New Brunswick · Civic arena
Miramichi drinking water hardness is 204 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#219 of 343
47% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Miramichi 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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Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Miramichi from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Miramichi.
Miramichi sits at City Score rank #219 with a standing of 47%, 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 30 places versus 2022 (#249 → #219).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #68 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #101 of 343 at 204 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #95 of 343 (11.64 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 #219 of 343
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Published residential mill-rate context for Miramichi.
The hometown waterway that still sets the outdoor agenda. Bass and salmon fishing, boat tours, and trail talk all circle back here.
A regional heritage stop named on city tourism pages for Indigenous culture visits tied to the wider Miramichi area.
Municipal pages brand Miramichi as a City of Festivals, naming the Folksong Festival, Irish Festival, and Rock n' Roll Festival in the same
Where Miramichi sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Miramichi orients itself to water before asphalt. The Miramichi River is the hometown spine: fishing talk still runs to striped bass and salmon, and tourism pages sell river boat tours the way other places sell skyline decks. On the municipal side, Chatham still shows up as a place name inside the amalgamated city, and Centennial Bridge notices remind you that getting across the river is civic business, not scenery. Recreation staff sit on Cove Road, trails get their own map, and Voyent Alert is the signup locals are nudged toward when weather or emergencies need a push notification. The land acknowledgement on the city site names Mi'kma'ki first, which matches how regional heritage visits are framed.
Summer branding leans hard into City of Festivals. The Folksong Festival, Irish Festival, and Rock n' Roll Festival share the calendar with kitchen-party nights that sound more like a living room than a ticketed stage. Metepenagiag Heritage Park anchors Indigenous heritage visits in the region, while Downtown BIAs keep the business streets in the conversation. The bigger build of the moment is the Miramichi Wellness Multiplex, the arena-track-gym-pool complex also tracked as the Arbec Wellness Centre and aimed at a fall 2026 opening. Progress notes talk concrete floors, brine piping for ice, and glazing the way other towns talk about a new rink alone.
On the OpenStats City Score for 2026, Miramichi sits at rank 29 of 125. Rankings aside, the local read is a river you fish, festivals you plan summer around, and a recreation build that is trying to match the outdoor reputation with indoor ice and water. If a stranger asked what Miramichi feels like, you would start on the river and end at a festival weekend, not at a provincial map label.
Drawn from City of Miramichi, City of Miramichi tourism, Miramichi Wellness Multiplex, Community Wellness & Recreation, CBC New Brunswick.
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.
City tourism calls Miramichi Canada's striped bass fishing capital and pairs that claim with world-renowned salmon fishing on the same river system.
Municipal pages brand Miramichi as a City of Festivals, naming the Folksong Festival, Irish Festival, and Rock n' Roll Festival in the same breath.
The Miramichi Wellness Multiplex is being built as an arena, walking track, gymnasium, pool, and community room complex with a fall 2026 opening target.
Voyent Alert is the city's pushed channel for location-based emergency and everyday resident notices.
The hometown waterway that still sets the outdoor agenda. Bass and salmon fishing, boat tours, and trail talk all circle back here.
The recreation project locals are watching rise through concrete and glazing updates. When it opens, it is meant to put ice, pool, and gym under one roof.
A regional heritage stop named on city tourism pages for Indigenous culture visits tied to the wider Miramichi area.
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