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OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Baie-Comeau.
City Score #157 (2022) → #168 (2025)
Baie-Comeau sits at City Score rank #168 with a standing of 35%, 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 11 places versus 2022 (#157 → #168).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #122 of 172 (2025); residential mill rate rank #86 of 172 (11.02 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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Documented pro, junior, university, and high-school teams tied to Baie-Comeau.
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.
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.
Connectivity · OpenStats
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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
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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
sports · OpenStats
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Cities with a Canadian Hockey League club ranked by regular-season points percentage (best club wins if several). Rank 1 = highest points %. Built from CHL standings and Wikipedia season pages. Cities without a CHL club are omitted.
8 editions · 2017–2025
Composite · OpenStats
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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
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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
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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
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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
sports · OpenStats
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Cities ranked by weighted count of documented local teams (pro, junior, university, high-school hubs). Rank 1 = deepest documented sports footprint among covered seed cities. Not a claim about on-field success. See sports methodology for weights and gaps.
Single edition · 2025
Only one published edition places Baie-Comeau in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Growth · OpenStats
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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
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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
Hazards · OpenStats
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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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