Quebec · Civic arena
Dolbeau-Mistassini drinking water hardness is 178 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#262 of 343
44% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Dolbeau-Mistassini 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.
Rivalries on deck
Hardness, pH, and lead from municipal reports on the OpenStats water atlas.
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Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Dolbeau-Mistassini from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Dolbeau-Mistassini.
Dolbeau-Mistassini sits at City Score rank #262 with a standing of 44%, 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 32 places versus 2022 (#230 → #262).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #199 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #6 of 343 at 278 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #158 of 343 (10.17 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 #262 of 343
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Achievements
Published residential mill-rate context for Dolbeau-Mistassini.
Late-summer festival site tied to avenue de l'Église programming. Music, family activities, and blueberry desserts define August here.
Regional bike circuit that treats Dolbeau-Mistassini as a northern Lac-Saint-Jean stop rather than a detour.
La chaleur du Nord du Lac is the municipal welcome slogan.
Where Dolbeau-Mistassini sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Dolbeau-Mistassini introduces itself as the Capitale mondiale du bleuet sauvage, and the city means the phrase as identity rather than marketing fluff. La chaleur du Nord du Lac is the welcome line on the homepage, and the commercial pitch is blunt: pôle commercial du nord du Lac-Saint-Jean. Boulevard Wallberg holds city hall. Avenue de l'Église carries festival and library addresses. Lac Saint-Jean beaches sit close enough that August still smells like shoreline and fruit stands before anyone opens a brochure.
Festival du Bleuet is the annual proof of the brand. Music, family grounds, and blueberry desserts fill the calendar while the Véloroute des Bleuets rolls riders through the haut du Lac-Saint-Jean and treats the town as a real stop. The city even points to chocolat aux bleuets frais des Pères as a seasonal ritual, not a souvenir-shop invention for strangers. When visitors ask what the north shore is for, locals still answer with fruit, festival nights, and lake water first.
Everyday geography keeps quieter names too. Vauvert shows up in municipal works notices, boulevard Vézina carries public works yards, and planning committees keep meeting through ordinary July heat. Put together, Dolbeau-Mistassini is a lake-north service town that built its public identity around one berry, a bike route, and a festival that still owns August without needing to borrow another city's story. Boulevard Wallberg administration and avenue de l'Église festival nights sit a short drive from lac Saint-Jean sand, which is why Nord du Lac still feels like one continuous summer map.
Drawn from Ville de Dolbeau-Mistassini, Destination Lac-Saint-Jean.
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.
The city calls itself the Capitale mondiale du bleuet sauvage on its homepage.
La chaleur du Nord du Lac is the municipal welcome slogan.
Festival du Bleuet anchors late-summer programming around avenue de l'Église.
Municipal copy highlights annual chocolat aux bleuets frais des Pères production.
Late-summer festival site tied to avenue de l'Église programming. Music, family activities, and blueberry desserts define August here.
Beach kilometres the city cites as part of living in the Nord du Lac. Summer evenings lean lakeward.
Regional bike circuit that treats Dolbeau-Mistassini as a northern Lac-Saint-Jean stop rather than a detour.
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