Nova Scotia · Civic arena
New Glasgow drinking water hardness is 241 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#224 of 343
47% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
New Glasgow 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.
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.
Full New Glasgow water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Yarmouth · vs AmherstHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for New Glasgow 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.
New Glasgow sits at City Score rank #224 with a standing of 47%, 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. Dropping 10 places versus 2022 (#214 → #224).
Latest owned placements: residential mill rate rank #4 of 57 (18.40 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, New Glasgow carries a City Score standing of 47% (rank #224 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 2 points below the Nova Scotia peer average across 9 ranked cities. Within Nova Scotia, New Glasgow ranks #7 of 9 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is seismic hazard (standing 71%, rank #244 of 343, raw score 0.035). The weakest observed pillar is property tax (standing 7%, rank #4 of 57).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 241 mg/L as CaCO₃ for New Glasgow. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #224 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #55
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Rank #244
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New Glasgow 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 New Glasgow.
Municipal park listed as Their Light Will Always Shine. It is one of the clearest named memorial spaces on the town visitor parks list.
Sports complex with a listed playground on the municipal visitor pages. It sits with neighbourhood parks like Carmichael and Laurie
The New Glasgow Public Library is temporarily at the Aberdeen Business Centre on East River Road during revitalization.
Where New Glasgow sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
New Glasgow introduces itself as Pictou County first, with a municipal land acknowledgement for Mi'kmaq territory on the town site. The visitor pages read like a neighbourhood map: Carmichael, Laurie, Rotary, Murdoch, and Africentric parks, plus Westray Memorial Park under the title Their Light Will Always Shine. Playgrounds stretch from Munroe Avenue to Scott Weeks Sports Complex and the South End Playground dedicated to Dr. Carrie Best. Art in the Park and Ice Cream Hike style listings keep the summer calendar neighbourly and close to home.
The New Glasgow Public Library is mid-rebuild, operating from the Aberdeen Business Centre on East River Road while the Library Revitalization Project aims for a Destination Centre with maker spaces and meeting rooms. Bee City Canada certification shows up in community columns about pollinator planting and reduced pesticides, alongside shout-outs to the Museum of Industry. Dalhousie Street traffic advisories remind you this is still a working downtown street grid, not a brochure. Pictou County history collections at the temporary library keep the county story close even while the building is under construction.
Aberdeen Regional Hospital appears in the regional news beat as a Pictou County landmark of another kind. On OpenStats City Score for 2025, New Glasgow sits at rank 242 of 343. The hometown frame stays parks and memorials, a library in transition, and Bee City habits before any mill-rate table. Ask for directions and you will hear East River Road, Dalhousie Street, and which town park the kids actually use after school.
Drawn from Town of New Glasgow - Visitors, Town of New Glasgow - Community, Town of New Glasgow, CBC Nova Scotia.
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 New Glasgow 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
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
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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
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.
5 editions · 2014–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
The New Glasgow Public Library is temporarily at the Aberdeen Business Centre on East River Road during revitalization.
Westray Memorial Park appears on the municipal parks list as Their Light Will Always Shine.
New Glasgow is a certified Bee City with municipal pollinator planting commitments.
South End Playground is dedicated to Dr. Carrie Best on the town playground roster.
Municipal park listed as Their Light Will Always Shine. It is one of the clearest named memorial spaces on the town visitor parks list.
Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library branch temporarily based at Aberdeen Business Centre while the Library Revitalization Project rebuilds the home facility into a Destination Centre.
Sports complex with a listed playground on the municipal visitor pages. It sits with neighbourhood parks like Carmichael and Laurie as everyday recreation geography.
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