Quebec · Civic arena
Baie-Comeau drinking water hardness is 189 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#299 of 343
42% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Baie-Comeau packs 5 of eight open-data pillars into its composite standing. Tap a rival below to see how the hometown stacks up head-to-head.
Rivalries on deck
Hardness, pH, and lead from municipal reports on the OpenStats water atlas. This page uses a regional estimate — open the water atlas for method notes.
Full Baie-Comeau water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Rivière-du-Loup · vs MontrealHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Baie-Comeau from municipal and provincial water records. Open the animated map for the full watershed-to-tap diagram — no nested topic navigation here.
Permits, tax, internet, radon, hazards, drinking water, and sports rankings where a CHL hometown applies.
Baie-Comeau sits at City Score rank #299 with a standing of 42%, from 5 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 12 places versus 2022 (#287 → #299).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #238 of 327 at 75 Bq/m³ survey mean. Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
Against the national corpus, Baie-Comeau carries a City Score standing of 42% (rank #299 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 5 points below the Quebec peer average across 34 ranked cities. Within Quebec, Baie-Comeau ranks #29 of 34 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is indoor radon (standing 73%, rank #238 of 327, raw score 74.9). The weakest observed pillar is population growth (standing 14%, rank #297 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 189 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Baie-Comeau. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #299 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #136
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Rank #195
Rank #238
Rank #59
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Baie-Comeau pillar standing
Eight equal-weight City Score pillars, 2025 panel year.
Source: OpenStats composite / study editions
City Score standing trend
Standing percentage by panel year (higher is better).
Years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
Source: OpenStats composite timeseries
Achievements
Published residential mill-rate context for Baie-Comeau.
Heritage church that still opens for scheduled visits. A Côte-Nord landmark locals use when showing the older town face.
Library project that has been moving through visible construction updates on the city news feed.
Centre Henri-Desjardins anchors sports life in secteur Mingan.
Where Baie-Comeau sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Baie-Comeau is the ville-centre of Manicouagan, the Côte-Nord service city people mean when they say they are coming into town from the highway or the plants. City hall sits on avenue Marquette. Tourism greeting has settled onto boulevard Laflèche. Between those addresses, residents still navigate by sector names like secteur Mingan, where Centre Henri-Desjardins keeps ice and community rooms busy through long winters. Choisir Baie-Comeau is the city's own phrase for arguing that people should stay.
Industry and civic builds share the same news cycle. Parc éco-industriel Jean-Noël-Tessier is how council talks about the next industrial chapter, while Bibliothèque Alice-Lane construction updates remind everyone that downtown culture still needs a finished roof. Winter life leans on Centre sportif Alcoa and Henri-Desjardins ice sheets. Summer calendars add quieter stops: visits to Église Sainte-Amélie, and Société historique de la Côte-Nord exhibitions that keep wartime letters and local memory in public rooms instead of locked archives.
Regional pride stretches inland to barrage Daniel-Johnson and outward through Cégep de Baie-Comeau classrooms that Manicouagan recruitment pages treat as part of the stay-and-study pitch. On the Côte-Nord, Baie-Comeau is where services, rink schedules, heritage church visits, and industrial parcels sit in the same conversation. Name secteur Mingan, Sainte-Amélie, and Jean-Noël-Tessier in one week and you are already speaking local. Bibliothèque Alice-Lane updates and Centre Henri-Desjardins ice boards are the practical weather of civic life, while Église Sainte-Amélie visits remind visitors that Manicouagan heritage is not only industrial. Avenue Marquette and boulevard Laflèche keep administration and tourism desks on named corridors locals actually use.
Drawn from Ville de Baie-Comeau, Tourisme Côte-Nord, Manicouagan.ca.
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.
Safety · OpenStats
Statistics Canada does not publish a police-service Crime Severity Index that OpenStats can match to Baie-Comeau without copying a province, CMA, or another city. The safety pillar scores at median standing (50%) on City Score, the same rule used for other missing pillars.
Connectivity · OpenStats
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Cities ranked by household-weighted maximum advertised download (Mbps) from ISED National Broadband Data hex ISP rows, with hex-to-city assignment by population-weighted gravity. The headline 2025 score is the dwelling-weighted mean of per-hex technology ceilings (fibre and cable at 1 Gbps, DSL lower). Household-weighted 50/10 availability (%) is stored on atlas rows as avail_5010_pct. Earlier panel years backcast along a national speed curve with city-specific fiber and availability paths.
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). Crime severity uses StatCan police-service CSI only (Tables 35-10-0026-01 and 35-10-0063-01); cities without a police-service match take median standing on the safety pillar. Growth uses StatCan CSD estimates; construction uses verified municipal building-permit value per resident (population field on each city record, 2021 Census vintage); 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
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
Hazards · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by NRCan peak ground acceleration (higher = stronger shaking hazard). Rank 1 is highest PGA. The seismic model is multi-year; values are carried across the City Score panel and flagged as static until NRCan publishes a new generation.
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.
Regional tourism calls Baie-Comeau the ville-centre of Manicouagan on the Côte-Nord.
Centre Henri-Desjardins anchors sports life in secteur Mingan.
Parc éco-industriel Jean-Noël-Tessier is a named industrial future file on the city homepage.
Église Sainte-Amélie appears on the municipal events calendar as a visit destination.
Heritage church that still opens for scheduled visits. A Côte-Nord landmark locals use when showing the older town face.
Ice and community rooms in secteur Mingan. One of the addresses that define winter schedules in Baie-Comeau.
Library project that has been moving through visible construction updates on the city news feed.
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