Ontario · Civic arena
Wasaga Beach drinking water hardness is 244 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#10 of 343
65% City Score XP
6/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Wasaga Beach 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 Wasaga Beach water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Hamilton · vs New TecumsethHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Wasaga Beach 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.
Wasaga Beach sits at City Score rank #10 with a standing of 65%, 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 #292 of 327 at 57 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #43 of 57 (11.87 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, Wasaga Beach carries a City Score standing of 65% (rank #10 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 12 points above the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Wasaga Beach ranks #8 of 123 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is indoor radon (standing 89%, rank #292 of 327, raw score 56.8). The weakest observed pillar is drinking-water hardness (standing 15%, rank #52 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 244 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Wasaga Beach. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #10 of 343
6/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #52
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Rank #97
Rank #292
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Rank #43
Wasaga Beach 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 Wasaga Beach.
The shoreline park that holds the numbered Beach Areas and shared trail network. Locals treat the park gates and beach parking rhythm
Community arena that surfaces when the Town talks murals, recreation, and year-round gathering space away from the sand.
Town and Ontario Parks together manage more than 100 kilometres of on-road and off-road trails.
Where Wasaga Beach sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Wasaga Beach introduces itself with a hashtag that locals already know by heart: the world’s longest freshwater beach. The shoreline sits under Wasaga Beach Provincial Park, where Ontario Parks runs numbered Beach Areas and the Town shares more than 100 kilometres of trails. Beach Area #3 is the beachfront dog-park reference point; inland, Mosley Street leads to the Oakview Woods Outdoor Complex and Klondike Park Road to the Sports Park. Oakwood Park and neighbouring playgrounds are getting refreshed as the Town invests in everyday green space beyond the sand.
Summer is a schedule as much as a season. Summer Sets fills Friday and Saturday nights, Music in the Park holds Tuesdays, and Movies Under the Stars takes Wednesdays. Memories of Summer returns on Labour Day weekend with beachfront concerts and fireworks framed over Georgian Bay. Wasaga BeachLife Festival is the newer multi-day entry on the 2026 calendar. When the weather turns, the Wasaga Nordic & Trail Centre keeps hikers and winter trail users moving from the provincial park side.
Civic life is not only tourism. The Town promotes a town-operated Medical Centre, and newsroom notes keep tying beachfront redevelopment and community investment to the same shoreline that draws the crowds. Wasaga Stars Arena shows up when community art and recreation stories need a local landmark. On the OpenStats City Score for 2025, Wasaga Beach sits at rank 48 of 343. The hometown read stays simpler: Beach Areas you can number, Mosley Street you can drive, and a calendar that never pretends the sand is optional.
Drawn from Town of Wasaga Beach, Town of Wasaga Beach parks and trails, Wasaga Beach Provincial Park.
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 Wasaga Beach 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
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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
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.
2 editions · 2017–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
The Town markets Wasaga Beach as the world’s longest freshwater beach, a phrase that doubles as local shorthand.
Town and Ontario Parks together manage more than 100 kilometres of on-road and off-road trails.
Memories of Summer is the Labour Day weekend beachfront festival that closes the high season with concerts and fireworks over Georgian Bay.
The Wasaga Nordic & Trail Centre is the provincial park trail hub for hiking in summer and skiing or fat-biking in winter.
The shoreline park that holds the numbered Beach Areas and shared trail network. Locals treat the park gates and beach parking rhythm as part of summer logistics.
Town recreation complex off Mosley Street with a dog park that residents actually name in directions. It is the inland counterweight to the beach crowds.
Community arena that surfaces when the Town talks murals, recreation, and year-round gathering space away from the sand.
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