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OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Midland.
City Score #49 (2022) → #92 (2025)
Midland sits at City Score rank #92 with a standing of 48%, 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. Dropping 43 places versus 2022 (#49 → #92).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #135 of 172 (2025); indoor radon rank #77 of 117 at 87 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #24 of 172 (14.82 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 Midland.
Published residential mill-rate context for Midland.
The marina and public dock at the base of King Street, treated as Midland's front porch on Georgian Bay. Seasonal slips, shopper docks, and
Waterfront park on the former CN station site that hosts Ribfest, Canada Day, and the Butter Tart Festival. A millennium time capsule is
Little Lake Park spans about 37 hectares and is getting Midland's first public splash pad in 2026.
Where Midland sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Midland splits its outdoor life between Georgian Bay and an inland lake that still feels central. Midland Harbour, often called the Town Dock, sits at the base of King Street as the gathering place and marina gateway to the bay. Harbourside Park, on the old CN station grounds, is where Ribfest, Canada Day, and the Butter Tart Festival show up on the municipal amenities list. Midland Bay Landing Park marks the former coal dock with a lookout, and the Midland Rotary Waterfront Trail strings more than eight kilometres of shore walking past downtown, the harbour, and the parks.
A few blocks inland, Little Lake Park does a different job. It is the Town's largest community park, with beach, disc golf, skatepark, amphitheatre, and a splash pad under construction for 2026. Gawley Park and Pete Pettersen Park keep smaller beach options on the official list. Summer evenings bring Music in the Park; August adds the Georgian Bay Waterfront Festival and the Cruisin' Classics Car Show. At the marina, the Top Hat Ceremony still crowns the first commercial vessel of the season, a harbour ritual that needs no tourist brochure to land with locals.
News reading often arrives through The Mirror's Simcoe.com home, which still introduces itself as Midland's paper since 1981 even when the day's mix leans Simcoe County-wide. On the OpenStats City Score for 2026, Midland sits at rank 41 of 125. Rankings aside, the hometown read is a Town Dock you walk to from King Street, a Little Lake afternoon that never needs the bay, and a waterfront festival that says Georgian Bay out loud.
Drawn from Town of Midland, Parks & Amenities, Midland Harbour Marina, Trails, Simcoe.com Midland.
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
OpenStats
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
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
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 Midland 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.
Municipal parks copy still glosses Midland Harbour as the Town Dock, the central waterfront gathering place at the foot of King Street.
Little Lake Park spans about 37 hectares and is getting Midland's first public splash pad in 2026.
The Top Hat Ceremony marks the first commercial vessel into Midland Harbour each season, a tradition the marina page still stages with the mayor.
The Midland Rotary Waterfront Trail offers more than eight kilometres with plaques on maritime and industrial heritage.
The marina and public dock at the base of King Street, treated as Midland's front porch on Georgian Bay. Seasonal slips, shopper docks, and harbour events keep the water end of downtown busy.
The big inland park with beach, trails, disc golf, and an amphitheatre. It is where splash-pad construction and Music in the Park nights feel closer to neighbourhood life than to the open bay.
Waterfront park on the former CN station site that hosts Ribfest, Canada Day, and the Butter Tart Festival. A millennium time capsule is part of the municipal description.
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