Saguenay, Quebec
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Saguenay

Saguenay drinking water hardness is 194 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.

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Saguenay

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48XP
#205

#205 of 343

48% City Score XP

City Score XP

6/8 pillars on the board

48%#205

Decade trail

Saguenay packs 6 of eight open-data pillars into its composite standing. Tap a rival below to see how the hometown stacks up head-to-head.

Saguenay drinking water

Regional estimate from nearest municipal sample

Hardness, pH, and lead from municipal reports on the OpenStats water atlas. This page uses a regional estimate — open the water atlas for method notes.

Hardness
194 mg/L
very hard
pH
8.2
Lead
0.2 μg/L

Full Saguenay water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Val-d'Or · vs GatineauHardness guide

Watershed to tap · system map

How Saguenay's water works

Source, treatment, and distribution for Saguenay from municipal and provincial water records. Open the animated map for the full watershed-to-tap diagram — no nested topic navigation here.

Local numbers for Saguenay

Permits, tax, internet, radon, hazards, drinking water, and sports rankings where a CHL hometown applies.

Sports

Junior hockey in Saguenay

Full sports page →
Team
Chicoutimi Saguenéens
League
QMJHL
Points %
73.1%

67 GP · 98 pts · Compare CHL cities

How Saguenay scores

Saguenay sits at City Score rank #205 with a standing of 48%, from 6 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: indoor radon rank #178 of 327 at 96 Bq/m³ survey mean. Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

Among Canadian cities on the hub, Saguenay carries a City Score standing of 48% (rank #205 of 343) with 6 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 1 points above the Quebec peer average across 34 ranked cities. Within Quebec, Saguenay ranks #14 of 34 on City Score.

The strongest signal in the current chart is police-reported crime severity (standing 96%, rank #98 of 102, 49.3 CSI). The weakest observed pillar is seismic hazard (standing 3%, rank #11 of 343). Crime severity uses the Statistics Canada police-service CSI mapped to Saguenay, Quebec (table 35100026), not a regional proxy.

Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 194 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Saguenay. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.

#205
Arena rank (of 343)
48%
City Score
6
Pillars observed

Arena loadout

Topic XP bars

Arena rank #205 of 343

City Score

6/8 pillars · main XP bar

48%#205
Drinking water

Pillar avg · hardness #128

55%
Building permits

No placement

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Internet

Rank #179

48%
Radon

Rank #178

54%
Hazards

Rank #11

3%
Property tax

No placement

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Saguenay pillar standing

Eight equal-weight City Score pillars, 2025 panel year.

TaxPermitsNetRadonWaterHazardsGrowthCrime

Source: OpenStats composite / study editions

City Score standing trend

Standing percentage by panel year (higher is better).

Years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

Source: OpenStats composite timeseries

Hometown notes

City profile

Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.

Saguenay in brief

Saguenay is one city that still thinks in boroughs. The arrondissement de Jonquière keeps its own council calendar, Chicoutimi carries heritage sites like the Poste-de-Traite-de-Chicoutimi, and Arvida shows up when aluminum-era programming hits the news brief. Hydro-Jonquière is the utility name on the bill, not a metaphor, and residents know which portal to open when the statement looks wrong. Along the water, the promenade Rivière-du-Moulin has been under repair notices while Lac Kénogami stays on the environment map people already know how to find.

The rivière Saguenay and the wider Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean region give the place its outdoor scale, from fjord talk to lake weekends. Promotion Saguenay handles the business and tourism door for investors and newcomers who need a single civic partner instead of a scavenger hunt. Le Quotidien remains the cooperative desk people mean when they say the regional paper, and Radio-Canada Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean keeps the broadcast frame. In 2026 the city marked thirty years since the Déluge, keeping flood memory on the civic calendar instead of burying it under newer headlines.

On the OpenStats City Score for 2025, Saguenay sits at rank 122 of 343. Rankings aside, the hometown read is borough names you can point to, a utility called Hydro-Jonquière, and a river corridor that still shapes weekend talk. Saguenay sounds like itself when Jonquière, Chicoutimi, Arvida, and the Déluge all fit in the same paragraph without needing a travel brochure or a borrowed slogan. That borough-and-river texture is what keeps Saguenay from swapping with any other Quebec amalgamated city.

