Quebec · Civic arena
Rimouski drinking water hardness is 134 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
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#110 of 343
55% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
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Rimouski 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 Rimouski from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Rimouski.
Rimouski sits at City Score rank #110 with a standing of 55%, 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 16 places versus 2022 (#126 → #110).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #95 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #334 of 343 at 34 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #199 of 343 (9.53 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 Rimouski.
The waterfront walk locals use when they want the fleuve Saint-Laurent without packing a day bag. It sits with the Brise-lames and Sentier
The park Rimouskois call le Bic when weekend plans need cliffs, trails, or a kayak day close to town.
Tourisme Rimouski lists the Promenade de la mer, Brise-lames, and Sentier Le Littoral among hometown shoreline stops.
Where Rimouski sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Rimouski organizes itself around the fleuve Saint-Laurent the way other towns organize around a main street. Tourisme Rimouski pushes people toward the Promenade de la mer, the Brise-lames, and the Sentier Le Littoral when they want salt air without leaving town. Out on the water, the île Saint-Barnabé is the island day trip that keeps showing up in local outing talk, especially when someone wants a boat day that still feels close to home. The municipal site still calls Rimouski a capitale régionale, which is how Rimouskois describe the services and appointments that pull the Bas-Saint-Laurent into one place rather than sending everyone farther upriver for the same errands.
East of the core, the Site historique maritime de la Pointe-au-Père packs a whole afternoon into one ticket line: the Musée Empress of Ireland, the sous-marin Onondaga, and the Station de phare. Nobody needs a brochure to say they are heading to Pointe-au-Père. For a bigger nature day, Parc national du Bic sits close enough that locals shorten it to le Bic and treat it as Rimouski weekend geography rather than a distant park. Kayak talk, cliff walks, and winter trail days all fold into that same Bic shorthand. Radio-Canada Bas-Saint-Laurent keeps the regional desk nearby when weather or civic files need a wider frame.
The hometown read is cheerful and specific. Check the river first, walk the Promenade de la mer when you only have an hour, and decide whether the longer day belongs to the submarine or the Bic. Rimouski stays a regional capital with a shoreline habit, not a generic Lower St. Lawrence postcard, and the landmarks locals name without thinking are the ones that keep the place sounding like itself on an OpenStats hometown page.
Drawn from Ville de Rimouski, Tourisme Rimouski, Site historique maritime de la Pointe-au-Père, Parc national du Bic (Sépaq), Radio-Canada Bas-Saint-Laurent.
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 Rimouski labels itself a capitale régionale on its discover menu.
Tourisme Rimouski lists the Promenade de la mer, Brise-lames, and Sentier Le Littoral among hometown shoreline stops.
The Pointe-au-Père site sells combined visits to the Musée Empress of Ireland, the sous-marin Onondaga, and the Station de phare.
Parc national du Bic is the nearby Sépaq park Rimouskois treat as local weekend ground.
The waterfront walk locals use when they want the fleuve Saint-Laurent without packing a day bag. It sits with the Brise-lames and Sentier Le Littoral in tourism outing lists.
A maritime complex where the museum, submarine, and lighthouse share one shoreline address. Pointe-au-Père is the shorthand that needs no explanation in Rimouski.
The park Rimouskois call le Bic when weekend plans need cliffs, trails, or a kayak day close to town.
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