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Val-d'Or drinking water hardness is 249 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
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#161 of 343
51% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Val-d'Or 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 Val-d'Or from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Val-d'Or.
Val-d'Or sits at City Score rank #161 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. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #340 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #317 of 343 at 49 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #258 of 343 (8.34 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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Arena rank #161 of 343
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Rank #340
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Rank #258
Achievements
Published residential mill-rate context for Val-d'Or.
Mining-heritage attraction that anchors Val-d'Or's visitor map. It is the ticket desk for the underground and village story.
Mining village walks with or without a guide. It puts residential heritage streets beside the underground tour.
Cité de l'Or interprets the Ancienne-Mine-Lamaque site as a core visitor experience.
Where Val-d'Or sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Val-d'Or carries Abitibi in its regional self-description and Culture VD on its municipal culture menus. That pairing matters: the city does not separate arts listings from the mining geography that built the place. Ville de Val-d'Or keeps Culture VD beside libraries and spectacles, so a weeknight show and a heritage outing can live in the same civic sentence. Tourisme Val-d'Or pushes the visitor version of that story when the parking lots fill with out-of-town plates and highway dust.
Cité de l'Or is the named attraction that makes the underground concrete. Ancienne-Mine-Lamaque supplies the former mine site, and Village minier de Bourlamaque adds the interpreted mining village with guided or self-guided walks. Residents treat the trio as one outing cluster: go down the Lamaque story, walk Bourlamaque's streets, and let Cité de l'Or hold the ticket desk. Gold is not a metaphor here; it is the address on the heritage map and the reason school groups still book mornings underground.
Modern Val-d'Or still sounds like an Abitibi service centre that kept its mine museums open after the headframes quieted. Culture VD programming keeps evenings local when the highway feels long and the next town feels farther than the map admits. OpenStats has no composite City Score rank for Val-d'Or in the current datapack, which leaves the hometown portrait uncluttered. That is enough identity for a city that never needed a composite rank to know what it sells: Culture VD calendars, Cité de l'Or tickets, Lamaque underground, and Bourlamaque streets under an Abitibi sky.
Drawn from Ville de Val-d'Or, Cité de l'Or, Tourisme Val-d'Or.
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.
Culture VD is the municipal culture brand on Ville de Val-d'Or service menus.
Cité de l'Or interprets the Ancienne-Mine-Lamaque site as a core visitor experience.
Village minier de Bourlamaque offers guided and self-guided heritage walks.
Tourisme Val-d'Or is the destination site that packages the mining-heritage visit for travellers.
Mining-heritage attraction that anchors Val-d'Or's visitor map. It is the ticket desk for the underground and village story.
Former Lamaque mine site interpreted for visitors. Locals name it when explaining where the city's gold story still has a door.
Mining village walks with or without a guide. It puts residential heritage streets beside the underground tour.
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