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OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Chatham-Kent.
City Score #132 (2022) → #101 (2025)
Chatham-Kent sits at City Score rank #101 with a standing of 47%, 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. Rising 31 places versus 2022 (#132 → #101).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #41 of 172 (2025); indoor radon rank #18 of 117 at 156 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #21 of 172 (15.15 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 Chatham-Kent.
Published residential mill-rate context for Chatham-Kent.
A Longwoods Road drive past farm fields and quilted barns from the Tecumseh Monument west to the mouth of the Thames. Picnic at the
Sydenham River overnight docks in downtown Wallaceburg, one of the clearest reminders that Chatham-Kent is more than a single urban core.
Downtown Chatham Docks let boaters overnight on the Thames after entering at Lighthouse Cove on Lake St. Clair.
Where Chatham-Kent sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Chatham-Kent is one municipality and many place names. VisitCK pages send drivers along Highway 2, also called Longwoods Road, past agricultural landscapes and the Thames River Barn Quilt Trail from the Tecumseh Monument toward Lighthouse Cove at the mouth of the Thames on Lake St. Clair. Chatham holds the Civic Centre and Downtown Chatham Docks. Wallaceburg answers on the Sydenham River with its own municipal docks. Dresden and Lake Erie launches fill out a shoreline map that does not fit a single downtown postcard. Locals switch community names the way other Ontario places switch neighbourhoods.
Boating is practical geography here. Municipal trail pages list free launches on the Thames, Sydenham, Lake St. Clair, and Lake Erie, including Thames Grove Conservation Area for Chatham and year-round options in Wallaceburg. A leisurely boat run up the Thames from Lighthouse Cove lands you at downtown shops and restaurants. The Chatham Quilter's Guild helped plant roughly thirty barn quilts along that river road so the farm drive doubles as a community storyboard. Field edges, barn quilts, and river bends do more talking than a single skyline ever could.
Chatham Daily News and Chatham This Week keep Wallaceburg crime briefs beside Chatham-Kent Barnstormers sports and the wider CK civic beat, while Service Chatham-Kent handles the amalgamated errands. The hometown test for Chatham-Kent is whether you can name more than one community without leaving the municipal map. On OpenStats City Score for 2026, Chatham-Kent sits at rank 113 of 125. The local frame stays rivers, farms, and the towns that share one council table.
Drawn from VisitCK - Thames River Barn Quilt Trail, Municipality of Chatham-Kent - Boat Launches & Docks, Municipality of Chatham-Kent, Chatham Daily News / Chatham This Week.
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
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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). 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 Chatham-Kent 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.
4 editions · 2014–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
The Thames River Barn Quilt Trail follows Highway 2 / Longwoods Road from the Tecumseh Monument to Lighthouse Cove with about thirty barn quilts.
Downtown Chatham Docks let boaters overnight on the Thames after entering at Lighthouse Cove on Lake St. Clair.
Wallaceburg keeps municipal docks on the Sydenham River with washrooms tied to downtown parks and the library area.
Chatham Quilter's Guild spearheaded the barn quilt project that VisitCK uses to tell settlement stories along the Thames.
A Longwoods Road drive past farm fields and quilted barns from the Tecumseh Monument west to the mouth of the Thames. Picnic at the monument and follow the river toward Lake St. Clair.
Transient docks on the Thames beside restaurants and shops, with boater facilities at the Chatham-Kent Civic Centre on King Street West.
Sydenham River overnight docks in downtown Wallaceburg, one of the clearest reminders that Chatham-Kent is more than a single urban core.
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