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Sept-Îles drinking water hardness is 209 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
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#60 of 343
59% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
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Sept-Îles 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 Sept-Îles from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Sept-Îles.
Sept-Îles sits at City Score rank #60 with a standing of 59%, 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 #32 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #166 of 343 at 159 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #181 of 343 (9.85 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 Sept-Îles.
A reconstructed fur-trading post on the waterfront, paired with Musée de la Côte-Nord bookings. It is the shore stop that makes the bay
An outdoor recreation destination on the tourism home for days when you want trails and shoreline without a boat ticket.
Hop la Ville! is the municipal leisure and culture brand residents see on programming notices.
Where Sept-Îles sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Sept-Îles is a Côte-Nord hub that orients by Baie de Sept-Îles and the Archipel des Sept-Îles before it orients by inland streets. Septilien and Septilienne show up in municipal civic language, and tourism pages treat the seven-island archipelago as everyday geography rather than a day-trip novelty. The Port of Sept-Îles keeps Relance and Pointe-Noire terminals in the economic conversation, so mineral shipping is not background colour. It is how the bay earns its keep while Hop la Ville! programs fill leisure calendars.
Waterfront culture pairs with port talk. Vieux-Poste de Sept-Îles sits on the shore as a reconstructed fur-trading post, and Musée de la Côte-Nord shares the booking orbit for school groups and visitors. Île Grande Basque carries municipal camping listings for island weekends, while Station Gallix covers outdoor recreation farther out when the bay feels too busy. Uashat sits adjacent in tourism geography, so regional maps include the Innu community as neighbour, not footnote, which matters for how Septiliens describe the coast.
Civic life runs along boulevard Laure. Temporary city hall notices repeat Place Sept-Îles at Smith and Laure, and aqueduct drainage files name sectors like Jacques-Cartier when pipes get work. Errands, port shifts, and island plans share one weekly map. Sept-Îles sells itself as the Côte-Nord bay town where archipelago excursions, mineral terminals, and boulevard Laure services stay in the same sentence. On calm evenings, Septiliens still measure distance in bay crossings toward Île Grande Basque rather than highway exits. Port notices and Hop la Ville listings share the same civic week.
Drawn from Ville de Sept-Îles, Tourisme Sept-Îles, Port of Sept-Îles.
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.
The Port of Sept-Îles names Relance and Pointe-Noire terminals, so shipping talk stays geographically specific.
Hop la Ville! is the municipal leisure and culture brand residents see on programming notices.
Boulevard Laure and Place Sept-Îles have carried temporary city-hall addresses while civic offices shuffle.
Île Grande Basque is listed for municipal camping inside the archipelago outing menu.
A reconstructed fur-trading post on the waterfront, paired with Musée de la Côte-Nord bookings. It is the shore stop that makes the bay feel historic without needing a museum-only day.
The seven islands that give the city its name and close the bay. Excursions treat the archipelago as the main outdoor product, not a distant park.
An outdoor recreation destination on the tourism home for days when you want trails and shoreline without a boat ticket.
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