Quebec · Civic arena
Sept-Îles drinking water hardness is 209 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#244 of 343
46% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Sept-Îles 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 Sept-Îles water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Alma · vs GranbyHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Sept-Îles 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.
Sept-Îles sits at City Score rank #244 with a standing of 46%, 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. Rising 10 places versus 2022 (#254 → #244).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #239 of 327 at 75 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.
On the latest OpenStats pass, Sept-Îles carries a City Score standing of 46% (rank #244 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 1 points below the Quebec peer average across 34 ranked cities. Within Quebec, Sept-Îles ranks #21 of 34 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is indoor radon (standing 73%, rank #239 of 327, raw score 74.9). The weakest observed pillar is population growth (standing 16%, rank #289 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 209 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Sept-Îles. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #244 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #97
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Rank #239
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Sept-Îles 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 Sept-Îles.
A reconstructed fur-trading post on the waterfront, paired with Musée de la Côte-Nord bookings. It is the shore stop that makes the bay
An outdoor recreation destination on the tourism home for days when you want trails and shoreline without a boat ticket.
Hop la Ville! is the municipal leisure and culture brand residents see on programming notices.
Where Sept-Îles sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Sept-Îles is a Côte-Nord hub that orients by Baie de Sept-Îles and the Archipel des Sept-Îles before it orients by inland streets. Septilien and Septilienne show up in municipal civic language, and tourism pages treat the seven-island archipelago as everyday geography rather than a day-trip novelty. The Port of Sept-Îles keeps Relance and Pointe-Noire terminals in the economic conversation, so mineral shipping is not background colour. It is how the bay earns its keep while Hop la Ville! programs fill leisure calendars.
Waterfront culture pairs with port talk. Vieux-Poste de Sept-Îles sits on the shore as a reconstructed fur-trading post, and Musée de la Côte-Nord shares the booking orbit for school groups and visitors. Île Grande Basque carries municipal camping listings for island weekends, while Station Gallix covers outdoor recreation farther out when the bay feels too busy. Uashat sits adjacent in tourism geography, so regional maps include the Innu community as neighbour, not footnote, which matters for how Septiliens describe the coast.
Civic life runs along boulevard Laure. Temporary city hall notices repeat Place Sept-Îles at Smith and Laure, and aqueduct drainage files name sectors like Jacques-Cartier when pipes get work. Errands, port shifts, and island plans share one weekly map. Sept-Îles sells itself as the Côte-Nord bay town where archipelago excursions, mineral terminals, and boulevard Laure services stay in the same sentence. On calm evenings, Septiliens still measure distance in bay crossings toward Île Grande Basque rather than highway exits. Port notices and Hop la Ville listings share the same civic week.
Drawn from Ville de Sept-Îles, Tourisme Sept-Îles, Port of Sept-Îles.
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 Sept-Îles 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
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.
The Port of Sept-Îles names Relance and Pointe-Noire terminals, so shipping talk stays geographically specific.
Hop la Ville! is the municipal leisure and culture brand residents see on programming notices.
Boulevard Laure and Place Sept-Îles have carried temporary city-hall addresses while civic offices shuffle.
Île Grande Basque is listed for municipal camping inside the archipelago outing menu.
A reconstructed fur-trading post on the waterfront, paired with Musée de la Côte-Nord bookings. It is the shore stop that makes the bay feel historic without needing a museum-only day.
The seven islands that give the city its name and close the bay. Excursions treat the archipelago as the main outdoor product, not a distant park.
An outdoor recreation destination on the tourism home for days when you want trails and shoreline without a boat ticket.
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