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Collingwood drinking water hardness is 255 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#48 of 343
58% City Score XP
6/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Collingwood 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.
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Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Collingwood 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.
Collingwood sits at City Score rank #48 with a standing of 58%, 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 #285 of 327 at 57 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #45 of 57 (10.75 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, Collingwood carries a City Score standing of 58% (rank #48 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 6 points above the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Collingwood ranks #30 of 123 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is indoor radon (standing 87%, rank #285 of 327, raw score 56.8). The weakest observed pillar is drinking-water hardness (standing 10%, rank #35 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 255 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Collingwood. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #48 of 343
6/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #35
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Rank #285
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Rank #45
Collingwood 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 Collingwood.
Paddling, boat launch, and shoreline trails around the harbour. Sunset Point is the named park stop for a simple waterfront walk.
Scenic waterfront park called out on Visit Collingwood for harbour views and an easy outdoor stop without leaving town.
Visit Collingwood counts more than 60 kilometres of trails linking into the downtown from every direction.
Where Collingwood sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Collingwood sits on the southern shore of Georgian Bay and sells itself as a gateway to the South Georgian Bay region. Town about pages call it a four-season recreation area with a harbourfront that is growing into an extension of downtown. Visit Collingwood points paddlers to Collingwood harbour and the Port of Collingwood, hikers to more than 60 kilometres of trails, and evening walkers to Sunset Point. Shipbuilding, railways, and agriculture still show up in the municipal history pitch for the commercial core. The bay sets the weather; the harbour sets the weekend.
Historic Downtown Collingwood is the town's pride line: municipal copy says it is the only downtown core recognized in Canada's Register of Historic Places, with dozens of restaurants and boutiques on that walkable spine. Experience Collingwood even brands the place Ontario's Craft Beverage Capital for self-guided tasting. Bard on the Bay brings theatre to the water calendar, while Engage Collingwood runs the public desks for mobility, stormwater, and servicing master plans as a new Official Plan steers growth. Visitors come for trails and water; council agendas keep circling housing and servicing.
Hurontario Street still reads as the civic spine, from town hall election paperwork to the harbour end of downtown. A Tourism Master Plan and Municipal Accommodation Tax now sit beside the visitor pitch, while Engage Collingwood keeps growth debates on the public record. On OpenStats City Score for 2025, Collingwood sits at rank 151 of 343. Locals measure the place by harbour mornings and downtown evenings more than by any single ranking.
Drawn from Town of Collingwood - About, Town of Collingwood - Visit Collingwood, Town of Collingwood, CollingwoodToday.
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 Collingwood 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.
Municipal about copy calls downtown Collingwood the only downtown core recognized in Canada's Register of Historic Places.
Visit Collingwood counts more than 60 kilometres of trails linking into the downtown from every direction.
The town pitches itself as Ontario's Craft Beverage Capital for a self-guided tasting circuit.
Bard on the Bay stages waterfront theatre on the municipal events calendar, including a Twelfth Night anniversary production.
Paddling, boat launch, and shoreline trails around the harbour. Sunset Point is the named park stop for a simple waterfront walk.
Walkable core of heritage buildings, restaurants, and shops that municipal tourism treats as the indoor half of a harbour day. Harbourfront plans aim to pull that energy closer to the water.
Scenic waterfront park called out on Visit Collingwood for harbour views and an easy outdoor stop without leaving town.
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