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Elliot Lake drinking water hardness is 105 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#245 of 343
45% City Score XP
6/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Elliot Lake 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 Elliot Lake water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Ingersoll · vs KingstonHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Elliot Lake 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.
Elliot Lake sits at City Score rank #245 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. Dropping 132 places versus 2022 (#113 → #245).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #203 of 327 at 93 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #1 of 57 (20.97 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, Elliot Lake carries a City Score standing of 45% (rank #245 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 7 points below the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Elliot Lake ranks #99 of 123 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is seismic hazard (standing 89%, rank #305 of 343, raw score 0.024). The weakest observed pillar is property tax (standing 2%, rank #1 of 57).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 105 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Elliot Lake. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #245 of 343
6/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #294
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Elliot Lake 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
· Indoor radon
Algoma Public Health invited Elliot Lake households to free radon sessions October 8. No 2025 radon survey row; mill rate rank #1 at 20.97 mills; composite rank #323; construction pillar unplaced.
· Property tax
Verified direct property-tax rows cover 57 cities in Ontario, five in Nova Scotia, and Vancouver in BC. Elliot Lake leads the Ontario direct set at 23.21 mills. Markham posts 7.00 mills at the low end.
Published residential mill-rate context for Elliot Lake.
Bouldering area north of Elliot Lake with more than 150 problems, a draw for climbers who also want Algoma lake access.
Heritage stop that keeps the uranium story visible for visitors and newcomers who arrive for lakes and trails instead of shift work.
Stanleigh, the final Elliot Lake uranium mine, closed on June 30, 1996.
Where Elliot Lake sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Elliot Lake was a planned community built for uranium, not a village that slowly grew into a city. Municipal history traces the Improvement District of the mid-1950s through township and town status to cityhood in 1991, with Rio Algom and Denison shaping housing and work. The last mine, Stanleigh, closed on June 30, 1996. What stayed was the lake country and a deliberate pivot: Retirement Living, tourism, and small-business diversification instead of waiting for another ore contract.
The outdoors pitch is specific. Mt. Dufour Ski Hill sits in the heart of the city. Stone Ridge Golf Course, Sheriff Creek Wildlife Sanctuary, Mississagi Provincial Park, paddling water, and one of the larger insured ATV networks in the country fill the calendar across seasons. Nearly 300 kilometres of groomed snowmobile trails and The Nooks bouldering area north of town keep weekenders and year-round residents on the same maps. The Nuclear and Mining Museum, open since 1963, still explains how the place got on the map in the first place.
Ojibwe place memory names the lake Mooshgodne'gamiing, the lake is full, for its fish. The city acknowledges Serpent River, Mississauga, and Sagamok First Nations on Robinson-Huron Treaty land. Quirke Lake and the W.H. Collins Hall Centre keep prospecting lore close at hand, while Pearson Plaza carries everyday errands. Elliot Lake reads as an Algoma community that survived boom and bust by selling lake air, trails, and a quieter second chapter rather than pretending the mines never defined the skyline.
Drawn from City of Elliot Lake - Local History, City of Elliot Lake - Tourism, City of Elliot Lake, Elliot Lake Standard.
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 Elliot Lake 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.
Mooshgodne'gamiing is the Ojibwe name for Elliot Lake, meaning the lake is full in reference to fish.
Stanleigh, the final Elliot Lake uranium mine, closed on June 30, 1996.
The Nuclear and Mining Museum opened in 1963 during an earlier mining downturn.
Municipal tourism highlights nearly 300 km of groomed snowmobile trails and a major insured ATV network.
In-city Algoma ski hill promoted as one of the region's best, sitting right in the heart of Elliot Lake rather than a long drive away.
Heritage stop that keeps the uranium story visible for visitors and newcomers who arrive for lakes and trails instead of shift work.
Bouldering area north of Elliot Lake with more than 150 problems, a draw for climbers who also want Algoma lake access.
City-listed wildlife sanctuary for quieter walks between ski season, ATV weekends, and golf at Stone Ridge.
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