Quebec · Civic arena
Saint-Hyacinthe drinking water hardness is 94 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#166 of 343
50% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Saint-Hyacinthe 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 Saint-Hyacinthe water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Rouyn-Noranda · vs VictoriavilleHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Saint-Hyacinthe 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.
Saint-Hyacinthe sits at City Score rank #166 with a standing of 50%, 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 33 places versus 2022 (#133 → #166).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #212 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, Saint-Hyacinthe carries a City Score standing of 50% (rank #166 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 3 points above the Quebec peer average across 34 ranked cities. Within Quebec, Saint-Hyacinthe ranks #11 of 34 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is drinking-water hardness (standing 90%, rank #309 of 343, raw score 94). The weakest observed pillar is seismic hazard (standing 17%, rank #60 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 94 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Saint-Hyacinthe. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #166 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #309
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Rank #67
Rank #212
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Saint-Hyacinthe 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 Saint-Hyacinthe.
Named recreation park on the municipal installations list. A default family outing without needing tourism copy.
Municipal cultural centre brand tied to the Pôle culturel maskoutain leisure menu.
Expo agricole is the summer fair that puts the city into fair mode.
Where Saint-Hyacinthe sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Saint-Hyacinthe is a maskoutain city that rearranges itself around Expo agricole the way other towns rearrange around hockey playoffs. When fair season nears, municipal notices talk about dressing the city for the agricultural show, and Le Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe keeps producer stories in the same local register. Parc Les Salines is the named recreation park people list without a brochure, and summer heat notices still point to piscine Laurier and piscine Christ-Roi for outdoor swimming hours when watering bans tighten.
Culture has a maskoutain label too. The Pôle culturel maskoutain and Centre culturel Humania Assurance sit on leisure menus beside Beaux Mardis de Casimir, the municipal summer series that keeps Tuesday nights booked. Saint-Hyacinthe Technopole handles economic development and tourism promotion, while the Centre de Congrès de Saint-Hyacinthe keeps the city on the congress map outside Montreal and Quebec City. Transit chatter in the Courrier still names corridors like Girouard Ouest when stops move, so mobility news stays street-level.
Day to day, Maskoutains live between fairgrounds, congress halls, and neighbourhood pools. Water-restriction weeks and heat-wave pool hours share the homepage with cultural-centre bookings and Technopole announcements. Expo agricole is not only an event; it is a civic mood that rewrites traffic and volunteer lists for a stretch of summer. Saint-Hyacinthe sells itself as the maskoutain hub where the fair, Technopole shorthand, and Parc Les Salines remain the place names you give a visitor who asks how the week actually runs Maskoutain weekends still bounce between Expo agricole prep, Humania bookings, and a swim at piscine Laurier when the Courrier is quiet.
Drawn from Ville de Saint-Hyacinthe, Le Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe.
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 Saint-Hyacinthe 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.
Maskoutain is the demonym used on municipal cultural pages and in Courrier coverage.
Expo agricole is the summer fair that puts the city into fair mode.
Saint-Hyacinthe Technopole is the economic development and tourism promotion arm.
Beaux Mardis de Casimir is a municipal summer event series named on the city home.
Named recreation park on the municipal installations list. A default family outing without needing tourism copy.
Large congress and exhibition centre that keeps the city on regional event calendars beyond Montreal.
Municipal cultural centre brand tied to the Pôle culturel maskoutain leisure menu.
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