Prince Edward Island · Civic arena
Charlottetown drinking water hardness is 167 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#68 of 343
56% City Score XP
4/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Charlottetown packs 4 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.
Full Charlottetown water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Three Rivers · vs SummersideHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Charlottetown 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.
Sports
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Charlottetown sits at City Score rank #68 with a standing of 56%, from 4 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.
Published study placements for Charlottetown are charted below when available. Topic atlases carry the underlying municipal readings for the same place.
In the 2025 City Score edition, Charlottetown carries a City Score standing of 56% (rank #68 of 343) with 4 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 4 points above the Prince Edward Island peer average across 5 ranked cities. Within Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown ranks #2 of 5 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is population growth (standing 68%, rank #110 of 343, +1.7% annual growth). The weakest observed pillar is drinking-water hardness (standing 50%, rank #172 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 167 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Charlottetown. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #68 of 343
4/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #172
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Charlottetown 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 Charlottetown.
Waterfront park for pool days, Cultural Pavilion events, and Natal Day yoga. Islanders treat it as the capital’s big green room
Central square that hosts the Natal Day pancake breakfast with Mayor and Council. Small footprint, big civic habit.
City Hall council meetings are listed at 199 Queen Street.
Where Charlottetown sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Charlottetown’s summer identity peaks on Natal Day weekend, the civic birthday that fills Victoria Park, Confederation Landing, and Rochford Square with pancakes, pool parties, and outdoor music. Victoria Park carries the Cultural Pavilion and pool listings; Confederation Landing hosts the Downtown Farmers’ Market and evening concerts; Rochford Square is where Mayor and Council still flip Natal Day breakfast. Charlie Town, the city mascot, shows up at Founders’ Food Hall & Market when the birthday programming needs a friendly face. Sounds of the Waterfront keeps evenings booked along the same harbour edge.
Weekday city life sounds more like street notices. City Hall sits at 199 Queen Street. Kent Street and Grafton Street appear in temporary closures, Route 2 Winsloe in traffic alerts, and Malpeque Road in water-service work. T3 Transit is expanding north collector routes, which is how Islanders talk about getting across the capital without inventing a subway. Simmons Pool stays in the recreation file even when it closes early for a maintenance day, and sports-field closures still make the homepage when weather wins.
CBC Prince Edward Island covers the wider Island beat, including mayoral races that still start downtown. The capital’s hometown colour is parks and waterfront names you can walk between: Victoria Park for shade and swim, Confederation Landing for market mornings, Queen Street for City Hall, and Natal Day when August asks for a civic birthday. No OpenStats City Score placement sits in the datapack for Charlottetown yet, so the profile stays with the calendar and the streets Islanders already use.
Drawn from City of Charlottetown, City of Charlottetown Natal Day weekend, CBC Prince Edward Island.
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 Charlottetown 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
OpenStats
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
Sports · OpenStats
OpenStats
Canadian Hockey League (OHL, WHL, QMJHL) member cities ranked by regular-season points percentage. One CHL team maps to each OpenStats hometown slug; standings snapshot is curated from public league tables.
Single edition · 2025
Only one published edition places Charlottetown in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
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). 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
Sports · OpenStats
OpenStats
Hometowns with a mapped junior hockey franchise ranked by local sports depth: league tier (CHL member leagues = 1.0, MHL = 0.65) multiplied by regular-season points percentage. Surfaces cities with both a franchise and a strong standings year; not a City Score pillar input.
Single edition · 2025
Only one published edition places Charlottetown 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
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
Maclean's
Successor-style municipal livability ranking published by Maclean's for 2019 and 2021 (no 2020 edition).
Single edition · 2021
Only one published edition places Charlottetown in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Natal Day is Charlottetown’s civic birthday weekend, with events spread across Victoria Park, Confederation Landing, and Rochford Square.
City Hall council meetings are listed at 199 Queen Street.
T3 Transit north collector routes are a live city expansion file for the capital’s north end.
Charlie Town is the municipal mascot used in Natal Day children’s programming.
Waterfront park for pool days, Cultural Pavilion events, and Natal Day yoga. Islanders treat it as the capital’s big green room by the harbour.
Downtown waterfront park for the farmers market and outdoor concerts. It is the easy meeting point when someone says meet on the waterfront.
Central square that hosts the Natal Day pancake breakfast with Mayor and Council. Small footprint, big civic habit.
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