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Drummondville drinking water hardness is 173 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
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#82 of 343
56% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Drummondville 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 Drummondville from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Drummondville.
Drummondville sits at City Score rank #82 with a standing of 56%, 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 #14 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #14 of 343 at 273 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #304 of 343 (7.59 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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Published residential mill-rate context for Drummondville.
Living-history village on the Saint-François that Drummondvillois treat as both tourism engine and local weekend outing.
Downtown river meeting ground with splash features and a heated outdoor pool. A default hangout for families after errands on rue Lindsay.
Promenade Rivia offers a multiuse path with views toward Village Québécois d'Antan houses.
Where Drummondville sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Drummondville is a Centre-du-Québec city that still orients itself by the rivière Saint-François. Drummondvillois cross it for work, fish it for supper, and argue about spring floods the way other towns argue about snowbanks. City hall sits on rue Lindsay, but the emotional map is riverside: Parc Woodyatt downtown, Parc Sainte-Thérèse for family swim days, Parc des Voltigeurs for BMX and disc golf, and quieter lookouts like Parc des Rapides-Spicer when someone wants moving water in the soundtrack.
Parc à Parc is the local name for stitching those parks into one circuit, complete with a cyclo-pedestrian Traversier between shores in the warm months. Promenade Rivia runs beside the Village Québécois d'Antan, so heritage tourism and evening rollerskate traffic share the same bank without needing separate cities. Farther out, parc régional de la Forêt Drummond splits into east and west shores and keeps Route verte riders in the trees when downtown feels too loud.
Summer culture stays close to the water too. Place Saint-Frédéric hosts free spectacles, parc Milette runs Conteneurs culturels workshops, and Scène nomade moves Sunday shows from park to park. InfoDMV and Nouveaux Drummondvillois pages show a city that expects arrivals and tries to onboard them. On the Saint-François, Drummondville sells itself as a river metro that still names its parks like neighbours and keeps the Village Québécois d'Antan inside the weekly outing list. The Traversier is free, seasonal, and oddly beloved: Drummondvillois use it as both shortcut and tiny cruise between Parc Kounak and the airport shore before finishing Parc à Parc on the other bank.
Drawn from Tourisme Drummondville - Parc à Parc, Ville de Drummondville, Village Québécois d'Antan.
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.
Parc à Parc links about fourteen riverside parks with a free Traversier for bikes and pedestrians.
Promenade Rivia offers a multiuse path with views toward Village Québécois d'Antan houses.
Place Saint-Frédéric is the downtown square the city uses for free summer spectacles.
Municipal pages greet newcomers under the Nouveaux Drummondvillois label.
Living-history village on the Saint-François that Drummondvillois treat as both tourism engine and local weekend outing.
Riverside multiuse promenade adopted since 2019, with fishing spots and a view to the Village Québécois d'Antan.
Downtown river meeting ground with splash features and a heated outdoor pool. A default hangout for families after errands on rue Lindsay.
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