Quebec · Civic arena
Lachute drinking water hardness is 133 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#227 of 343
47% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Lachute 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 Lachute water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Sainte-Marie · vs JolietteHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Lachute 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.
Lachute sits at City Score rank #227 with a standing of 47%, 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 106 places versus 2022 (#121 → #227).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #129 of 327 at 108 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, Lachute carries a City Score standing of 47% (rank #227 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 0 points below the Quebec peer average across 34 ranked cities. Within Quebec, Lachute ranks #18 of 34 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is drinking-water hardness (standing 66%, rank #228 of 343, raw score 133). The weakest observed pillar is seismic hazard (standing 11%, rank #39 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 133 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Lachute. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #227 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #228
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Rank #136
Rank #129
Rank #39
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Lachute 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 Lachute.
Downtown main street between Avenue d'Argenteuil and Avenue Barron. Library conversion works make it the civic conversation piece this
River whose falls named the town and still appear on the municipal arms. It is the geographic shorthand Argenteuil residents share.
Bibliothèque Jean-Marc-Belzile is rising from the former United Church on the Principale works corridor.
Where Lachute sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Lachute still explains itself with water. The Rivière du Nord and the chute that named the town sit in the municipal arms, and Lachutois talk about the falls the way other places talk about a founding mill. Rue Principale is the spine. When crews close it between Avenue d'Argenteuil and Avenue Barron, everyone knows the reason: the old United Church is becoming Bibliothèque Jean-Marc-Belzile, a project big enough to own the summer works list and keep downtown conversation fixed on one block.
Geography keeps the town honest. Lachute calls itself the ville centre of the MRC d'Argenteuil, parked in the Laurentides between Montreal and Gatineau without pretending to be either. Parc Synercité is the industrial boast, sold as a circular-economy park rather than a generic shed row. Sports weekends bring the Tournoi national de hockey midget, the Marathon canadien de ski, and the Tournoi national de soccer de Lachute, so the arena calendar fills before any tourism brochure does. Council nights stream on the city YouTube channel and TVC d'Argenteuil, which is as local as media gets. Industrial growth and library construction share the same small-city contradiction: a place big enough to host national tournaments, still intimate enough that one street closure rearranges the week.
On the OpenStats City Score for 2025, Lachute sits at rank 124 of 343. The hometown line is simpler: Au cœur de ton histoire is the city slogan, the Nord still does the naming, and Principale remains the place you check before you plan a Saturday errand. The slogan works because the falls are still the easiest way to explain the name to a visitor.
Drawn from Ville de Lachute, Ville de Lachute history brand.
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 Lachute 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
OpenStats
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.
Municipal arms still show the chute of the Rivière du Nord that gave Lachute its name.
Bibliothèque Jean-Marc-Belzile is rising from the former United Church on the Principale works corridor.
Parc Synercité is framed by the city as a circular-economy industrial park.
Council sessions are carried on the city's YouTube channel and TVC d'Argenteuil.
Downtown main street between Avenue d'Argenteuil and Avenue Barron. Library conversion works make it the civic conversation piece this season.
New municipal library project regenerating a former church site. Locals track it through Principale closures and council updates.
River whose falls named the town and still appear on the municipal arms. It is the geographic shorthand Argenteuil residents share.
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