Ontario · Civic arena
Petawawa drinking water hardness is 118 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#235 of 343
46% City Score XP
6/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Petawawa 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.
Full Petawawa water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Sudbury · vs KingsvilleHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Petawawa 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.
Petawawa sits at City Score rank #235 with a standing of 46%, 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 69 places versus 2022 (#304 → #235).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #169 of 327 at 103 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #47 of 57 (9.43 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
In the 2025 City Score edition, Petawawa carries a City Score standing of 46% (rank #235 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 6 points below the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Petawawa ranks #96 of 123 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is property tax (standing 82%, rank #47 of 57, raw score 9.426758122743681). The weakest observed pillar is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 13%, rank #301 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 118 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Petawawa. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #235 of 343
6/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #272
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Rank #301
Rank #169
Rank #64
Rank #47
Petawawa 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 Petawawa.
Ottawa River beach and launch point for swim, paddle, and picnic days. Locals shorten it to the Point and treat it as the waterfront
Arts and heritage venue for historical reenactments on the Town recreation pages. It gives Petawawa a cultural address beyond trailheads
Town welcome copy names Garrison Petawawa as a defining institution beside canoeing, fishing, and trail access.
Where Petawawa sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Petawawa introduces itself with two facts that still shape the week: Garrison Petawawa and the Ottawa River. The Town home page puts the base front and centre as one of Canada's larger military postings, and Living Here copy speaks directly to households stationed there beside civilian neighbours. Water days point to Petawawa Point Beach and Petawawa Point Park, sandy river shore with paddling, swimming, and a boat launch. A new off-leash dog beach at the Point joined the recreation notices in 2026. When someone says they are heading to the Point, no further map is required.
Weekly rhythm often means the Petawawa Container Market at Civic Centre Park, Friday evenings and Saturday mornings stacked on the Town calendar. Festival season brings Water & Dirt, the name that ties river culture to ORV trails, with Get to the Point and the Civitan Duck Race among the featured turns. Parks and trails pages add the Algonquin Trail and a naming conversation around a new Ottawa Valley Recreational Trail. Heritage Village covers historical reenactments; the Public Library doubles as a community room for election sessions. Algonquin Provincial Park sits close enough that the Town lists easy access as part of the outdoor pitch without pretending the park gates are inside town limits.
Observer coverage still pairs Petawawa with the wider valley, including 3RCR Family Day boating notices that remind everyone the river is shared water. OpenStats has no composite City Score placement for Petawawa in the current datapack. The hometown read stays clear anyway: base town, river Point, Container Market weekends, and trails that keep dirt and water in the same sentence.
Drawn from Town of Petawawa, Town of Petawawa Living Here, Town of Petawawa Recreation & Tourism, Pembroke Observer.
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 Petawawa 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
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.
4 editions · 2014–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Town welcome copy names Garrison Petawawa as a defining institution beside canoeing, fishing, and trail access.
Petawawa Point Beach is listed as a sandy Ottawa River escape with swimming, paddling, picnics, and a boat launch.
The Petawawa Container Market runs Friday nights and Saturdays at Civic Centre Park on the Town events calendar.
Recreation pages highlight Algonquin Trail access and a public naming process for a new Ottawa Valley Recreational Trail.
Ottawa River beach and launch point for swim, paddle, and picnic days. Locals shorten it to the Point and treat it as the waterfront default.
Weekly market at Civic Centre Park with Friday evening and Saturday hours. It is the regular civic hangout when festivals are not on the calendar.
Arts and heritage venue for historical reenactments on the Town recreation pages. It gives Petawawa a cultural address beyond trailheads and the garrison gate.
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