Ontario · Civic arena
Chatham-Kent drinking water hardness is 229 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#262 of 343
45% City Score XP
6/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Chatham-Kent 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. This page uses a regional estimate — open the water atlas for method notes.
Full Chatham-Kent water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Windsor · vs RenfrewHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Chatham-Kent 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.
Chatham-Kent sits at City Score rank #262 with a standing of 45%, 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. Rising 26 places versus 2022 (#288 → #262).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #68 of 327 at 135 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #21 of 57 (15.15 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
Against the national corpus, Chatham-Kent carries a City Score standing of 45% (rank #262 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 8 points below the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Chatham-Kent ranks #105 of 123 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is seismic hazard (standing 60%, rank #206 of 343, raw score 0.04). The weakest observed pillar is drinking-water hardness (standing 20%, rank #70 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 229 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Chatham-Kent. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #262 of 343
6/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #70
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Chatham-Kent 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 Chatham-Kent.
A Longwoods Road drive past farm fields and quilted barns from the Tecumseh Monument west to the mouth of the Thames. Picnic
Sydenham River overnight docks in downtown Wallaceburg, one of the clearest reminders that Chatham-Kent is more than a single urban core.
Downtown Chatham Docks let boaters overnight on the Thames after entering at Lighthouse Cove on Lake St. Clair.
Where Chatham-Kent sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Chatham-Kent is one municipality and many place names. VisitCK pages send drivers along Highway 2, also called Longwoods Road, past agricultural landscapes and the Thames River Barn Quilt Trail from the Tecumseh Monument toward Lighthouse Cove at the mouth of the Thames on Lake St. Clair. Chatham holds the Civic Centre and Downtown Chatham Docks. Wallaceburg answers on the Sydenham River with its own municipal docks. Dresden and Lake Erie launches fill out a shoreline map that does not fit a single downtown postcard. Locals switch community names the way other Ontario places switch neighbourhoods.
Boating is practical geography here. Municipal trail pages list free launches on the Thames, Sydenham, Lake St. Clair, and Lake Erie, including Thames Grove Conservation Area for Chatham and year-round options in Wallaceburg. A leisurely boat run up the Thames from Lighthouse Cove lands you at downtown shops and restaurants. The Chatham Quilter's Guild helped plant roughly thirty barn quilts along that river road so the farm drive doubles as a community storyboard. Field edges, barn quilts, and river bends do more talking than a single skyline ever could.
Chatham Daily News and Chatham This Week keep Wallaceburg crime briefs beside Chatham-Kent Barnstormers sports and the wider CK civic beat, while Service Chatham-Kent handles the amalgamated errands. The hometown test for Chatham-Kent is whether you can name more than one community without leaving the municipal map. On OpenStats City Score for 2025, Chatham-Kent sits at rank 318 of 343. The local frame stays rivers, farms, and the towns that share one council table.
Drawn from VisitCK - Thames River Barn Quilt Trail, Municipality of Chatham-Kent - Boat Launches & Docks, Municipality of Chatham-Kent, Chatham Daily News / Chatham This Week.
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 Chatham-Kent 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
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.
The Thames River Barn Quilt Trail follows Highway 2 / Longwoods Road from the Tecumseh Monument to Lighthouse Cove with about thirty barn quilts.
Downtown Chatham Docks let boaters overnight on the Thames after entering at Lighthouse Cove on Lake St. Clair.
Wallaceburg keeps municipal docks on the Sydenham River with washrooms tied to downtown parks and the library area.
Chatham Quilter's Guild spearheaded the barn quilt project that VisitCK uses to tell settlement stories along the Thames.
A Longwoods Road drive past farm fields and quilted barns from the Tecumseh Monument west to the mouth of the Thames. Picnic at the monument and follow the river toward Lake St. Clair.
Transient docks on the Thames beside restaurants and shops, with boater facilities at the Chatham-Kent Civic Centre on King Street West.
Sydenham River overnight docks in downtown Wallaceburg, one of the clearest reminders that Chatham-Kent is more than a single urban core.
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