Quebec · Civic arena
Rivière-du-Loup drinking water hardness is 100 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#294 of 343
42% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Rivière-du-Loup 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 Rivière-du-Loup water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Montreal · vs Baie-ComeauHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Rivière-du-Loup 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.
Rivière-du-Loup sits at City Score rank #294 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. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #91 of 327 at 117 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.
In the 2025 City Score edition, Rivière-du-Loup carries a City Score standing of 42% (rank #294 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 5 points below the Quebec peer average across 34 ranked cities. Within Quebec, Rivière-du-Loup ranks #28 of 34 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is drinking-water hardness (standing 88%, rank #303 of 343, raw score 100). The weakest observed pillar is seismic hazard (standing 1%, rank #5 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 100 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Rivière-du-Loup. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #294 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #303
No placement
Rank #129
Rank #91
Rank #5
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Rivière-du-Loup 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
Published residential mill-rate context for Rivière-du-Loup.
The open-air market the city puts on its front page when it wants residents shopping local. Bring a basket and expect the usual summer
The ferry link the city defends in its own menu language. Locals treat the crossing as infrastructure, not a souvenir.
The Marché public is featured on the municipal homepage as a regular shopping stop.
Where Rivière-du-Loup sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Rivière-du-Loup keeps the hyphen and the ferry attitude. On the municipal site, Notre traverse sits beside Portrait under living in town, with the blunt line that the city holds on to its crossing. That is not tourism fluff. It is how locals talk about the water link that still shapes weekend plans, family visits, and regional errands across the Lower St. Lawrence. Downtown, the Hôtel de ville patrimonial anchors civic life, while boulevard de l'Hôtel-de-Ville shows up whenever pavement crews, karting weekends, or event traffic take over the news brief.
Summer here runs through programmation estivale: free outdoor shows, family Tuesdays, open-air cinema, discovery midday music, and SkateFest on the recreation calendar. The Marché public gets its own homepage push, the kind of basket-and-stall habit that needs no translation for residents who already know which morning feels busiest. Café créatif joins the cultural circuit when exhibitions fill the warmer months. Even the aéroport weather widget on the city services list reminds you this is a stop with planes and ferries in the same mental map, watched by the same Radio-Canada Bas-Saint-Laurent desk that covers the shore.
The hometown character is practical and a little stubborn. Keep the traverse, shop the Marché public, and watch boulevard de l'Hôtel-de-Ville when the city digs it up again. Rivière-du-Loup reads as a ferry-minded hub that still puts free summer nights on the calendar and expects you to know the Hôtel de ville patrimonial without a map pin or a travel-writer adjective. That ferry-first framing is what keeps Rivière-du-Loup from swapping cleanly with any other Bas-Saint-Laurent stop.
Drawn from Ville de Rivière-du-Loup, Radio-Canada Bas-Saint-Laurent.
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 Rivière-du-Loup 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
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
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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
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
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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.
Ville de Rivière-du-Loup keeps a Notre traverse menu item that insists the ferry link matters.
The Marché public is featured on the municipal homepage as a regular shopping stop.
Boulevard de l'Hôtel-de-Ville appears in municipal roadwork and traffic notices.
SkateFest sits on the city recreation news list beside free summer programmation estivale.
The open-air market the city puts on its front page when it wants residents shopping local. Bring a basket and expect the usual summer rhythm.
Heritage city hall on the municipal living-in list. It is the civic landmark that pairs with boulevard de l'Hôtel-de-Ville talk.
The ferry link the city defends in its own menu language. Locals treat the crossing as infrastructure, not a souvenir.
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