Quebec · Civic arena
Gatineau drinking water hardness is 203 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#21 of 343
64% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Gatineau 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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Source, treatment, and distribution for Gatineau from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Gatineau.
Gatineau sits at City Score rank #21 with a standing of 64%, 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. Rising 10 places versus 2022 (#31 → #21).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #2 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #313 of 343 at 53 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #156 of 343 (10.23 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 #21 of 343
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Rank #156
Achievements
Published residential mill-rate context for Gatineau.
National museum on the Hull shore of the rivière des Outaouais. The building is part of how Gatineau explains itself to visitors
Artistic downtown pocket inside Hull, close to shoreline trails and the museum district.
Musée canadien de l'histoire sits on the Hull waterfront and anchors visitor itineraries.
Where Gatineau sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Gatineau is still five cities in one conversation. Locals navigate by Hull, Aylmer, Buckingham, Masson-Angers, and the Gatineau sector itself, the 2002 merger map that never left everyday speech. The rivière des Outaouais is the front porch facing Ottawa. The rivière Gatineau splits the east-west sprawl. Gatineau pour la vie is the municipal living brand, but the lived identity is Outaouais first: a Quebec shore that works across bridges, keeps French as the default, and still shops the capital-region calendar.
Hull carries the national skyline piece. Musée canadien de l'histoire sits on the waterfront, Vieux-Hull keeps an artsier pocket, and sentier des Voyageurs plus sentier du Ruisseau-de-la-Brasserie give walkers a shoreline grammar after office hours. Aylmer leans residential and river-facing. Buckingham and Masson-Angers keep a village pace inside the big-city envelope. Between them, Rapibus stitches commuting, while Université du Québec en Outaouais keeps student life on the Quebec side of Ottawa-Gatineau instead of treating the river as a one-way drain.
Weekends pull toward parc de la Gatineau trails, parc du Lac-Beauchamp, and the expérience gatinoise of bikes and ski tracks that tourism pages refuse to treat as optional scenery. Festival de montgolfières de Gatineau fills late summer, Tour de Gatineau brings elite cycling, and Maison de la culture's salle Odyssée holds the indoor stage when weather turns. It is a capital-region city that insists on naming its secteurs before anyone collapses them into a single suburb label. Le Droit keeps the Outaouais conversation loud, but the street-level grammar stays secteurs, bridges, Rapibus, and parc de la Gatineau trailheads after supper.
Drawn from Ville de Gatineau, Tourisme Outaouais, Le Droit.
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
Housing
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Average rent for purpose-built 2-bedroom apartments (all tenants) from CMHC Rental Market Survey. Rank 1 = lowest average rent among covered CMAs.
Single edition · 2025
Only one published edition places Gatineau in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Housing
Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
Purpose-built rental apartment vacancy rate from CMHC Rental Market Survey (October). Rank 1 = highest vacancy (most available rental stock among covered CMAs).
2 editions · 2024–2025
Livability
The Globe and Mail
2023 data partnership with Environics Analytics ranking 439 Canadian communities on ten livability categories.
Single edition · 2023
Only one published edition places Gatineau in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
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.
Everyday geography still uses the five secteurs: Aylmer, Hull, Gatineau, Buckingham, and Masson-Angers.
Musée canadien de l'histoire sits on the Hull waterfront and anchors visitor itineraries.
Festival de montgolfières de Gatineau is the city's marquee late-summer event.
Rapibus is the STO rapid-bus spine locals cite when explaining cross-sector commuting.
National museum on the Hull shore of the rivière des Outaouais. The building is part of how Gatineau explains itself to visitors from Ottawa.
Trail network for hiking and cross-country ski that defines the expérience gatinoise outdoors calendar.
Artistic downtown pocket inside Hull, close to shoreline trails and the museum district.
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