movies, and winter rink time. If someone says meet at the square, this is the Dalhousie Street pin.

Earl Haig Family Fun Park

The seasonal water park on Market Street South for pool days when Harmony Square's splash pad is not enough. Mini-putt and the lazy river keep families past supper.

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