Drawn from Ville de Saguenay, Le Quotidien, Promotion Saguenay, Radio-Canada Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean.

City Score over time

City Score from 2016–2025 across eight open-data pillars. Individual study placements are listed in the panels below.

0%25%50%75%100%2016201720182019202020212022202320242025
OpenStats City Score

Rankings for Saguenay

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 Broadband Download Speeds

OpenStats

Cities ranked by household-weighted maximum advertised download (Mbps) from ISED National Broadband Data hex ISP rows, with hex-to-city assignment by population-weighted gravity. The headline 2025 score is the dwelling-weighted mean of per-hex technology ceilings (fibre and cable at 1 Gbps, DSL lower). Household-weighted 50/10 availability (%) is stored on atlas rows as avail_5010_pct. Earlier panel years backcast along a national speed curve with city-specific fiber and availability paths.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#179
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 456.9

Sports · OpenStats

OpenStats CHL Points Percentage

OpenStats

Canadian Hockey League (OHL, WHL, QMJHL) member cities ranked by regular-season points percentage. One CHL team maps to each OpenStats hometown slug; standings snapshot is curated from public league tables.

Single edition · 2025

#11
Published · 2025 · of 45
Score 0.731

Only one published edition places Saguenay in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Composite · OpenStats

OpenStats City Score

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). Crime severity uses StatCan police-service CSI only (Tables 35-10-0026-01 and 35-10-0063-01); cities without a police-service match take median standing on the safety pillar. Growth uses StatCan CSD estimates; construction uses verified municipal building-permit value per resident (population field on each city record, 2021 Census vintage); 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

#205
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.481

Safety · OpenStats

OpenStats Crime Severity Index

OpenStats

Communities ranked by Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index at police-service grain (Tables 35-10-0026-01 and 35-10-0063-01 for British Columbia). Rank 1 is highest CSI (worse). Cities without a police-service match are not listed; the safety pillar scores at median standing on City Score. Hometown pages name the police service and reference year.

CSI from Saguenay, Quebec (2025, Table 35-10-0026-01).

10 editions · 2016–2025

#98
Latest · 2025 · of 102
Score 49.31

Water · OpenStats

OpenStats Drinking Water Hardness

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

#128
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 194

Health · OpenStats

OpenStats Highest Indoor Radon

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

#178
Latest · 2025 · of 327
Score 96.1

Sports · OpenStats

OpenStats Local Sports Depth

OpenStats

Hometowns with a mapped junior hockey franchise ranked by local sports depth: league tier (CHL member leagues = 1.0, MHL = 0.65) multiplied by regular-season points percentage. Surfaces cities with both a franchise and a strong standings year; not a City Score pillar input.

Single edition · 2025

#11
Published · 2025 · of 49
Score 0.731

Only one published edition places Saguenay in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Growth · OpenStats

OpenStats Population Growth

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

#250
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.004381761825139285

Hazards · OpenStats

OpenStats Seismic Hazard (PGA)

OpenStats

Communities ranked by NRCan peak ground acceleration (higher = stronger shaking hazard). Rank 1 is highest PGA. The seismic model is multi-year; values are carried across the City Score panel and flagged as static until NRCan publishes a new generation.

10 editions · 2016–2025

#11
Latest · 2025 · of 343
Score 0.282

Worth knowing in Saguenay

Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.

  • Ville de Saguenay posts arrondissement de Jonquière council dates as a separate civic rhythm.

    Ville de Saguenay

  • Hydro-Jonquière is the municipal utility brand for billing and service requests.

    Ville de Saguenay

  • City news marked thirty years since the Déluge as a public memory file in 2026.

    Ville de Saguenay

Places to see

Poste-de-Traite-de-Chicoutimi

A Chicoutimi heritage site the city still programs for family visits. It keeps the old trading-post name in everyday outing talk.

promenade Rivière-du-Moulin

A waterfront promenade that shows up in works notices when railings and retaining walls need repair. Locals know the corridor by that name.

Lac Kénogami

A named lake on the municipal environment list, part of the wider water geography around Saguenay.

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