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Granby drinking water hardness is 200 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#134 of 343
53% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Granby 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 Granby from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Granby.
Granby sits at City Score rank #134 with a standing of 53%, 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 20 places versus 2022 (#154 → #134).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #326 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #250 of 343 at 100 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #188 of 343 (9.75 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 #134 of 343
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Published residential mill-rate context for Granby.
Conservation campus and family outing that still defines how outsiders first hear the city's name. Locals treat membership season like
Performance hall on rue Principale that Granbyens cite when they talk about downtown culture staying put.
City news uses Granbyen for hometown identity.
Where Granby sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Granby brands itself ville rayonnante, and Granbyens still explain the town with two anchors anyone can find without a map app: Zoo de Granby and lac Boivin. Rue Principale holds city hall and the Palace, the performance hall that keeps downtown nights booked when touring acts roll in. Between errands, people talk about bus routes on rue Denison Est the way other cities talk about parking, because transit growth has become a civic plotline rather than a footnote.
Lac Boivin is the hometown lake in the middle of the story. Centre d'interprétation de la nature du lac Boivin turns birding and shoreline walks into a regular habit, and municipal calendars even schedule Observation des perséides sur le lac Boivin when August skies cooperate. Carte-loisirs de Granby is how residents unlock pools and programs without a scavenger hunt across three websites. Civic memory still names Revi-centre beside the Palace when people recount downtown rebuild chapters.
The Zoo remains the out-of-town magnet, but locals claim it as family infrastructure as much as tourism branding. Put together, Granby keeps animals, a lake path, a main-street theatre, and a leisure card in the same hometown sentence. If you can stand on rue Principale, point toward lac Boivin, and still hear the Palace in the evening plans, you are already inside Granbyen's geography. Carte-loisirs renewals and Palace calendars share the same civic attention span as Zoo season, which is how Granbyens keep tourism infrastructure from feeling like someone else's town. Rue Principale still does double duty as errand street and Palace approach.
Drawn from Ville de Granby, Zoo de Granby.
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.
Municipal brand line is Granby ville rayonnante.
City news uses Granbyen for hometown identity.
Lac Boivin hosts nature interpretation and even Perseids watching on the municipal events list.
The Palace on rue Principale remains the downtown performance address.
Conservation campus and family outing that still defines how outsiders first hear the city's name. Locals treat membership season like a school calendar.
Central lake with the Centre d'interprétation de la nature du lac Boivin on its shore. Birding, cycling loops, and night-sky events keep it civic, not only scenic.
Performance hall on rue Principale that Granbyens cite when they talk about downtown culture staying put.
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