Ontario · Civic arena
Mississauga drinking water hardness is 125 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#115 of 343
53% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Mississauga packs 7 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.
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Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Mississauga 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.
Sports
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Mississauga sits at City Score rank #115 with a standing of 53%, from 7 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 27 places versus 2022 (#88 → #115).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #13 of 25 (2025); indoor radon rank #271 of 327 at 60 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #46 of 57 (10.34 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, Mississauga carries a City Score standing of 53% (rank #115 of 343) with 7 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 1 points above the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Mississauga ranks #59 of 123 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 87%, rank #44 of 343, raw score 1000). The weakest observed pillar is population growth (standing 1%, rank #342 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 125 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Mississauga. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #115 of 343
7/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #249
Rank #13
Rank #44
Rank #271
Rank #111
Rank #46
Mississauga 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 Mississauga.
Downtown civic square beside City Centre where summer fitness classes, movie nights, and amphitheatre shows share the same open floor. It
The MiWay and Transitway hub next to Square One, with heated waiting areas and connections to GO and Brampton Transit. It is how a lot
MiWay's MiSpot list names Celebration Square, Square One, Port Credit, and Brueckner Rhododendron Gardens as go-to destinations.
Where Mississauga sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Mississauga's local map often starts with MiWay. The City Centre Transit Terminal on Rathburn Road West is the main hub on the Mississauga Transitway, parked at the northwest corner of Square One, and Hurontario routes are among the corridor names on the board. A short walk puts you at Celebration Square on City Centre Drive, where summer programming runs from fountain hours to amphitheatre nights and the venue page still prints 311 as the number to call. MiWay's own MiSpot list treats Celebration Square, Square One, Port Credit, and Brueckner Rhododendron Gardens as the destinations people already argue about over coffee.
Neighbourhoods keep their own files. Port Credit is the waterfront shorthand on transit tips. Clarkson shows up when the City updates the Clarkson Village Study and when GO connections matter for longer trips. Cooksville joins that GO list in travel advice aimed at big-event weekends. Zonta Meadows Park is one of the active redevelopment projects on the civic homepage, proof that park files stay live even in a city this large. Peel remains the upper-tier word Mississauga News uses when school-board scholars or public notices need a wider frame.
The local news diet lately clusters around housing task-force recommendations, a council step toward pausing new data centres, rental cooling rules, and mapped auto-theft counts. Those are desk themes, not the whole personality. On the OpenStats City Score for 2025, Mississauga sits at rank 203 of 343. Rankings aside, the hometown read is a MiWay ride into City Centre, a square that hosts the summer calendar, and a Port Credit evening when you want the lake instead of the mall.
Drawn from City of Mississauga, City Centre Transit Terminal, Celebration Square, MiWay MiSpot, Mississauga News.
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 Mississauga 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
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
Construction · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities ranked by calendar-year municipal building permit value per resident (total permit dollars divided by the OpenStats population field). Permit totals use verified municipality-grain rows (Statistics Canada CSD or equivalent municipal open data). Population uses Statistics Canada Census 2021 (tables 98-10-0006-01, 98-10-0002-01). Cities without a verified municipal permit series are unplaced; City Score uses median standing on the construction pillar.
Single edition · 2025
Only one published edition places Mississauga in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Sports · OpenStats
OpenStats
Canadian Hockey League (OHL, WHL, QMJHL) member cities ranked by regular-season points percentage. One CHL team maps to each OpenStats hometown slug; standings snapshot is curated from public league tables.
Single edition · 2025
Only one published edition places Mississauga in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
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
Sports · OpenStats
OpenStats
Hometowns with a mapped junior hockey franchise ranked by local sports depth: league tier (CHL member leagues = 1.0, MHL = 0.65) multiplied by regular-season points percentage. Surfaces cities with both a franchise and a strong standings year; not a City Score pillar input.
Single edition · 2025
Only one published edition places Mississauga 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 (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.
4 editions · 2014–2018
Quality of life
Numbeo
Crowd-sourced composite Quality of Life Index. Historical snapshots are free on Numbeo ranking pages; OpenStats cites Canadian cities from those public pages (cite_only). Higher index scores are better; ranks are global position on the snapshot page.
3 editions · 2024–2026
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
City Centre Transit Terminal is Mississauga's main MiWay hub on the 18 kilometre Mississauga Transitway, at the northwest corner of Square One.
MiWay's MiSpot list names Celebration Square, Square One, Port Credit, and Brueckner Rhododendron Gardens as go-to destinations.
Celebration Square's venue page lists 300 City Centre Drive and keeps 311 as the contact path for city limits callers.
Mississauga News fronts have been clustering council talk on data centres, rental cooling rules, and housing alongside Peel school-board stories.
Downtown civic square beside City Centre where summer fitness classes, movie nights, and amphitheatre shows share the same open floor. It is the event answer when someone asks what is on tonight.
Waterfront community MiWay treats as a favourite MiSpot. When City Centre feels like malls and buses, Port Credit is the lake-end reset on the same transit map.
The MiWay and Transitway hub next to Square One, with heated waiting areas and connections to GO and Brampton Transit. It is how a lot of Mississauga days actually begin.
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