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Port Hope drinking water hardness is 252 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#314 of 343
40% City Score XP
6/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Port Hope 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.
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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 Port Hope water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Dryden · vs PembrokeHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Port Hope 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.
Port Hope sits at City Score rank #314 with a standing of 40%, 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 88 places versus 2022 (#226 → #314).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #96 of 327 at 115 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #28 of 57 (14.25 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, Port Hope carries a City Score standing of 40% (rank #314 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 12 points below the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Port Hope ranks #117 of 123 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 62%, rank #132 of 343, raw score 700). The weakest observed pillar is drinking-water hardness (standing 12%, rank #41 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 252 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Port Hope. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #314 of 343
6/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #41
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Port Hope 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 Port Hope.
The river locals call the Ganny runs through downtown into Lake Ontario. Fish Ladder viewing and riverside patios make it the town's
Trail network in the rugged landscape behind town, paired with Ganaraska Forest day trips for bikes and longer walks.
East Beach and West Beach give two different Lake Ontario moods: sand on one side, pebbles and sea glass on the other.
Where Port Hope sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Port Hope sits on Lake Ontario where the Ganaraska River cuts through a heritage downtown before reaching the water. Locals still call the river the Ganny, and tourism pages point visitors to the Fish Ladder when trout and salmon are running. East Beach and West Beach bookend the shoreline, and the Waterfront Trail stitches lake days to quiet walks. Inland, the Ganaraska Millennium Conservation Area and Ganaraska Forest pull people toward bike trails and longer loops once the downtown errands are done. Fish-migration weekends still rearrange parking and patio chatter along the river.
Downtown Port Hope wears its nineteenth-century streetscape without apology. The Capitol Theatre anchors Queen Street nights with professional stage work under the Cameco Capitol Arts Centre roof, and the municipal calendar puts an Arts Festival on the summer list. County Road 2 still offers the scenic lakeshore run when Highway 401 feels like a chore. Today's Northumberland covers the town as part of a wider Northumberland County beat, so Port Hope news often arrives beside Cobourg waterfront chatter.
Everyday files keep the place grounded. Walton Street Reconstruction sits in the municipal living-here menu, and the Port Hope Area Initiative remains a standing label for the long remediation story locals already know by initials. Craft-beer stops and library storytimes share the tourism itinerary boards with beach blankets. On OpenStats City Score for 2025, Port Hope sits at rank 308 of 343. The hometown introduction still starts with the Ganny meeting the lake, then the theatre lights, then a beach bag.
Drawn from Port Hope Tourism, Capitol Theatre, Municipality of Port Hope, Today's Northumberland.
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 Port Hope 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
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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
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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). 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.
Tourism maps highlight a Fish Ladder on the Ganaraska River for watching trout and salmon during migration.
East Beach and West Beach give two different Lake Ontario moods: sand on one side, pebbles and sea glass on the other.
The Capitol Theatre stages professional theatre in downtown Port Hope from the Cameco Capitol Arts Centre.
Municipal pages list an Arts Festival among summer community events.
The river locals call the Ganny runs through downtown into Lake Ontario. Fish Ladder viewing and riverside patios make it the town's clearest geographic signature.
Professional stage house in the heritage core, also a hub for Northumberland community productions and screenings. It is the night-time counterweight to beach and trail days.
Trail network in the rugged landscape behind town, paired with Ganaraska Forest day trips for bikes and longer walks.
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