Newfoundland and Labrador · Civic arena
Corner Brook drinking water hardness is 120 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#102 of 343
54% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Corner Brook packs 5 of eight open-data pillars into its composite standing. Tap a rival below to see how the hometown stacks up head-to-head.
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.
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Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Corner Brook 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.
Corner Brook sits at City Score rank #102 with a standing of 54%, from 5 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 82 places versus 2022 (#184 → #102).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #77 of 327 at 124 Bq/m³ survey mean. Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
Among Canadian cities on the hub, Corner Brook carries a City Score standing of 54% (rank #102 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 1 points above the Newfoundland and Labrador peer average across 15 ranked cities. Within Newfoundland and Labrador, Corner Brook ranks #8 of 15 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is seismic hazard (standing 88%, rank #303 of 343, raw score 0.025). The weakest observed pillar is indoor radon (standing 24%, rank #77 of 327).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 120 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Corner Brook. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #102 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #261
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Corner Brook 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
· Drinking water
The town reminded residents on September 28 that a boil water advisory in effect since September 14 remains active. City Score rank #318; hardness 226 mg/L remains an ECCC seed row; construction pillar is unplaced on 34-10-0292-01.
Published residential mill-rate context for Corner Brook.
A Curling shoreline day park on the Bay of Islands with beach access, trails, and marina-adjacent sunsets.
Crow Hill lookout with Cook's chart copies and a Bay of Islands panorama. City webcams treat the monument as a standing civic view.
Margaret Bowater Park is the default host ground for Canada Day, Corner Brook Day, and the Corner Brook Winter Carnival.
Where Corner Brook sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Corner Brook sells itself as a garden city for a reason: the Bay of Islands sits at the door, and the municipal about page still ties the view to Captain James Cook's surveys. Captain James Cook National Historic Site on Crow Hill is the lookout locals name when guests want the chart story and the bay in one stop, and a city webcam literally points at Captain Cooks Monument. Downtown keeps a Main Street camera too, while Curling holds the shoreline habit at Bartlett's Point Park beside the marina. The west-coast framing is not brochure fluff here; it is how directions get given.
Day-to-day recreation clusters around Margaret Bowater Park, the gathering ground for Canada Day, Corner Brook Day, and winter carnival energy, complete with swimming area and splash pad. The Corner Brook Stream Trail threads the gorge and salmon ladder through town, and Three Bear Mountain adds the climb for city-and-bay views toward the Blomidon range. Marble Mountain Ski Resort is the short-drive winter reflex. Marina Redmond Centre covers indoor pool life, Corner Brook Transit is expanding hours, and 2026 civic chatter includes NL Summer Games volunteers plus the Jigs & Wheels Festival on the tourism board.
Pulp and paper history still shadows the railway story on city pages, but the present tense is trails, bay light, and west-coast outdoor logistics. Corner Brook does not carry an OpenStats City Score rank in the current datapack, so the hometown lead stays geographic: ocean on one side, stream trail in the middle, Marble minutes away. That is enough for a local to know which town you mean.
Drawn from City of Corner Brook, About Corner Brook, Parks and Playgrounds, Tourism, CBC Newfoundland and Labrador.
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 Corner Brook 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
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.
3 editions · 2015–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
City about pages call Corner Brook a garden city at the mouth of the Bay of Islands and point to Captain James Cook's local surveying work.
Margaret Bowater Park is the default host ground for Canada Day, Corner Brook Day, and the Corner Brook Winter Carnival.
Marble Mountain Ski Resort sits about ten minutes from the city on municipal tourism listings.
The Corner Brook Stream corridor includes a gorge viewpoint and a salmon ladder that restored upstream passage for returning salmon.
The central park Corner Brook actually uses for civic parties. Swimming, playgrounds, splash pad, and a stage keep it busier than a postcard stop.
Crow Hill lookout with Cook's chart copies and a Bay of Islands panorama. City webcams treat the monument as a standing civic view.
A Curling shoreline day park on the Bay of Islands with beach access, trails, and marina-adjacent sunsets.
An in-town trail that hits the gorge and salmon ladder without requiring a highway day trip.
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