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Sherbrooke drinking water hardness is 277 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#205 of 343
48% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Sherbrooke 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 Sherbrooke from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Sherbrooke.
Sherbrooke sits at City Score rank #205 with a standing of 48%, 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 39 places versus 2022 (#166 → #205).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #169 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #136 of 343 at 177 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #129 of 343 (10.91 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 Sherbrooke.
Urban mountain park for ski and bike, with municipal lifts and a campus ownership tie. It is Sherbrooke's everyday outdoors address,
Campus partner in the Bellevue park story and a standing presence in how the city explains itself. Sherbrooke reads as a university town
Parc du Mont-Bellevue notes shared ownership with Université de Sherbrooke while the Ville operates the lifts.
Where Sherbrooke sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Sherbrooke is an Estrie city that still answers to Cantons-de-l'Est when older neighbours talk geography. La Tribune covers the cooperative paper desk for the region, so local news arrives with Estrie in the masthead rather than as a Montreal afterthought. Ville de Sherbrooke runs the civic machinery, while Destination Sherbrooke handles the visitor pitch. The hometown map is not a single boulevard; it is a university city that keeps a mountain inside the urban fence and expects residents to use both.
Parc du Mont-Bellevue is the outdoor shorthand. The Ville operates lifts, ski and bike traffic share the slopes, and mont J.-S.-Bourque gives the park a named summit locals can point to without pulling out a trail app. Université de Sherbrooke shares park ownership in the way Bellevue's own site describes it, which is a useful tell: the mountain is civic and campus at once. Club nautique de Sherbrooke keeps water sport on the tourism map when Bellevue has too much ice, too much mud, or simply too many people on the same trail.
That mix is the Sherbrooke habit. You can hear La Tribune argue municipal files in the morning and still plan an evening climb or ski run without leaving town. Destination Sherbrooke sells the same geography outward, but residents already treat Bellevue as infrastructure, not a weekend escape borrowed from somewhere else. The OpenStats City Score puts Sherbrooke at rank 77 of 125 in 2026. The local portrait stays simpler: Estrie desk, Cantons memory, university partnership on the mountain, and working lifts that make winter and summer both feel local.
Drawn from Ville de Sherbrooke, Parc du Mont-Bellevue, Destination Sherbrooke, La Tribune.
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.
La Tribune brands itself as the cooperative media of Estrie, which is how Sherbrooke hears regional news framed.
Parc du Mont-Bellevue notes shared ownership with Université de Sherbrooke while the Ville operates the lifts.
mont J.-S.-Bourque is the named summit inside the Bellevue park system locals can cite without a brochure.
Club nautique de Sherbrooke keeps water sport on the Destination Sherbrooke outing list beside mountain days.
Urban mountain park for ski and bike, with municipal lifts and a campus ownership tie. It is Sherbrooke's everyday outdoors address, not a far-away resort.
The water-club counterweight to Bellevue days. When the mountain is closed or crowded, the nautical map still has a named home.
Campus partner in the Bellevue park story and a standing presence in how the city explains itself. Sherbrooke reads as a university town that kept its mountain.
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