Ontario · Civic arena
Cobourg drinking water hardness is 91 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#133 of 343
53% City Score XP
6/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Cobourg 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 Cobourg water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Sarnia · vs AmherstburgHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Cobourg 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.
Cobourg sits at City Score rank #133 with a standing of 53%, 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 52 places versus 2022 (#185 → #133).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #92 of 327 at 115 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #23 of 57 (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.
Against the national corpus, Cobourg carries a City Score standing of 53% (rank #133 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 0 points above the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Cobourg ranks #65 of 123 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is drinking-water hardness (standing 91%, rank #311 of 343, raw score 91). The weakest observed pillar is indoor radon (standing 28%, rank #92 of 327).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 91 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Cobourg. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #133 of 343
6/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #311
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Cobourg 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 Cobourg.
The sand stretch that hosts the Cobourg Sandcastle Festival and everyday lake days. Festival guidance steers visitors to park downtown
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.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
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 2025, Cobourg sits at rank 97 of 343. 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.
Safety · OpenStats
Statistics Canada does not publish a police-service Crime Severity Index that OpenStats can match to Cobourg 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.
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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