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Shawinigan drinking water hardness is 108 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
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#163 of 343
51% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
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Shawinigan 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 Shawinigan from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Shawinigan.
Shawinigan sits at City Score rank #163 with a standing of 51%, 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. Dropping 48 places versus 2022 (#115 → #163).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #330 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #310 of 343 at 58 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #212 of 343 (9.26 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 Shawinigan.
The industrial-heritage complex with observation tower, political museum, and amphitheatre nights. It is Shawinigan's one-stop answer
Downtown square that hosts L'été_à Shawi free concerts. Summer civic culture has a proper address here.
L'été_à Shawi is the municipal summer brand for Place du Marché concert nights.
Where Shawinigan sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Shawinigan answers to Shawi in ordinary speech, and Tourisme Shawinigan treats that short form as normal rather than cute. The Rivière Saint-Maurice runs through the urban core, so downtown directions still sound like river directions. Promenade du Saint-Maurice is where the tourism desk sits, which tells you how tightly the visitor map hugs the water. People here do not invent a separate brand geography; they point at the river and the energy heritage stacked beside it. Shawiniganaise and Shawiniganais demonyms still appear on civic identity pages when the city talks about itself in full.
Cité de l'énergie is the big named draw: industrial heritage, the Tour d'observation Hydro-Québec, and Musée du Premier ministre Jean Chrétien inside the same complex. Centrale Shawinigan-2 remains a working hydro plant that also takes tour traffic, so power history is not mothballed nostalgia. Amphithéâtre Québecor rotates for larger nights on the Cité site when the calendar calls for a bigger stage. Parc de l'île Melville keeps camping and park days close enough to downtown that you can still hear city traffic across the channel. Cousins get one clear outing list without needing a second city.
Summer civic life has its own brand. L'été_à Shawi fills Place du Marché with free concert nights, and Shawinigan-Nord shows up in aqueduct flushing notices the way any lived neighbourhood does when the water crew is on rotation. Road work and asphalt notices keep downtown practical, which fits a river city that still maintains itself in public. The OpenStats City Score puts Shawinigan at rank 15 of 125 in 2026, but the hometown tell is simpler: people say Shawi, keep their feet near the Saint-Maurice, and treat Cité de l'énergie as the place you take visitors who need one honest afternoon.
Drawn from Ville de Shawinigan, Tourisme Shawinigan, Cité de l'énergie.
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.
Tourisme Shawinigan frames Shawi as everyday local speech, not a marketing invention for outsiders only.
L'été_à Shawi is the municipal summer brand for Place du Marché concert nights.
Centrale Shawinigan-2 is still an operating hydro plant that doubles as a tour stop.
Musée du Premier ministre Jean Chrétien sits inside the Cité de l'énergie complex.
The industrial-heritage complex with observation tower, political museum, and amphitheatre nights. It is Shawinigan's one-stop answer when someone asks what to see.
Island park and camping near downtown on the Saint-Maurice. Close enough for a city evening, green enough to feel like a getaway.
Downtown square that hosts L'été_à Shawi free concerts. Summer civic culture has a proper address here.
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