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Sainte-Marie drinking water hardness is 262 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#314 of 343
37% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Sainte-Marie 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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Source, treatment, and distribution for Sainte-Marie from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Sainte-Marie.
Sainte-Marie sits at City Score rank #314 with a standing of 37%, 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 23 places versus 2022 (#337 → #314).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #331 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #91 of 343 at 212 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #62 of 343 (12.28 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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Achievements
Published residential mill-rate context for Sainte-Marie.
Sports and events complex featured on the city home. Default indoor booking address for mariverain weekends.
Named mountain-bike trail sectors on leisure maps. Locals give trail directions by these labels.
A dedicated municipal page tracks water levels on the rivière Chaudière.
Where Sainte-Marie sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Sainte-Marie is a Nouvelle-Beauce town where mariverains still check the niveau de l'eau de la rivière before a wet spring weekend. The municipal Chaudière level page is a staple, not a novelty, and flood forms sit beside ordinary water-restriction notices on the same citizen desk. Tourism invites visitors to douceurs mariveraines, but daily life also names autoroute Robert-Cliche (A-73) and route du Président-Kennedy (173) as the real approaches, plus Route de la Beauce for the scenic loop toward neighbouring towns.
Centre Caztel anchors sports and events, and Cité Sainte-Marie labels the education-sport-culture campus area on the city home so parents and coaches share one place name. Mountain-bike maps split into secteur PBV and réservoir Bisson, so trail talk stays specific instead of vague forest directions. SAMAR (Société de l'arbre mariveraine) and TEDxSainteMarie show up on leisure menus, which is a tidy mix of tree society and local talks. MRC de La Nouvelle-Beauce framing keeps Sainte-Marie tied to the wider Beauce county map that Beauce Média also covers.
Mariverain identity stays town-scale even when regional news arrives: Chaudière levels, Caztel bookings, bike sectors, and highway exits. Sainte-Marie sells itself as the Nouvelle-Beauce stop where river watch, A-73 and route 173 approaches, and douceurs mariveraines share one municipal desk. Georgiens have their Beauce metro down the road; mariverains have the Chaudière gauge and Centre Caztel as the weekly reference points When the Chaudière rises, mariverains refresh the municipal level page the way other towns refresh a weather radar.
Drawn from Ville de Sainte-Marie, Beauce Média.
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.
2 editions · 2017–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
Mariverain is the demonym used in municipal Écrits mariverains and calendars.
A dedicated municipal page tracks water levels on the rivière Chaudière.
Autoroute Robert-Cliche (A-73) and route du Président-Kennedy (173) are the named access corridors on the discover page.
SAMAR is the Société de l'arbre mariveraine tree society listed by the city.
Sports and events complex featured on the city home. Default indoor booking address for mariverain weekends.
Education-sport-culture campus area named on municipal pages, a cluster rather than a single building.
Named mountain-bike trail sectors on leisure maps. Locals give trail directions by these labels.
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