Ontario · Civic arena
Burlington drinking water hardness is 124 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#59 of 343
57% City Score XP
6/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Burlington packs 6 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.
Full Burlington water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Fort Erie · vs CambridgeHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Burlington 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.
Burlington sits at City Score rank #59 with a standing of 57%, from 6 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 #226 of 327 at 85 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #50 of 57 (9.05 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, Burlington carries a City Score standing of 57% (rank #59 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 4 points above the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Burlington ranks #34 of 123 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 91%, rank #31 of 343, raw score 1000). The weakest observed pillar is population growth (standing 7%, rank #319 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 124 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Burlington. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #59 of 343
6/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #253
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Burlington 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 Burlington.
The signature walk over Lake Ontario from Spencer Smith Park, open late and lit by request for community causes. Locals check the beacon
The sandy lakefront alternative with trails, pavilion, and seasonal concession. It is the beach day when Spencer Smith is reserved
City waterfront pages list Beachway Park, Discovery Landing, Spencer Smith Park, and the pier as the four main downtown waterfront areas.
Where Burlington sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Burlington's downtown waterfront is a Lakeshore Road story first. Spencer Smith Park holds the promenade, festival lawn, Rotary Centennial Pond, and the view toward the Skyway Bridge. Brant Street Pier pushes 137 metres into Lake Ontario with a beacon people request by colour for civic causes; fog can flip it to lighthouse red without anyone filing a complaint form. Beachway Park keeps the sandy stretch and lakeside trails a short hop west at 1100 Lakeshore Road. Discovery Landing faces the water as the landmark building that also houses Spencer's on the Waterfront. Burlington Transit Routes 10 and 4 are the municipal directions printed for getting to Spencer Smith without circling for parking.
Arts stops sit in the same frame: Art Gallery of Burlington and Joseph Brant Museum share the City's downtown waterfront checklist. Inside Halton coverage keeps parks renewal, Jazz on the Plaza, and free summer gear in city parks on the local front, while Taste of Burlington runs as the winter prix-fixe dining festival under Discover Burlington. City notices still surface Ontario Land Tribunal files on Lakeshore Road development and budget talk on the municipal home. Waterfront Trail language shows up whenever walking or cycling along the lake is the point, and pier lighting requests have their own civic etiquette.
On the OpenStats City Score for 2025, Burlington sits at rank 173 of 343. Rankings aside, the hometown read is pier lights after supper, Beachway sand when the wind cooperates, and Spencer Smith as the place you name before you name a restaurant.
Drawn from Downtown Waterfront, Brant Street Pier, City of Burlington, Inside Halton, Taste of Burlington.
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 Burlington 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
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
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). 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
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 (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
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
The Globe and Mail
2023 data partnership with Environics Analytics ranking 439 Canadian communities on ten livability categories.
Single edition · 2023
Only one published edition places Burlington in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Livability
Maclean's
Successor-style municipal livability ranking published by Maclean's for 2019 and 2021 (no 2020 edition).
Single edition · 2019
Only one published edition places Burlington in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Livability
MoneySense
Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
6 editions · 2013–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Brant Street Pier extends 137 m into Lake Ontario from Spencer Smith Park and runs a nightly beacon lighting program for civic causes.
City waterfront pages list Beachway Park, Discovery Landing, Spencer Smith Park, and the pier as the four main downtown waterfront areas.
Rotary Centennial Pond at Spencer Smith Park is framed for winter skating and summer model sailboats.
Inside Halton local coverage regularly tracks Burlington parks programming, including Jazz on the Plaza.
The signature walk over Lake Ontario from Spencer Smith Park, open late and lit by request for community causes. Locals check the beacon colour the way other towns check a clock tower.
Downtown's waterfront living room for festivals, the pier, and Skyway Bridge views. If Burlington is meeting outside, the pin is usually here on Lakeshore Road.
The sandy lakefront alternative with trails, pavilion, and seasonal concession. It is the beach day when Spencer Smith is reserved for a festival footprint.
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