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OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Port Hope.
City Score #89 (2022) → #137 (2025)
Port Hope sits at City Score rank #137 with a standing of 44%, from 8 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 48 places versus 2022 (#89 → #137).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #142 of 172 (2025); indoor radon rank #69 of 117 at 101 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #28 of 172 (14.25 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
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Documented pro, junior, university, and high-school teams tied to Port Hope.
Published residential mill-rate context for Port Hope.
The river locals call the Ganny runs through downtown into Lake Ontario. Fish Ladder viewing and riverside patios make it the town's
Trail network in the rugged landscape behind town, paired with Ganaraska Forest day trips for bikes and longer walks.
East Beach and West Beach give two different Lake Ontario moods: sand on one side, pebbles and sea glass on the other.
Where Port Hope sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Port Hope sits on Lake Ontario where the Ganaraska River cuts through a heritage downtown before reaching the water. Locals still call the river the Ganny, and tourism pages point visitors to the Fish Ladder when trout and salmon are running. East Beach and West Beach bookend the shoreline, and the Waterfront Trail stitches lake days to quiet walks. Inland, the Ganaraska Millennium Conservation Area and Ganaraska Forest pull people toward bike trails and longer loops once the downtown errands are done. Fish-migration weekends still rearrange parking and patio chatter along the river.
Downtown Port Hope wears its nineteenth-century streetscape without apology. The Capitol Theatre anchors Queen Street nights with professional stage work under the Cameco Capitol Arts Centre roof, and the municipal calendar puts an Arts Festival on the summer list. County Road 2 still offers the scenic lakeshore run when Highway 401 feels like a chore. Today's Northumberland covers the town as part of a wider Northumberland County beat, so Port Hope news often arrives beside Cobourg waterfront chatter.
Everyday files keep the place grounded. Walton Street Reconstruction sits in the municipal living-here menu, and the Port Hope Area Initiative remains a standing label for the long remediation story locals already know by initials. Craft-beer stops and library storytimes share the tourism itinerary boards with beach blankets. On OpenStats City Score for 2026, Port Hope sits at rank 61 of 125. The hometown introduction still starts with the Ganny meeting the lake, then the theatre lights, then a beach bag.
Drawn from Port Hope Tourism, Capitol Theatre, Municipality of Port Hope, Today's Northumberland.
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.
Connectivity · OpenStats
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Cities ranked by estimated best advertised download (Mbps). Anchored to the current ISED National Broadband Data vintage, then backcast along a national speed curve with city-specific fiber-arrival and 50/10 availability paths so relative ranks can change over the decade. Not a claim of audited historical hex maps for every year.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Construction · OpenStats
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Cities ranked by calendar-year building permit value. Direct rows sum Statistics Canada Table 34-10-0292-01. Cities without a direct reading use population × provincial per-capita permit intensity (estimated), so every seed city has a year-varying construction signal.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Composite · OpenStats
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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). Growth and CSI use StatCan annual tables; permits, 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
Safety · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index (Table 35-10-0026-01). Rank 1 is highest CSI (worse). Values are CMA where a metro match exists, otherwise provincial CSI. Hometown pages label the grain.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Water · OpenStats
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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
Cities ranked by weighted count of documented local teams (pro, junior, university, high-school hubs). Rank 1 = deepest documented sports footprint among covered seed cities. Not a claim about on-field success. See sports methodology for weights and gaps.
Single edition · 2025
Only one published edition places Port Hope 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. Rank 1 is the highest rate. Published municipal years are used when available; gaps are interpolated or follow the provincial median path so the tax pillar moves year to year for every city.
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.
Tourism maps highlight a Fish Ladder on the Ganaraska River for watching trout and salmon during migration.
East Beach and West Beach give two different Lake Ontario moods: sand on one side, pebbles and sea glass on the other.
The Capitol Theatre stages professional theatre in downtown Port Hope from the Cameco Capitol Arts Centre.
Municipal pages list an Arts Festival among summer community events.
The river locals call the Ganny runs through downtown into Lake Ontario. Fish Ladder viewing and riverside patios make it the town's clearest geographic signature.
Professional stage house in the heritage core, also a hub for Northumberland community productions and screenings. It is the night-time counterweight to beach and trail days.
Trail network in the rugged landscape behind town, paired with Ganaraska Forest day trips for bikes and longer walks.
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