Drummondville, Quebec
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Drummondville

Drummondville drinking water hardness is 173 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Drummondville

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55XP
#87

#87 of 343

55% City Score XP

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City Score XP

6/8 pillars on the board

55%#87

Decade trail

Drummondville 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.

Drummondville drinking water

Regional estimate from nearest municipal sample

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.

Hardness
173 mg/L
hard
pH
7.6
Lead
0.5 μg/L

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How Drummondville's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Drummondville from municipal and provincial water records. Open the animated map for the full watershed-to-tap diagram — no nested topic navigation here.

Local numbers for Drummondville

Permits, tax, internet, radon, hazards, drinking water, and sports rankings where a CHL hometown applies.

Sports

Junior hockey in Drummondville

Full sports page →
Team
Drummondville Voltigeurs
League
QMJHL
Points %
68.8%

64 GP · 88 pts · Compare CHL cities

How Drummondville scores

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Drummondville sits at City Score rank #87 with a standing of 55%, 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. Dropping 27 places versus 2022 (#60 → #87).

Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #306 of 327 at 41 Bq/m³ survey mean. Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

On the latest OpenStats pass, Drummondville carries a City Score standing of 55% (rank #87 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 8 points above the Quebec peer average across 34 ranked cities. Within Quebec, Drummondville ranks #3 of 34 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is indoor radon (standing 94%, rank #306 of 327, raw score 40.6). The weakest observed pillar is seismic hazard (standing 21%, rank #72 of 343). Crime severity uses the Statistics Canada police-service CSI mapped to Drummondville, Quebec (table 35100026), not a regional proxy.

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 173 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Drummondville. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#87
Arena rank (of 343)
55%
City Score
6
Pillars observed
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vs 2022
#60 → #87

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #87 of 343

City Score

6/8 pillars · main XP bar

55%#87
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #161

42%
Building permits

No placement

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Internet

Rank #64

82%
Radon

Rank #306

94%
Hazards

Rank #72

21%
Property tax

No placement

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Drummondville pillar standing

Eight equal-weight City Score pillars, 2025 panel year.

TaxPermitsNetRadonWaterHazardsGrowthCrime

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

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Hometown notes

City profile

Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.

Drummondville in brief

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 over time

City Score from 2016–2025 across eight open-data pillars. Individual study placements are listed in the panels below.

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Rankings for Drummondville

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 Broadband Download Speeds

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

#64
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 1000

Sports · OpenStats

OpenStats CHL Points Percentage

OpenStats

Canadian Hockey League (OHL, WHL, QMJHL) member cities ranked by regular-season points percentage. One CHL team maps to each OpenStats hometown slug; standings snapshot is curated from public league tables.

Single edition · 2025

#15
Published · 2025 · of 45
Score 0.688

Only one published edition places Drummondville in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Composite · OpenStats

OpenStats City Score

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

#87
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.551

Safety · OpenStats

OpenStats Crime Severity Index

OpenStats

Communities ranked by Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index at police-service grain (Tables 35-10-0026-01 and 35-10-0063-01 for British Columbia). Rank 1 is highest CSI (worse). Cities without a police-service match are not listed; the safety pillar scores at median standing on City Score. Hometown pages name the police service and reference year.

CSI from Drummondville, Quebec (2025, Table 35-10-0026-01).

5 editions · 2021–2025

#51
Latest · 2025 · of 102
Score 72.3

Water · OpenStats

OpenStats Drinking Water Hardness

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

#161
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 173

Health · OpenStats

OpenStats Highest Indoor Radon

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

#306
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 40.6

Sports · OpenStats

OpenStats Local Sports Depth

OpenStats

Hometowns with a mapped junior hockey franchise ranked by local sports depth: league tier (CHL member leagues = 1.0, MHL = 0.65) multiplied by regular-season points percentage. Surfaces cities with both a franchise and a strong standings year; not a City Score pillar input.

Single edition · 2025

#15
Published · 2025 · of 49
Score 0.688

Only one published edition places Drummondville in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Growth · OpenStats

OpenStats Population Growth

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

#166
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.011586663513833058

Hazards · OpenStats

OpenStats Seismic Hazard (PGA)

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

#72
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.11

Worth knowing in Drummondville

Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.

Places to see

Village Québécois d'Antan

Living-history village on the Saint-François that Drummondvillois treat as both tourism engine and local weekend outing.

promenade Rivia

Riverside multiuse promenade adopted since 2019, with fishing spots and a view to the Village Québécois d'Antan.

Parc Woodyatt

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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