Ontario · Civic arena
Woodstock drinking water hardness is 155 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#109 of 343
54% City Score XP
6/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Woodstock 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 Woodstock water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Carleton Place · vs StratfordHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Woodstock 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.
Woodstock sits at City Score rank #109 with a standing of 54%, 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 #125 of 327 at 110 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #6 of 57 (18.21 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
On the latest OpenStats pass, Woodstock carries a City Score standing of 54% (rank #109 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 1 points above the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Woodstock ranks #56 of 123 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is population growth (standing 96%, rank #14 of 343, +3.7% annual growth). The weakest observed pillar is property tax (standing 11%, rank #6 of 57).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 155 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Woodstock. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #109 of 343
6/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #188
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Rank #125
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Rank #6
Woodstock 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 Woodstock.
The featured municipal park for playgrounds, winter tobogganing, and everyday family use. Locals treat it as the default green destination
Indoor sports facility named on the city’s sports fields page. It is the weatherproof half of Woodstock recreation when fields are wet
Woodstock Museum sits in the historic Old Town Hall and is listed as a National Historic Site on city facility pages.
Where Woodstock sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Woodstock’s everyday map still runs along Dundas Street, where City Hall mail goes to 500 Dundas and the Woodstock Museum occupies the Old Town Hall a few blocks away. Recreation copy keeps pointing people to Southside Park as the featured municipal greenspace among more than fifty neighbourhood parks, with a toboggan hill that makes winter directions easy. Chuck Armstrong Memorial Park and other named playground parks fill the neighbourhood gaps. Cowan Sportsplex covers the indoor sports side, and Woodstock Transit keeps a local bus brand on the homepage beside the usual tax and waste service notes.
Summer brings its own proper nouns. Cowapolooza and the Woodstock Fair sit on the city events calendar, while Woodstock 125 keeps anniversary history in the civic conversation. City news also sends people out to Pittock Conservation Area for a redeveloped disc golf course, a reminder that recreation talk here spills just past the municipal park list. The Woodstock Art Gallery and What’s on Woodstock magazine round out the culture desk without needing a tourist brochure voice.
Press is thin compared with bigger Ontario desks, so the hometown read leans on municipal names that locals already use: Southside Park for family afternoons, Old Town Hall for the museum, and Fair week when August arrives. Splash pads and trail pages keep the same practical tone as transit alerts. On the OpenStats City Score for 2025, Woodstock sits at rank 152 of 343. Rankings do not change the street-level habit of meeting on Dundas and measuring green space from Southside out.
Drawn from City of Woodstock, City of Woodstock parks, trails and sports fields, City of Woodstock recreation and culture.
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 Woodstock 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.
City parks pages feature Southside Park among more than fifty neighbourhood parks, including a toboggan hill for winter.
Woodstock Museum sits in the historic Old Town Hall and is listed as a National Historic Site on city facility pages.
Woodstock Transit offers both conventional fixed-route and specialized service under a local brand.
Cowapolooza and the Woodstock Fair share August space on the municipal events calendar.
The featured municipal park for playgrounds, winter tobogganing, and everyday family use. Locals treat it as the default green destination inside city limits.
Local history museum inside the Old Town Hall on Dundas Street. Council chambers heritage and current exhibits share the same restored building.
Indoor sports facility named on the city’s sports fields page. It is the weatherproof half of Woodstock recreation when fields are wet or frozen.
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