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Hawkesbury drinking water hardness is 271 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#276 of 343
44% City Score XP
6/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Hawkesbury packs 6 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. 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 Hawkesbury 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.
Hawkesbury sits at City Score rank #276 with a standing of 44%, from 6 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 49 places versus 2022 (#325 → #276).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #217 of 327 at 90 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #10 of 57 (16.75 mill rate). 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, Hawkesbury carries a City Score standing of 44% (rank #276 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 9 points below the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Hawkesbury ranks #109 of 123 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is population growth (standing 95%, rank #17 of 343, +3.5% annual growth). The weakest observed pillar is drinking-water hardness (standing 5%, rank #16 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 271 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Hawkesbury. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #276 of 343
6/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #16
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Hawkesbury 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 Hawkesbury.
Waterfront park with Maison de l'Île, the Franco-Ontarian monument, pétanque, and a boat launch. It is the clearest place to show someone
East-end park with baseball, a boat launch, and a fenced dog park. It shares the river recreation beat with Confederation Park.
Pioneers' Place at 351 Main Street East has two outdoor stages for Town summer programming.
Where Hawkesbury sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Hawkesbury sits on the Ottawa River in Prescott and Russell, a bilingual town that still reads the water first. Town history puts early sawmills on the islands, then pulp and paper, then the hard closures that remade the job market after Canadian International Paper shut in 1983. The Pearly Bridge to Grenville tied the Ontario and Quebec sides into one regional shopping and services beat. Chenail Island carries a tougher memory too: mid-century Carillon dam work meant a neighbourhood had to leave, and growth pushed south into new streets and industrial land.
Today the waterfront is where people send visitors. Confederation Park at 1 John Street holds Maison de l'Île, the Franco-Ontarian monument, pétanque lanes, and a boat launch that needs a day or seasonal vignette. Cyr-de-LaSalle Park adds another launch plus a fenced dog park. Downtown, Pioneers' Place on Main Street East runs outdoor stages for summer nights: Time For Art with the Club Optimiste de Hawkesbury, Yvon and His Guests, and the Town's Hawkesbury Country-Blues Festival. The Review covers the same corridor, from Ottawa River marine patrols to complex walk rates.
Locals talk about Main Street, the river, and the bridge more than any brochure slogan. Robert Hartley Sports Complex anchors indoor recreation while parks from Cadieux to Old Mill keep splash pads and outdoor rinks on the calendar. Summer programming at Pioneers' Place keeps Main Street East busy after the river day ends. On OpenStats City Score for 2025, Hawkesbury sits at rank 265 of 343. The hometown framing stays Ottawa River and bilingual downtown first.
Drawn from Town of Hawkesbury - History, Mission and Vision, Town of Hawkesbury - Parks and Outdoor Rinks, Town of Hawkesbury, The Review.
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 Hawkesbury 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
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
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
Property tax · OpenStats
OpenStats
Municipalities ranked by residential mill rate (education levies are shown on property-tax pages but not added here). Rank 1 is the highest rate. Atlas seed and published municipal rows anchor the panel; off-panel tax years (e.g. 2026) carry across 2016–2025; remaining gaps follow provincial paths.
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.
Confederation Park lists Maison de l'Île and the Franco-Ontarian monument on the same waterfront block.
Pioneers' Place at 351 Main Street East has two outdoor stages for Town summer programming.
Municipal history credits the Pearly Bridge link to Grenville with a regional commerce boom.
Boat launches at Confederation Park and Cyr-de-LaSalle Park use day or seasonal parking vignettes.
Waterfront park with Maison de l'Île, the Franco-Ontarian monument, pétanque, and a boat launch. It is the clearest place to show someone why Hawkesbury faces the Ottawa River.
Downtown Main Street East plaza with outdoor stages and event kiosks. Summer art nights and the Country-Blues Festival land here.
East-end park with baseball, a boat launch, and a fenced dog park. It shares the river recreation beat with Confederation Park.
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