Quebec · Civic arena
Sorel-Tracy drinking water hardness is 86 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#156 of 343
51% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Sorel-Tracy 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.
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Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Sorel-Tracy 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.
Sorel-Tracy sits at City Score rank #156 with a standing of 51%, 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 26 places versus 2022 (#182 → #156).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #214 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.
In the 2025 City Score edition, Sorel-Tracy carries a City Score standing of 51% (rank #156 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 4 points above the Quebec peer average across 34 ranked cities. Within Quebec, Sorel-Tracy ranks #8 of 34 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is drinking-water hardness (standing 94%, rank #321 of 343, raw score 86). The weakest observed pillar is seismic hazard (standing 17%, rank #58 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 86 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Sorel-Tracy. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #156 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #321
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Rank #86
Rank #214
Rank #58
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Sorel-Tracy 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 Sorel-Tracy.
The Saint-Laurent face of town at 5 rue St-Pierre. When someone says they are going to look at the fleuve, this is the named park they mean.
The regional park step-up when neighbourhood green space is not enough. It keeps Sorel-Tracy's outing list bigger than a single quay.
Municipal service menus still pair the city with Pierre-De Saurel regional framing.
Where Sorel-Tracy sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Sorel-Tracy orients by two waters at once. The fleuve Saint-Laurent is the big face of town, and Parc Regard-sur-le-Fleuve at 5 rue St-Pierre is the postcard edge where that face becomes a park bench. Municipal services still speak Pierre-De Saurel when they point to the wider region, so the city does not pretend it floats alone. Hotel de ville business keeps rue Charlotte in the civic address book while the shoreline does the emotional work of explaining where you are.
Turn inland along the rivière Richelieu and the park list changes names but not importance. Parc de la Maison des gouverneurs sits on chemin des Patriotes with the Jardins de la Baronne as the garden tell. Parc des Bateaux Blancs hugs the Richelieu near pont Turcotte, and Quai Catherine-Legardeur keeps a named quay in the waterfront circuit. Parc régional des Grèves stretches the outing map when a neighbourhood park feels too small. Maison des gouverneurs also shows up as a hall-rental listing, which is how heritage buildings earn their keep in a working river city.
SorelTracy Magazine covers the local desk when you want community news without borrowing a Montreal lede. Sports, culture, and municipal notices travel under that hometown masthead for readers who already know rue Charlotte from the inside. The OpenStats City Score puts Sorel-Tracy at rank 161 of 343 in 2026, a strong composite standing for a mid-size river city. The hometown portrait stays specific: Regard-sur-le-Fleuve for the Saint-Laurent, chemin des Patriotes parks for the Richelieu, and Pierre-De Saurel as the regional name that still rides municipal pages.
Drawn from Ville de Sorel-Tracy, SorelTracy Magazine.
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 Sorel-Tracy 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
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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.
Parc Regard-sur-le-Fleuve sits at 5 rue St-Pierre facing the fleuve Saint-Laurent.
Municipal service menus still pair the city with Pierre-De Saurel regional framing.
Parc des Bateaux Blancs is the Richelieu park people place beside pont Turcotte.
SorelTracy Magazine is the hometown magazine outlet for local culture and news.
The Saint-Laurent face of town at 5 rue St-Pierre. When someone says they are going to look at the fleuve, this is the named park they mean.
Richelieu-side park on chemin des Patriotes with Jardins de la Baronne. Heritage gardens and a municipal venue share one address cluster.
The regional park step-up when neighbourhood green space is not enough. It keeps Sorel-Tracy's outing list bigger than a single quay.
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