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OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Centre Wellington.
City Score #74 (2022) → #98 (2025)
Centre Wellington sits at City Score rank #98 with a standing of 47%, from 8 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. Dropping 24 places versus 2022 (#74 → #98).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #81 of 172 (2025); indoor radon rank #35 of 117 at 131 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #58 of 172 (12.26 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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Documented pro, junior, university, and high-school teams tied to Centre Wellington.
Published residential mill-rate context for Centre Wellington.
Victoria Park access leads to gorge views, the Tooth of Time, and Lover's Leap above the meeting of the Grand River and Irvine Creek. It is
Home base for Open Sky Live summer concerts and a steady arts calendar that pairs with the Elora Sculpture Project downtown.
The municipal walking tour points out the Tooth of Time from the Upper Grand Gorge Trail at Victoria Park.
Where Centre Wellington sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Centre Wellington is the municipal name. Elora and Fergus are what people actually say. Township Explore CW pages sell the pair as heritage towns on dramatic cliffs and water, with Salem tucked onto the tourist maps and an Elora & Fergus Tourism desk at 10 East Mill Street. Wellington Advertiser shorthand simply calls the place CW when the mayoral race heats up. Separate downtowns, shared roads, and a visitor industry that treats a getaway afternoon as one loop through both cores.
Elora's self-guided walk sends you across the Jack R. MacDonald Pedestrian Bridge, past the Elora mill on West Mill Street, and up to Victoria Park for Upper Grand Gorge Trail views of the Tooth of Time and Lover's Leap, where the Grand River meets Irvine Creek. Downtown Fergus answers with the Pipes, Plaid and Pageantry Parade, the Fergus Grand Theatre tourism desk, and a business beat that still talks about the Nexans Fergus cable plant. The gorge draws the cameras; the cable plant and council races keep the township grounded.
Arts fill the calendar between the gorge and the parade. Elora Centre for the Arts runs Open Sky Live summer concerts, the Elora Sculpture Project lines Mill Street from May to October, and the Elora Fergus Studio Tour opens workshops in the fall. Wellington County Museum & Archives adds its own summer concert series. On OpenStats City Score for 2026, Centre Wellington sits at rank 55 of 125. The local frame stays Elora, Fergus, and the Grand.
Drawn from Township of Centre Wellington - Explore CW, Township of Centre Wellington - Tour Centre Wellington, Township of Centre Wellington - Elora & Fergus Tourism, Wellington Advertiser.
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
sports · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities ranked by weighted count of documented local teams (pro, junior, university, high-school hubs). Rank 1 = deepest documented sports footprint among covered seed cities. Not a claim about on-field success. See sports methodology for weights and gaps.
Single edition · 2025
Only one published edition places Centre Wellington in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
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
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 Centre Wellington 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.
4 editions · 2014–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Elora & Fergus Tourism keeps its main information centre at 10 East Mill Street in Elora, with a Fergus desk at the Grand Theatre.
The municipal walking tour points out the Tooth of Time from the Upper Grand Gorge Trail at Victoria Park.
Downtown Fergus stages a Pipes, Plaid and Pageantry Parade on the township events calendar.
Wellington Advertiser business coverage treats the Nexans Fergus cable plant as a local industry marker.
Victoria Park access leads to gorge views, the Tooth of Time, and Lover's Leap above the meeting of the Grand River and Irvine Creek. It is the outdoors reason people drive to Elora.
The mill at the end of West Mill Street anchors the limestone commercial core. The Jack R. MacDonald Pedestrian Bridge gives the postcard river crossing a few steps away.
Home base for Open Sky Live summer concerts and a steady arts calendar that pairs with the Elora Sculpture Project downtown.
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