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Tillsonburg drinking water hardness is 81 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#24 of 343
62% City Score XP
6/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Tillsonburg 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.
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Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Tillsonburg 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.
Tillsonburg sits at City Score rank #24 with a standing of 62%, 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 #124 of 327 at 110 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #33 of 57 (13.25 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, Tillsonburg carries a City Score standing of 62% (rank #24 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 9 points above the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Tillsonburg ranks #17 of 123 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is drinking-water hardness (standing 96%, rank #330 of 343, raw score 81). The weakest observed pillar is indoor radon (standing 38%, rank #124 of 327).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 81 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Tillsonburg. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #24 of 343
6/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #330
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Tillsonburg 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 Tillsonburg.
Shoreline park next to the Community Centre and waterpark, with pavilion shade and an accessible playground. Locals treat it as the default
Mayor Tillson's mansion and the town museum under one roof. It is where Tillsonburg explains itself to visiting classes and curious
Lake Lisgar Waterpark advertises a heated pool and a 186-foot giant twister waterslide for the summer season.
Where Tillsonburg sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Tillsonburg organizes summer around Lake Lisgar. Memorial Park sits on the shore with mature trees and a picnic pavilion, steps from the Community Centre and Lake Lisgar Waterpark, where the heated pool and giant twister waterslide set the family calendar from Father's Day weekend into early September. The Town lists fourteen neighbourhood parks; Memorial Park is the one people name first. If you want a hoop, J.L. Scott McLean Outdoor Recreation Pad on Hardy Ave or South Ridge Park will do.
History has a street address. Annandale National Historic Site holds the 1880s mansion built by first mayor E.D. Tillson and a community museum with tens of thousands of artifacts, so school groups and weekend visitors share the same door on Tillson Ave. Visiting Tillsonburg pages also point to Station Arts Centre on Bridge Street W, which keeps the creative half of town visible without pretending this is a big-city arts district. T:GO Transit is the in-town mini-bus brand: fixed route, Monday to Friday, exact fare, the practical answer when someone asks how you get across town without a car.
Tillsonburg News fronts mix town collisions with wider Oxford and Norfolk county politics, which is how a Southwestern Ontario town feels wired into its neighbours. The civic centre of gravity stays local: parks, waterpark season, Annandale tours, and whether T:GO is running on time. On the OpenStats City Score for 2025, Tillsonburg sits at rank 11 of 343. Hometown character is Lake Lisgar first, then the Tillson name carved into Annandale.
Drawn from Town of Tillsonburg, Lake Lisgar Waterpark, Annandale National Historic Site, T:GO Transit, Tillsonburg News.
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 Tillsonburg 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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Memorial Park is called out as the best known of Tillsonburg's fourteen neighbourhood parks, on the shores of Lake Lisgar.
Lake Lisgar Waterpark advertises a heated pool and a 186-foot giant twister waterslide for the summer season.
Annandale National Historic Site is the 1880s mansion of first mayor E.D. Tillson, plus a museum collection of more than 18,000 artifacts.
T:GO In-Town Transit runs an accessible fixed-route mini-bus Monday to Friday roughly 5:55 a.m. to 5:55 p.m.
The summer magnet on Lake Lisgar, with zero beach entry, spray features, and the twister slide. Picnic grass sits beside the pool deck for families who stay all afternoon.
Mayor Tillson's mansion and the town museum under one roof. It is where Tillsonburg explains itself to visiting classes and curious weekenders.
Shoreline park next to the Community Centre and waterpark, with pavilion shade and an accessible playground. Locals treat it as the default meet-up green.
Visitor listing on Bridge Street W that keeps arts programming in the same downtown conversation as Annandale. Small-town creative space with a fixed address.
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