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Lachute drinking water hardness is 133 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#48 of 343
60% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Lachute 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.
Full Lachute water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Sept-Îles · vs MontrealHardness guide
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Source, treatment, and distribution for Lachute from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Lachute.
Lachute sits at City Score rank #48 with a standing of 60%, 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. Dropping 28 places versus 2022 (#20 → #48).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #61 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #125 of 343 at 183 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #306 of 343 (7.51 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 Lachute.
Downtown main street between Avenue d'Argenteuil and Avenue Barron. Library conversion works make it the civic conversation piece this
River whose falls named the town and still appear on the municipal arms. It is the geographic shorthand Argenteuil residents share.
Bibliothèque Jean-Marc-Belzile is rising from the former United Church on the Principale works corridor.
Where Lachute sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Lachute still explains itself with water. The Rivière du Nord and the chute that named the town sit in the municipal arms, and Lachutois talk about the falls the way other places talk about a founding mill. Rue Principale is the spine. When crews close it between Avenue d'Argenteuil and Avenue Barron, everyone knows the reason: the old United Church is becoming Bibliothèque Jean-Marc-Belzile, a project big enough to own the summer works list and keep downtown conversation fixed on one block.
Geography keeps the town honest. Lachute calls itself the ville centre of the MRC d'Argenteuil, parked in the Laurentides between Montreal and Gatineau without pretending to be either. Parc Synercité is the industrial boast, sold as a circular-economy park rather than a generic shed row. Sports weekends bring the Tournoi national de hockey midget, the Marathon canadien de ski, and the Tournoi national de soccer de Lachute, so the arena calendar fills before any tourism brochure does. Council nights stream on the city YouTube channel and TVC d'Argenteuil, which is as local as media gets. Industrial growth and library construction share the same small-city contradiction: a place big enough to host national tournaments, still intimate enough that one street closure rearranges the week.
On the OpenStats City Score for 2026, Lachute sits at rank 83 of 125. The hometown line is simpler: Au cœur de ton histoire is the city slogan, the Nord still does the naming, and Principale remains the place you check before you plan a Saturday errand. The slogan works because the falls are still the easiest way to explain the name to a visitor.
Drawn from Ville de Lachute, Ville de Lachute history brand.
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 arms still show the chute of the Rivière du Nord that gave Lachute its name.
Bibliothèque Jean-Marc-Belzile is rising from the former United Church on the Principale works corridor.
Parc Synercité is framed by the city as a circular-economy industrial park.
Council sessions are carried on the city's YouTube channel and TVC d'Argenteuil.
Downtown main street between Avenue d'Argenteuil and Avenue Barron. Library conversion works make it the civic conversation piece this season.
New municipal library project regenerating a former church site. Locals track it through Principale closures and council updates.
River whose falls named the town and still appear on the municipal arms. It is the geographic shorthand Argenteuil residents share.
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