Ontario · Civic arena
Kenora drinking water hardness is 138 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#231 of 343
46% City Score XP
6/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Kenora 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 Kenora water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Norfolk · vs KingsvilleHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Kenora 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.
Kenora sits at City Score rank #231 with a standing of 46%, 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 14 places versus 2022 (#245 → #231).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #81 of 327 at 120 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #14 of 57 (16.15 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
Among Canadian cities on the hub, Kenora carries a City Score standing of 46% (rank #231 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 6 points below the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Kenora ranks #93 of 123 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is seismic hazard (standing 92%, rank #315 of 343, raw score 0.018). The weakest observed pillar is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 15%, rank #293 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 138 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Kenora. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #231 of 343
6/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #217
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Rank #293
Rank #81
Rank #315
Rank #14
Kenora 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 Kenora.
Waterfront park with Husky the Muskie and the James McMillan Tugboat facing each other. Default first stop for visitors who want the Kenora
Festival and market shoreline with Thistle Pavilion info desk, Rotary Goodwill Geyser, and the live harbourfront camera the city promotes
The Matiowski Farmers' Market runs Wednesdays under the Jarnel Contracting Pavilion in summer.
Where Kenora sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Kenora faces Lake of the Woods and talks about the lake the way other towns talk about a main street. Visit Kenora sells boating, fishing, beaches, and winter ice the same week the City posts fire-ban alerts for the northwest. The municipal land acknowledgment places the city on Treaty #3 Anishinaabe territory and names Wauzhushk Onigum, Niisaachewan, and Washagamis Bay First Nations. Tourism Kenora's line is still "neck of the woods," and the Lake of the Woods Discovery Centre on Lakeview Drive is where visitors get maps, Science North exhibits, and the outboard motor collection upstairs.
Harbourfront life sets the calendar. Winkler Harbourfront Park holds the Thistle Pavilion in summer. The Jarnel Contracting Pavilion hosts the Wednesday Matiowski Farmers' Market. Shake the Lake takes the August long weekend, Kenora Bass International fills three days of fishing, and Coney Island Music Festival turns a boat-access beach into a free stage day. McLeod Park keeps the postcard stops: Husky the Muskie across from the James McMillan Tugboat, with Loonie Bear and the Rotary Goodwill Geyser along the harbour for the obligatory photos.
Locals check the harbourfront camera when they are away and still ask whether you got your Husky shot when you visit. The Muse carries Truth and Reconciliation programming that the tourism calendar flags each September. Winter still sells skating, snowshoeing, and ice fishing once the summer harbour calendar closes. On OpenStats City Score for 2025, Kenora sits at rank 141 of 343. The hometown framing stays Lake of the Woods and the harbour first.
Drawn from Visit Kenora, City of Kenora - See and Do, City of Kenora - Tourism Information Centres, Visit Kenora - Events & Festivals.
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 Kenora 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.
Husky the Muskie is a large muskie sculpture in McLeod Park and a city-listed landmark.
The Matiowski Farmers' Market runs Wednesdays under the Jarnel Contracting Pavilion in summer.
Kenora Bass International is billed as the largest bass fishing tournament on Lake of the Woods.
The Lake of the Woods Discovery Centre houses Tourism Kenora and permanent Science North exhibits.
Waterfront park with Husky the Muskie and the James McMillan Tugboat facing each other. Default first stop for visitors who want the Kenora photo.
Tourism hub at 931 Lakeview Drive with exhibits, Discovery Forest walk, and trip-planning help for Lake of the Woods.
Festival and market shoreline with Thistle Pavilion info desk, Rotary Goodwill Geyser, and the live harbourfront camera the city promotes year-round.
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