Ontario · Civic arena
Orillia drinking water hardness is 106 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#30 of 343
60% City Score XP
6/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Orillia 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 Orillia water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs St. Catharines · vs Plympton-WyomingHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Orillia 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.
Orillia sits at City Score rank #30 with a standing of 60%, 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 #290 of 327 at 57 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #31 of 57 (13.70 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
In the 2025 City Score edition, Orillia carries a City Score standing of 60% (rank #30 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 8 points above the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Orillia ranks #19 of 123 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is indoor radon (standing 89%, rank #290 of 327, raw score 56.8). The weakest observed pillar is population growth (standing 46%, rank #186 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 106 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Orillia. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #30 of 343
6/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #293
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Rank #31
Orillia 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 Orillia.
Outdoor stage in Couchiching Beach Park for Saturday Lakeside Live shows and Sunday band nights. Bring a chair; the lake does the rest
Main city waterfront park for swimming, festivals, and concert evenings. Moose Beach sits nearby on the same advisory circuit when water
Lakeside Live and Sunday Evening Band Concerts are free summer series at the Rotary Aqua Theatre.
Where Orillia sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Orillia faces Lake Couchiching with a waterfront that still runs on music. Couchiching Beach Park holds the Rotary Aqua Theatre, where Orillians bring their own chairs for Lakeside Live on Saturdays and Sunday Evening Band Concerts when the light goes soft over the lake. City culture pages call that habit part of a longer music-hub story, and the free summer series keeps the claim honest without needing a ticket booth. Rock one Saturday, swing-band nostalgia the next Sunday: the stage absorbs both without fuss.
A short shoreline drive away, the Leacock Museum sits on Old Brewery Bay. Stephen Leacock bought the property in 1908 after spotting brewery remnants from a sailboat, then built the house in 1928; the National Historic Site still reads as a cottage grounds first and a museum second. August adds the Orillia Waterfront Festival to the calendar, while Moose Beach shares swimming-advisory notices with Couchiching Beach whenever the lake needs a caution flag. Stormwater master-plan open houses and Civic Holiday schedules share the same city news feed.
Saturday mornings stay local at the Orillia Farmers' Market inside the Orillia Public Library, year-round, produce and handmade goods under one roof. Civic notices also keep Lakehead University expansion and OSMH redevelopment on the public agenda, reminders that the town is negotiating its next institutional chapter while the Aqua Theatre still fills on warm nights. OrilliaMatters covers the everyday desk. The hometown picture is lakeside and musical: band shell evenings, Old Brewery Bay, and a market that does not wait for tourist season.
Drawn from City of Orillia - Music in the Park, City of Orillia - Leacock Museum, City of Orillia, OrilliaMatters.
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 Orillia 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.
Lakeside Live and Sunday Evening Band Concerts are free summer series at the Rotary Aqua Theatre.
Stephen Leacock named the museum shoreline Old Brewery Bay after finding brewery remnants while sailing.
Leacock purchased the Old Brewery Bay property in 1908 and built the house in 1928.
The Orillia Farmers' Market runs Saturday mornings year-round at the Orillia Public Library.
Outdoor stage in Couchiching Beach Park for Saturday Lakeside Live shows and Sunday band nights. Bring a chair; the lake does the rest of the set design.
National Historic Site cottage and grounds on Old Brewery Bay. Tours and programs keep Stephen Leacock's Orillia shoreline open to visitors.
Main city waterfront park for swimming, festivals, and concert evenings. Moose Beach sits nearby on the same advisory circuit when water quality shifts.
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