Ontario · Civic arena
Timmins drinking water hardness is 133 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#270 of 343
44% City Score XP
6/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Timmins 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 Timmins water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Cochrane · vs South Bruce PeninsulaHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Timmins 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.
Timmins sits at City Score rank #270 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 36 places versus 2022 (#306 → #270).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #260 of 327 at 61 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #7 of 57 (17.96 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, Timmins carries a City Score standing of 44% (rank #270 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 8 points below the Ontario peer average across 123 ranked cities. Within Ontario, Timmins ranks #108 of 123 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is indoor radon (standing 80%, rank #260 of 327, raw score 61). The weakest observed pillar is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 6%, rank #322 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 133 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Timmins. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #270 of 343
6/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #227
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Rank #322
Rank #260
Rank #191
Rank #7
Timmins 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 Timmins.
A landmark open pit with its own City feedback channel. Locals treat the name as geography as much as history.
BIA-organized core of shops and seasonal events, from Santa Claus Parade to pop-ups and urban park days. It is where the Mattagami city
The City maintains a public Hollinger Open Pit feedback page, keeping the pit in current civic business.
Where Timmins sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Timmins sits along the Mattagami River in Northeastern Ontario, and Tourism Timmins still sells the place on mineral wealth and outdoor seasons in the same breath. Hollinger is the name that keeps the gold-camp past in daily civic talk: the City runs a Hollinger Open Pit feedback page, and the Timmins Museum points visitors to Hollinger House as a historical stop. The museum itself, the National Exhibition Centre on Second Avenue, is where heritage exhibits and community programs share a roof. Algonquin Blvd carries City Hall traffic; Service Timmins is the phone-and-counter brand when something needs fixing.
Downtown Timmins BIA speaks for a few hundred core businesses and fills the calendar with Santa Claus Parade nights, pop-up shops, and urban park gatherings. Porcupine Health Unit keeps the older Porcupine label alive on the municipal directory. Junior hockey fans follow the Timmins Rock; Timmins Transit covers the practical rides across a big northern footprint. Come North is the tourism invitation, honest about latitude without turning the city into brochure fiction.
The Daily Press front mixes ward politics with harder crime files and the occasional heritage-building reuse story, which is the tempo of a working northern city. Mining and mineral-resource talk stays present even when the day's headline is somewhere else on the highway. On the OpenStats City Score for 2025, Timmins sits at rank 189 of 343. Hometown character is Mattagami light on the water, Hollinger names on the map, and a downtown that still throws its own parade.
Drawn from City of Timmins, Tourism Timmins, Timmins Museum, Downtown Timmins BIA, The Daily Press.
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 Timmins 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.
Tourism Timmins situates the city along the Mattagami River and leans on mineral resources plus lakes-and-rivers recreation.
The City maintains a public Hollinger Open Pit feedback page, keeping the pit in current civic business.
Downtown Timmins BIA describes a collective of about 250 businesses in the core.
Timmins Rock is the NOJHL club linked from the City's find-or-learn pages.
A landmark open pit with its own City feedback channel. Locals treat the name as geography as much as history.
Heritage and visual arts destination on Second Avenue, with Hollinger House among the historical points of interest. Weekday and weekend hours keep it usable for residents, not only tourists.
BIA-organized core of shops and seasonal events, from Santa Claus Parade to pop-ups and urban park days. It is where the Mattagami city shows its main-street face.
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