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OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Rouyn-Noranda.
City Score #135 (2022) → #149 (2025)
Rouyn-Noranda sits at City Score rank #149 with a standing of 41%, 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 14 places versus 2022 (#135 → #149).
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #82 of 172 (2025); residential mill rate rank #52 of 172 (12.45 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 Rouyn-Noranda.
Published residential mill-rate context for Rouyn-Noranda.
The botanical park locals name without the full formal title. It is a recreation landmark on the city list, not a tourist invention.
The pedestrian downtown quarter on the municipal discover pages. It is where centre-ville walking plans start.
Parc botanique À fleur d'eau and Parc Mouska appear on the municipal recreation list.
Where Rouyn-Noranda sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Rouyn-Noranda is marking its 100e in 2026, and the municipal site puts that anniversary beside everyday services without going soft. In the Abitibi-Témiscamingue frame, this is a resource town that also names its parks out loud. Parc botanique À fleur d'eau and Parc Mouska sit on the recreation list; Parc régional des collines Kekeko shows up as the hills project people already shorten to Kekeko when they mean trails outside the grid. Downtown, the Quartier centre piétonnier is the pedestrian core on the discover menu, the place where centre-ville walking plans and summer programming start.
Environment pages keep qualité de l'air as an active civic file, the kind of dossier residents check the way other cities check flood dials. Ressources naturelles et territoire still shapes business menus around forestry and mineral-surface transit on municipal roads. AccèsCité is the leisure registration brand you hear when someone signs up for a class or a pool session. Summer programming leans toward outdoor cinema, public pianos, and living readings as much as industrial talk, which is how the 100e year stays cheerful without pretending the hard files disappeared.
The hometown read mixes a centennial year with practical Abitibi habits. Walk the quartier centre piétonnier, name À fleur d'eau or Kekeko without hesitation, and know that air quality is not an abstract slogan here. Rouyn-Noranda sounds like itself when the 100e banners and the environment brief share the same front door, and when park names beat generic northern filler every time. That mix of centennial cheer and air-quality vigilance is what keeps Rouyn-Noranda from reading like a generic mining-town blurb.
Drawn from Ville de Rouyn-Noranda, Radio-Canada Abitibi-Témiscamingue.
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 Rouyn-Noranda 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.
Ville de Rouyn-Noranda is promoting a 100e anniversary year through 2026.
Parc botanique À fleur d'eau and Parc Mouska appear on the municipal recreation list.
Municipal environment pages keep an active qualité de l'air dossier for residents.
The Quartier centre piétonnier is named on the city discover menu as the pedestrian downtown.
The botanical park locals name without the full formal title. It is a recreation landmark on the city list, not a tourist invention.
Hills country the city already brands as Kekeko. Recreation talk treats it as Rouyn-Noranda outdoor ground.
The pedestrian downtown quarter on the municipal discover pages. It is where centre-ville walking plans start.
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