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Joliette drinking water hardness is 189 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#331 of 343
33% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Joliette 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 Joliette from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Joliette.
Joliette sits at City Score rank #331 with a standing of 33%, 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 #228 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #61 of 343 at 239 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #13 of 343 (13.59 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 Joliette.
Downtown square that hosts the public market and Les Rendez-vous de la Place concerts. It is the stage locals point to when they say
River corridor that frames winter festival staging and everyday downtown geography. Joliette talks about the banks the way other towns talk
Marché public de Joliette sets up on Place Bourget every Saturday in season.
Where Joliette sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Joliette organizes itself around the Rivière L'Assomption and a downtown that expects an audience. Place Bourget holds the Saturday Marché public de Joliette, then flips into Les Rendez-vous de la Place when the outdoor concert season starts. Winter still claims Festi-Glace de Joliette, only now the celebration hugs the riverbanks instead of a vanished natural rink. Hydro-Joliette keeps the utility desk local, and Espace citoyen Civis is where residents chase leisure sign-ups without dressing the errand up as a grand digital transformation.
Culture is not a side file here. Festival de Lanaudière puts classical music on the municipal calendar the way other towns list softball, and Festival Mémoire et Racines keeps traditional tunes in the same downtown orbit. Festival du Rire de Joliette packs the centre-ville with comics for a few loud nights. Joliette Halte culturelle is the collective summer label that ties those partners together with the Ville de Joliette, so the season reads as one shared stage rather than a stack of unrelated posters. When works crews close Boulevard de l'Industrie or dig near Boulevard Manseau, the notices read like neighbourhood mail. Musée d'art de Joliette and Centre culturel Desjardins sit inside that same Halte culturelle partnership, so visual art and stage nights share the civic calendar with the classical festival.
On the OpenStats City Score for 2026, Joliette sits at rank 84 of 125. Rankings aside, the hometown read is a Lanaudière cultural halt: river on one side, Place Bourget on the other, and a summer that smells like market peaches and orchestra warm-ups. Parc des Dalles covers the skatepark days when the square is already full. Classical summer and market Saturday can share a weekend without competing for the same crowd.
Drawn from Ville de Joliette, Ville de Joliette festivals, Ville de Joliette contact, Ville de Joliette Halte culturelle.
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.
Festi-Glace de Joliette now gathers along the Rivière L'Assomption after the natural rink era ended.
Marché public de Joliette sets up on Place Bourget every Saturday in season.
Hydro-Joliette appears as its own municipal service line beside permits and Civis.
Joliette Halte culturelle unites Festival de Lanaudière with Musée d'art de Joliette and Centre culturel Desjardins.
Downtown square that hosts the public market and Les Rendez-vous de la Place concerts. It is the stage locals point to when they say the centre-ville is busy.
Municipal park with a skatepark program that surfaces as Ça planche à Joliette on the city calendar. A weekday stop when Place Bourget is packed.
River corridor that frames winter festival staging and everyday downtown geography. Joliette talks about the banks the way other towns talk about a main street alone.
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