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Matane drinking water hardness is 271 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
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#185 of 343
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Matane 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 Matane from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Matane.
Matane sits at City Score rank #185 with a standing of 50%, 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 62 places versus 2022 (#123 → #185).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #265 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #145 of 343 at 171 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #341 of 343 (6.84 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 Matane.
Waterfront street that hosts the STQ gare fluviale. It is where Matane turns from coastal town into Côte-Nord gateway.
Named green space in the leisure directory beside skatepark and trail listings. A quieter counterweight to the ferry terminal bustle.
The STQ ferry terminal sits at 1410, rue de Matane-sur-Mer for the Matane-Baie-Comeau-Godbout crossing.
Where Matane sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Matane sells its geography without soft focus. The municipal line is Entre vents, marées et monts: fleuve on one side, mountains on the other, and tide talk that shows up in civil-security pages about grandes marées. Rue de Matane-sur-Mer holds the ferry terminal for the Traverse Matane–Baie-Comeau–Godbout, the STQ link that makes this waterfront a door to the Côte-Nord instead of a dead end on the map. Reservations matter; the crossing is infrastructure, not a novelty cruise.
Downtown leisure stays practical. Parc multirécréatif du centre-ville hosts mini-basket nights, Bibliothèque municipale de Matane runs Biblioclub summers under the Matanété label, and the piscine municipale posts its annual maintenance closure like any other service notice. Stade du Rempart and Stade Fournier keep the sports map named, while Parc des Îles covers the green-space side beside skatepark and trail listings. Fleurons du Québec grading returns each year, so landscaping is scored, not just admired from a lookout. Firehall staffing going 24 hours is the kind of service notice that lands harder in a coastal town than a glossy tourism line ever could.
Matane has no OpenStats City Score rank in the current datapack, so the profile stays with character over standings. The hometown read is a river town that catches the ferry, watches the tides, and fills Matanété calendars between marina weather and mountain weather without borrowing a bigger city's voice. Matane-sur-Mer is the street name you learn if you are driving onto the boat. The fleuve sets the mood before any slogan does.
Drawn from Ville de Matane, Ville de Matane découvrir, STQ Matane ferry.
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.
Ville de Matane frames itself Entre vents, marées et monts on the home about block.
The STQ ferry terminal sits at 1410, rue de Matane-sur-Mer for the Matane–Baie-Comeau–Godbout crossing.
Matanété appears as a municipal programming label on the summer activity list.
Coastal risk navigation includes inondations and grandes marées alongside fire prevention.
Waterfront street that hosts the STQ gare fluviale. It is where Matane turns from coastal town into Côte-Nord gateway.
Downtown multi-use park on the municipal activity calendar. Mini-basket nights keep it busy after ferry traffic fades.
Named green space in the leisure directory beside skatepark and trail listings. A quieter counterweight to the ferry terminal bustle.
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