Quebec · Civic arena
Saguenay drinking water hardness is 194 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#153 of 343
52% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Saguenay 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 Saguenay water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Victoriaville · vs Saint-HyacintheHardness guide
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Source, treatment, and distribution for Saguenay from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Saguenay.
Saguenay sits at City Score rank #153 with a standing of 52%, 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. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #334 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #55 of 343 at 244 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #248 of 343 (8.45 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 Saguenay.
A Chicoutimi heritage site the city still programs for family visits. It keeps the old trading-post name in everyday outing talk.
A named lake on the municipal environment list, part of the wider water geography around Saguenay.
Hydro-Jonquière is the municipal utility brand for billing and service requests.
Where Saguenay sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
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 2026, Saguenay sits at rank 67 of 125. 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 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 Saguenay posts arrondissement de Jonquière council dates as a separate civic rhythm.
Hydro-Jonquière is the municipal utility brand for billing and service requests.
City news marked thirty years since the Déluge as a public memory file in 2026.
On the OpenStats City Score for 2026, Saguenay ranks 67 of 125.
A Chicoutimi heritage site the city still programs for family visits. It keeps the old trading-post name in everyday outing talk.
A waterfront promenade that shows up in works notices when railings and retaining walls need repair. Locals know the corridor by that name.
A named lake on the municipal environment list, part of the wider water geography around Saguenay.
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