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Victoriaville drinking water hardness is 276 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
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#149 of 343
52% City Score XP
7/8 pillars on the board
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Victoriaville 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 Victoriaville from municipal and provincial water records. Hardness and grade are published readings.
Drinking water first, then permits, tax, internet, radon, and hazards for Victoriaville.
Victoriaville sits at City Score rank #149 with a standing of 52%, 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 #129 of 343 (2025); indoor radon rank #219 of 343 at 126 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #100 of 343 (11.56 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 Victoriaville.
Wooded municipal park that doubles as an artists-in-residence site. Victo puts culture under the trees on purpose.
May festival of musique actuelle that puts Victoriaville on the experimental-music map. Even non-attendees know the week by acronym.
Parc du Boisé-des-Frères-du-Sacré-Coeur hosts artists-in-residence on the city calendar.
Where Victoriaville sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Victoriaville answers to Victo on its own website. Quoi faire à Victo is the what's-on brand, and MonDossier Victo is the portal where permits and payments land. That short form is not slang whispered at the rink; it is municipal speech printed on menus and login screens. Bois-Francs framing still wraps the regional tourism conversation around the city, especially when festival weeks pull visitors down rue Notre-Dame Est and fill cafe tables with out-of-town accents. Residents say Victo the same way the website does, without waiting for a tourism brochure to grant permission.
Park and heritage listings stay stubbornly specific. Parc du Boisé-des-Frères-du-Sacré-Coeur hosts artists-in-residence, which is a cheerful way to say the woods have a programming budget. Cimetière St-Christophe-d'Arthabaska appears on cultural visit lists, and Arthabaska itself remains a place name people use for the old sector and Mont-Arthabaska outings. Victo does not flatten its map into one anonymous suburb label or pretend the sectors never had names.
FIMAV, the Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville, is the May spike that puts experimental music on the civic calendar. Locals may not attend every set, but they know the acronym the way other towns know a fair week, and they know traffic will shift near the festival addresses. MonDossier Victo logins and Quoi faire listings keep the short name in daily administrative muscle memory. The OpenStats City Score puts Victoriaville at rank 12 of 125 in 2026. Rank or not, the hometown tell is Victo on the tongue, Quoi faire posters, Boisé residencies, Arthabaska cemetery walks, and FIMAV week when the Bois-Francs feel louder than usual.
Drawn from Ville de Victoriaville, FIMAV.
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.
Municipal pages lead with Quoi faire à Victo and MonDossier Victo, so the short form is official.
Parc du Boisé-des-Frères-du-Sacré-Coeur hosts artists-in-residence on the city calendar.
Cimetière St-Christophe-d'Arthabaska appears as a cultural visit listing, not only a burial ground.
FIMAV stages contemporary music in Victoriaville each May and keeps a rue Notre-Dame Est contact address.
Wooded municipal park that doubles as an artists-in-residence site. Victo puts culture under the trees on purpose.
Heritage cemetery on the cultural visit list in the Arthabaska sector. History walks start with a proper noun here.
May festival of musique actuelle that puts Victoriaville on the experimental-music map. Even non-attendees know the week by acronym.
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