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OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Collingwood.
City Score #33 (2022) → #43 (2025)
Collingwood sits at City Score rank #43 with a standing of 57%, 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. Dropping 10 places versus 2022 (#33 → #43).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #93 of 172 (2025); indoor radon rank #75 of 117 at 87 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #88 of 172 (10.75 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 Collingwood.
Published residential mill-rate context for Collingwood.
Paddling, boat launch, and shoreline trails around the harbour. Sunset Point is the named park stop for a simple waterfront walk.
Scenic waterfront park called out on Visit Collingwood for harbour views and an easy outdoor stop without leaving town.
Visit Collingwood counts more than 60 kilometres of trails linking into the downtown from every direction.
Where Collingwood sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Collingwood sits on the southern shore of Georgian Bay and sells itself as a gateway to the South Georgian Bay region. Town about pages call it a four-season recreation area with a harbourfront that is growing into an extension of downtown. Visit Collingwood points paddlers to Collingwood harbour and the Port of Collingwood, hikers to more than 60 kilometres of trails, and evening walkers to Sunset Point. Shipbuilding, railways, and agriculture still show up in the municipal history pitch for the commercial core. The bay sets the weather; the harbour sets the weekend.
Historic Downtown Collingwood is the town's pride line: municipal copy says it is the only downtown core recognized in Canada's Register of Historic Places, with dozens of restaurants and boutiques on that walkable spine. Experience Collingwood even brands the place Ontario's Craft Beverage Capital for self-guided tasting. Bard on the Bay brings theatre to the water calendar, while Engage Collingwood runs the public desks for mobility, stormwater, and servicing master plans as a new Official Plan steers growth. Visitors come for trails and water; council agendas keep circling housing and servicing.
Hurontario Street still reads as the civic spine, from town hall election paperwork to the harbour end of downtown. A Tourism Master Plan and Municipal Accommodation Tax now sit beside the visitor pitch, while Engage Collingwood keeps growth debates on the public record. On OpenStats City Score for 2026, Collingwood sits at rank 39 of 125. Locals measure the place by harbour mornings and downtown evenings more than by any single ranking.
Drawn from Town of Collingwood - About, Town of Collingwood - Visit Collingwood, Town of Collingwood, CollingwoodToday.
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 Collingwood 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.
Municipal about copy calls downtown Collingwood the only downtown core recognized in Canada's Register of Historic Places.
Visit Collingwood counts more than 60 kilometres of trails linking into the downtown from every direction.
The town pitches itself as Ontario's Craft Beverage Capital for a self-guided tasting circuit.
Bard on the Bay stages waterfront theatre on the municipal events calendar, including a Twelfth Night anniversary production.
Paddling, boat launch, and shoreline trails around the harbour. Sunset Point is the named park stop for a simple waterfront walk.
Walkable core of heritage buildings, restaurants, and shops that municipal tourism treats as the indoor half of a harbour day. Harbourfront plans aim to pull that energy closer to the water.
Scenic waterfront park called out on Visit Collingwood for harbour views and an easy outdoor stop without leaving town.
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