Quebec · Civic arena
Cowansville drinking water hardness is 96 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#25 of 343
61% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Cowansville 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.
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 Cowansville water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Trois-Rivieres · vs DrummondvilleHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Cowansville 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.
Cowansville sits at City Score rank #25 with a standing of 61%, 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. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #211 of 327 at 92 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.
Among Canadian cities on the hub, Cowansville carries a City Score standing of 61% (rank #25 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 14 points above the Quebec peer average across 34 ranked cities. Within Quebec, Cowansville ranks #1 of 34 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is drinking-water hardness (standing 89%, rank #306 of 343, raw score 96). The weakest observed pillar is seismic hazard (standing 20%, rank #70 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 96 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Cowansville. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #25 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #306
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Rank #89
Rank #211
Rank #70
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Cowansville 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 Cowansville.
Municipal shoreline park on Lac Davignon with beach, trails, and family courts. Cowansvillois treat chemin de la Plage as the summer
Civic square address for city hall, the formal front door of Brome-Missisquoi's main town.
Centre de la nature sits on Lac Davignon at 225, chemin de la Plage.
Where Cowansville sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Cowansville is the main town Cowansvillois mean when they talk about Brome-Missisquoi needing a real centre. The MRC calls it the region's grand pôle socio-économique, and Place Municipale still anchors the civic map with city hall in plain sight. The city prefers the phrase ville dynamique à dimension humaine: big enough for services, small enough that chemin de la Plage still leads to a beach people treat as their own backyard rather than a tourist invention.
Lac Davignon is the weekend argument that settles most family debates. Centre de la nature puts splash pads, trails, courts, and boat rentals on the same shoreline, and summer calendars pair Cinéma en plein air with the Minimarché estival when the evenings stay warm. Farther into the green belt, Parc nature Jacques-Bonnette carries a quieter biodiversity story, including a wood-turtle partnership locals hear about in municipal bulletins instead of travel magazines.
Buy-local language is unusually specific here. Dollars Cowansville, Fait à Cowansville, and the Chambre de Commerce de Brome-Missisquoi keep commerce named instead of generic. The 150e anniversaire de Cowansville has been riding the homepage as a civic countdown. For a Brome-Missisquoi town on the English-French seam, Cowansville still introduces itself first as a lake-and-MRC hub that knows its demonym and its beach road. On a July evening the Minimarché estival and Centre de la nature crowd make Lac Davignon feel like the town square, and Dollars Cowansville receipts keep the buy-local habit concrete. Place Municipale remains the formal front door when the beach crowd heads back uphill.
Drawn from Ville de Cowansville, MRC Brome-Missisquoi, Tourisme Brome-Missisquoi.
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 Cowansville 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
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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). 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
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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
Health · OpenStats
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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
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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
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.
Residents are Cowansvillois and Cowansvilloises on the MRC municipal page.
Centre de la nature sits on Lac Davignon at 225, chemin de la Plage.
Dollars Cowansville is a named local-currency program on the city site.
The city has been marking its 150e anniversaire on the homepage.
Municipal shoreline park on Lac Davignon with beach, trails, and family courts. Cowansvillois treat chemin de la Plage as the summer default.
Quieter nature park tied to biodiversity work, including wood-turtle habitat messaging in city materials.
Civic square address for city hall, the formal front door of Brome-Missisquoi's main town.
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