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Alma drinking water hardness is 168 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
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#121 of 343
54% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Alma 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.
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Hardness, pH, and lead from municipal reports on the OpenStats water atlas.
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Source, treatment, and distribution for Alma from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Alma.
Alma sits at City Score rank #121 with a standing of 54%, 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 23 places versus 2022 (#98 → #121).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #33 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #22 of 343 at 268 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #142 of 343 (10.56 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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Arena rank #121 of 343
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Published residential mill-rate context for Alma.
Trail hub inside Parc d'une rive à l'autre with ridges that open toward the rivière Saguenay. Locals treat it as year-round ground
Municipal tourism stop that tells Alma's builder story without sending visitors to a generic museum brochure.
Parc d'une rive à l'autre links Centre plein air Dorval, Centre Mont Villa Saguenay, and Pointe des Américains.
Where Alma sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Alma sits where Lac-Saint-Jean water turns into working rivers, and locals talk about the town as territoire almatois rather than a generic lake stop. The Grande Décharge and Petite Décharge cut through daily geography the way other cities talk about ring roads. Trails at Pointe des Américains follow both channels, while Centre Mont Villa Saguenay looks down on the Petite Décharge from ski slopes that still feel downtown-close. Route 169 and the pont Carcajou keep the centre-ville tied to the rest of the Lac-Saint-Jean circuit, which is why bridge work always lands on the supper-table news.
Outdoor life is not a side dish here. Parc d'une rive à l'autre gathers Centre plein air Dorval, Mont Villa Saguenay, and Pointe des Américains into one recreation story, with Dorval ridges opening toward the rivière Saguenay on clear days. In warmer months, the Véloroute des Bleuets rolls through town and keeps bike culture in the same sentence as blueberries farther west on the lake. Families also point visitors to Centre de villégiature Dam-en-Terre, Odyssée des Bâtisseurs, and Chapelle Sainte-Anne when someone asks what to do beyond the grocery run. Quoi faire à Alma is literally how the city titles that calendar hunt.
Civic identity mixes hydro and culture without apology. Hydroélectricité sits on the municipal menu because Alma runs its own electric service, and Alma Spectacles plus Festivalma keep evenings loud enough for a regional centre. Put together, it is a Lac-Saint-Jean city that measures itself by riverbanks, trail heads, and a centre-ville that still matters when the highway slows. If you can name the Décharges and Dorval in one breath, you are already speaking Alma.
Drawn from Ville d'Alma - Découvrir Alma, Ville d'Alma, Destination Lac-Saint-Jean, Le Quotidien.
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
OpenStats
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
OpenStats
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
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). 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
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. 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
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.
Municipal copy frames the catchment as territoire almatois, not just a pin on Lac-Saint-Jean.
Parc d'une rive à l'autre links Centre plein air Dorval, Centre Mont Villa Saguenay, and Pointe des Américains.
Alma lists the Véloroute des Bleuets among its tourism staples.
Hydroélectricité is a named municipal service, not only a regional talking point.
Trail hub inside Parc d'une rive à l'autre with ridges that open toward the rivière Saguenay. Locals treat it as year-round ground for hiking, fatbike, and ski.
Linear trails between Grande Décharge and Petite Décharge that put river water inside the city limits. A short walk from Mont Villa Saguenay.
Municipal tourism stop that tells Alma's builder story without sending visitors to a generic museum brochure.
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