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Cowansville drinking water hardness is 96 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
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#16 of 343
67% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Cowansville 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 Cowansville from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Cowansville.
Cowansville sits at City Score rank #16 with a standing of 67%, 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. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #119 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #256 of 343 at 96 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #209 of 343 (9.34 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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Achievements
Published residential mill-rate context for Cowansville.
Municipal shoreline park on Lac Davignon with beach, trails, and family courts. Cowansvillois treat chemin de la Plage as the summer
Civic square address for city hall, the formal front door of Brome-Missisquoi's main town.
Centre de la nature sits on Lac Davignon at 225, chemin de la Plage.
Where Cowansville sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Cowansville is the main town Cowansvillois mean when they talk about Brome-Missisquoi needing a real centre. The MRC calls it the region's grand pôle socio-économique, and Place Municipale still anchors the civic map with city hall in plain sight. The city prefers the phrase ville dynamique à dimension humaine: big enough for services, small enough that chemin de la Plage still leads to a beach people treat as their own backyard rather than a tourist invention.
Lac Davignon is the weekend argument that settles most family debates. Centre de la nature puts splash pads, trails, courts, and boat rentals on the same shoreline, and summer calendars pair Cinéma en plein air with the Minimarché estival when the evenings stay warm. Farther into the green belt, Parc nature Jacques-Bonnette carries a quieter biodiversity story, including a wood-turtle partnership locals hear about in municipal bulletins instead of travel magazines.
Buy-local language is unusually specific here. Dollars Cowansville, Fait à Cowansville, and the Chambre de Commerce de Brome-Missisquoi keep commerce named instead of generic. The 150e anniversaire de Cowansville has been riding the homepage as a civic countdown. For a Brome-Missisquoi town on the English-French seam, Cowansville still introduces itself first as a lake-and-MRC hub that knows its demonym and its beach road. On a July evening the Minimarché estival and Centre de la nature crowd make Lac Davignon feel like the town square, and Dollars Cowansville receipts keep the buy-local habit concrete. Place Municipale remains the formal front door when the beach crowd heads back uphill.
Drawn from Ville de Cowansville, MRC Brome-Missisquoi, Tourisme Brome-Missisquoi.
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.
Residents are Cowansvillois and Cowansvilloises on the MRC municipal page.
Centre de la nature sits on Lac Davignon at 225, chemin de la Plage.
Dollars Cowansville is a named local-currency program on the city site.
The city has been marking its 150e anniversaire on the homepage.
Municipal shoreline park on Lac Davignon with beach, trails, and family courts. Cowansvillois treat chemin de la Plage as the summer default.
Quieter nature park tied to biodiversity work, including wood-turtle habitat messaging in city materials.
Civic square address for city hall, the formal front door of Brome-Missisquoi's main town.
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