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OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Wasaga Beach.
Wasaga Beach sits at City Score rank #36 with a standing of 58%, 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. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #104 of 172 (2025); indoor radon rank #80 of 117 at 87 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #69 of 172 (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.
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Documented pro, junior, university, and high-school teams tied to Wasaga Beach.
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 as
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.
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 2026, Wasaga Beach sits at rank 33 of 125. 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.
Connectivity · OpenStats
OpenStats
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
OpenStats
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
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). 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 Wasaga Beach 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.
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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