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Thetford Mines drinking water hardness is 178 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
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#131 of 343
53% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Thetford Mines 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 Thetford Mines from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Thetford Mines.
Thetford Mines sits at City Score rank #131 with a standing of 53%, 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 50 places versus 2022 (#181 → #131).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #7 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #69 of 343 at 228 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #44 of 343 (12.70 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 Thetford Mines.
The museum half of Thetford's mining story, booked alongside King | KB3. It is where the geology and labour narrative get a ticketed door.
Mountain-bike park that updates the city's weekend identity. Thetford's present tense includes climbs, not only shafts.
Musée Minéro pairs with Centre historique de la mine King | KB3 as one heritage visit.
Where Thetford Mines sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Thetford Mines brands itself Stimulante on Ville de Thetford pages, and the short form Thetford shows up as easily as the full legal name. Boulevard Frontenac is the corridor people use to orient errands, while Black Lake remains a sector name that survives in directions long after amalgamation maps went quiet. Flintkote stays in the local landmark inventory as industrial-heritage geography, not as a random English leftover on a forgotten sign.
Mining memory has proper doors. Musée Minéro and the Centre historique de la mine King | KB3 operate as a paired visit: museum for the wider story, King site for the buildings and miner narrative that still define the region. Visitors book both; residents treat the pair as the answer when cousins ask what happened here and where to start walking. The past is interpreted with tickets and guides, not whispered as closed-pit folklore.
Recreation writes the present tense. Parc du Sommet sells mountain-bike days on the municipal map, which is how a former mining city talks about lungs and weekends now. Frontenac errands in the morning and Sommet climbs after work can share one calendar without contradiction. Ville notices and avis pages still remind residents that municipal business and heritage tourism share the same small-city calendar. The OpenStats City Score puts Thetford Mines at rank 68 of 125 in 2026. The hometown combination is blunt and cheerful: Stimulante branding, Frontenac traffic, Black Lake directions, Minéro and KB3 for the underground story, and Sommet dust of a different kind.
Drawn from Ville de Thetford, Musée Minéro, Ville de Thetford Mines.
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 Thetford uses Stimulante as its standing brand adjective on the municipal home.
Musée Minéro pairs with Centre historique de la mine King | KB3 as one heritage visit.
Black Lake remains a sector name people still use for directions inside the city.
Parc du Sommet is the municipal mountain-bike pitch for present-day recreation.
The museum half of Thetford's mining story, booked alongside King | KB3. It is where the geology and labour narrative get a ticketed door.
Historic mine site where buildings and miner stories take the lead. Paired with Musée Minéro for a full day underground-and-above.
Mountain-bike park that updates the city's weekend identity. Thetford's present tense includes climbs, not only shafts.
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