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OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Cobourg.
City Score #98 (2022) → #68 (2025)
Cobourg sits at City Score rank #68 with a standing of 53%, 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. Rising 30 places versus 2022 (#98 → #68).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #109 of 172 (2025); indoor radon rank #67 of 117 at 101 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #23 of 172 (14.92 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 Cobourg.
Published residential mill-rate context for Cobourg.
The sand stretch that hosts the Cobourg Sandcastle Festival and everyday lake days. Festival guidance steers visitors to park downtown and
Waterfront marina that doubles as a Sandcastle Festival passport stop and shuttle point. Pair it with Victoria Park for a full
The Town runs civil marriage ceremonies in the Victoria Hall Court Room.
Where Cobourg sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Cobourg faces Lake Ontario with a beach that needs little introduction and a hall that does. Victoria Hall's clock tower is the landmark the town still scaffolds and repaints every decade or so, and civil weddings still happen in its Court Room. Experience Cobourg sells lakeside life: historic streets, sandy beach, waterfront trail, and a downtown that is walkable before you even reach the sand. Festival weekends remind visitors to park downtown first, then make their way to the water.
Victoria Beach and Cobourg Beach are the same shoreline in different town voices, with Victoria Park next door for festival overflow. The Cobourg Sandcastle Festival turns that sand into an August showcase, with stops that pull people between the Cobourg Community Centre, Victoria Hall, the Art Gallery of Northumberland, the Experience Cobourg hub, and Cobourg Marina. Cobourg Transit covers the rest of town with fixed routes and on-demand trips when the beach shuttle is not the story. Summer here is measured in sandcastle weekends and ordinary Tuesday swims.
Northumberland News covers Cobourg inside a wider county beat, from police service updates to mayoral campaign statements, while Keepin' Up in Cobourg is the town's own Q&A desk for residents. Invest Cobourg and the Seniors Activity Centre sit on the civic homepage beside election pages for 2026. On OpenStats City Score for 2026, Cobourg sits at rank 48 of 125. The hometown pitch stays beach first, Victoria Hall second, and Northumberland county news in the background.
Drawn from Town of Cobourg, Town of Cobourg - Victoria Hall Clock Tower, Experience Cobourg, Northumberland News.
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
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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
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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
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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). 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
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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
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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
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 Cobourg 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
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.
Victoria Hall's clock tower needs restoration painting every 10 to 15 years, and the bell goes quiet while crews work.
The Town runs civil marriage ceremonies in the Victoria Hall Court Room.
Cobourg Sandcastle Festival returns each August to Victoria Beach with park programming next door in Victoria Park.
Cobourg Transit offers both fixed-route and on-demand service across town.
The sand stretch that hosts the Cobourg Sandcastle Festival and everyday lake days. Festival guidance steers visitors to park downtown and walk or shuttle to the water.
Downtown civic landmark with a clock tower locals treat as the town's signature silhouette. Customer service, ceremonies, and tower maintenance all orbit the same building.
Waterfront marina that doubles as a Sandcastle Festival passport stop and shuttle point. Pair it with Victoria Park for a full harbour-and-park afternoon.
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