Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador
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Grand Falls-Windsor

Grand Falls-Windsor drinking water hardness is 189 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Grand Falls-Windsor

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50XP
#169

#169 of 343

50% City Score XP

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City Score XP

5/8 pillars on the board

50%#169

Decade trail

Grand Falls-Windsor 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.

Grand Falls-Windsor drinking water

Regional estimate from nearest municipal sample

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.

Hardness
189 mg/L
very hard
pH
7.2
Lead
0.5 μg/L

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How Grand Falls-Windsor's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Grand Falls-Windsor from municipal and provincial water records. Open the animated map for the full watershed-to-tap diagram — no nested topic navigation here.

Local numbers for Grand Falls-Windsor

Permits, tax, internet, radon, hazards, drinking water, and sports rankings where a CHL hometown applies.

How Grand Falls-Windsor scores

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Grand Falls-Windsor sits at City Score rank #169 with a standing of 50%, 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 44 places versus 2022 (#213 → #169).

Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #231 of 327 at 83 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.

Against the national corpus, Grand Falls-Windsor carries a City Score standing of 50% (rank #169 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 3 points below the Newfoundland and Labrador peer average across 15 ranked cities. Within Newfoundland and Labrador, Grand Falls-Windsor ranks #10 of 15 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is seismic hazard (standing 88%, rank #301 of 343, raw score 0.026). The weakest observed pillar is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 21%, rank #271 of 343).

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 189 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Grand Falls-Windsor. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#169
Arena rank (of 343)
50%
City Score
5
Pillars observed
Rising+44
vs 2022
#213 → #169

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #169 of 343

City Score

5/8 pillars · main XP bar

50%#169
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #135

36%
Building permits

No placement

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Internet

Rank #271

21%
Radon

Rank #231

71%
Hazards

Rank #301

88%
Property tax

No placement

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Grand Falls-Windsor pillar standing

Eight equal-weight City Score pillars, 2025 panel year.

TaxPermitsNetRadonWaterHazardsGrowthCrime

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

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Hometown notes

City profile

Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.

Grand Falls-Windsor in brief

Grand Falls-Windsor sells itself as Perfectly Centered, and the geography backs the pitch. The town sits on the Exploits River, where the Salmonid Interpretation Centre tells the story of the Grand Falls fishway and wild Atlantic salmon climbing toward spawning water. Visitors peer into the underwater observation level, then wander the riverside grounds toward Sanger Memorial RV Park, a short hop from downtown. Town Hall at 5 High Street anchors council nights with livestreams, while summer calendars fill with Concert in the Park, Wednesday Wellness, and the Perfectly Centered Beverage Festival.

Central Newfoundland traffic still runs through the Trans-Canada Highway conversation, the corridor that ties the town to the rest of the island. Locals talk about parks programming as much as highway notices: Bouncy Castle Mondays for kids, Labour Day Parade floats for community groups, and the occasional Newfoundland Regiment Hockey Club exhibition that puts CHL hockey on the municipal board. The visitor pages keep accommodations, dining, and attractions in one place so a day trip can stretch into a riverside weekend.

What holds the hometown frame together is the river first, then the town brand. People here point newcomers to salmon season at Taylor Road, free concerts in the park, and the sense that central Newfoundland is a real place to land rather than a drive-through. The Exploits story is conservation and spectacle at once, and the municipal calendar keeps the rest of the year from going quiet. Visitor pages keep lodging, dining, and attractions in one list so a fishway afternoon can turn into a Perfectly Centered weekend without inventing a tourist myth.

Drawn from Town of Grand Falls-Windsor, Salmonid Interpretation Centre (ERMA), Town of Grand Falls-Windsor - Visitor.

City Score over time

City Score from 2016–2025 across eight open-data pillars. Individual study placements are listed in the panels below.

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Rankings for Grand Falls-Windsor

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

Crime severity not placed

Statistics Canada does not publish a police-service Crime Severity Index that OpenStats can match to Grand Falls-Windsor 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 Broadband Download Speeds

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

#271
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 124.3

Composite · OpenStats

OpenStats City Score

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

#169
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.501

Water · OpenStats

OpenStats Drinking Water Hardness

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

#135
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 189

Health · OpenStats

OpenStats Highest Indoor Radon

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

#231
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 82.8

Growth · OpenStats

OpenStats Population Growth

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

#223
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.0065903572667360385

Hazards · OpenStats

OpenStats Seismic Hazard (PGA)

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

#301
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.026

Worth knowing in Grand Falls-Windsor

Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.

Places to see

Salmonid Interpretation Centre

Exploits River attraction with a fishway story and underwater viewing of migrating Atlantic salmon. Pair it with the riverside grounds and nearby Sanger Memorial RV Park.

Concert in the Park

Municipal summer concert series featuring local musicians. It sits with Wednesday Wellness and other free family programming on the town calendar.

Town Hall (5 High Street)

Civic home for open council meetings and livestreamed sessions. It is a simple landmark for anyone learning how town business runs here.

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