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OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Thetford Mines.

How Thetford Mines scores

Thetford Mines sits at City Score rank #139 with a standing of 43%, from 8 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: building permit value rank #98 of 172 (2025); indoor radon rank #49 of 117 at 120 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #51 of 172 (12.70 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

#139
City Score rank
43%
City Score

Local readings for Thetford Mines

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Local sports in Thetford Mines

Documented pro, junior, university, and high-school teams tied to Thetford Mines.

Hometown notes

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Earlier years: 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023

Thetford Mines in brief

Thetford Mines brands itself Stimulante on Ville de Thetford pages, and the short form Thetford shows up as easily as the full legal name. Boulevard Frontenac is the corridor people use to orient errands, while Black Lake remains a sector name that survives in directions long after amalgamation maps went quiet. Flintkote stays in the local landmark inventory as industrial-heritage geography, not as a random English leftover on a forgotten sign.

Mining memory has proper doors. Musée Minéro and the Centre historique de la mine King | KB3 operate as a paired visit: museum for the wider story, King site for the buildings and miner narrative that still define the region. Visitors book both; residents treat the pair as the answer when cousins ask what happened here and where to start walking. The past is interpreted with tickets and guides, not whispered as closed-pit folklore.

Recreation writes the present tense. Parc du Sommet sells mountain-bike days on the municipal map, which is how a former mining city talks about lungs and weekends now. Frontenac errands in the morning and Sommet climbs after work can share one calendar without contradiction. Ville notices and avis pages still remind residents that municipal business and heritage tourism share the same small-city calendar. The OpenStats City Score puts Thetford Mines at rank 68 of 125 in 2026. The hometown combination is blunt and cheerful: Stimulante branding, Frontenac traffic, Black Lake directions, Minéro and KB3 for the underground story, and Sommet dust of a different kind.

Drawn from Ville de Thetford, Musée Minéro, Ville de Thetford Mines.

City Score over time

City Score from 2016–2025 across eight open-data pillars. Individual study placements are listed in the panels below.

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Rankings for Thetford Mines

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

OpenStats Broadband Download Speeds

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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

#157
Latest · 2025 · of 172
Score 41.5

Construction · OpenStats

OpenStats Building Permit Value

OpenStats

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

#98
Latest · 2025 · of 172
Score 162913201

Composite · OpenStats

OpenStats City Score

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). 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

#139
Latest · 2025 · of 172
Score 0.43

Safety · OpenStats

OpenStats Crime Severity Index

OpenStats

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

#151
Latest · 2025 · of 172
Score 54.97

Water · OpenStats

OpenStats Drinking Water Hardness

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

#75
Latest · 2025 · of 172
Score 178

Health · OpenStats

OpenStats Highest Indoor Radon

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

#49
Latest · 2025 · of 117
Score 119.7

sports · OpenStats

OpenStats Local Sports Depth

OpenStats

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

#74
Published · 2025 · of 172
Score 4

Only one published edition places Thetford Mines in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.

Original source · Full edition

Growth · OpenStats

OpenStats Population Growth

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

#102
Latest · 2025 · of 172
Score 0.009442028177391175

Property tax · OpenStats

OpenStats Residential Mill Rates

OpenStats

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

#51
Latest · 2025 · of 172
Score 12.700262707153708

Hazards · OpenStats

OpenStats Seismic Hazard (PGA)

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

#54
Latest · 2025 · of 172
Score 0.094

Worth knowing in Thetford Mines

Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.

  • Ville de Thetford uses Stimulante as its standing brand adjective on the municipal home.

    Ville de Thetford

  • Musée Minéro pairs with Centre historique de la mine King | KB3 as one heritage visit.

    Musée Minéro

  • Black Lake remains a sector name people still use for directions inside the city.

    Ville de Thetford

  • Parc du Sommet is the municipal mountain-bike pitch for present-day recreation.

    Ville de Thetford

Places to see

Musée Minéro

The museum half of Thetford's mining story, booked alongside King | KB3. It is where the geology and labour narrative get a ticketed door.

Parc du Sommet

Mountain-bike park that updates the city's weekend identity. Thetford's present tense includes climbs, not only shafts.

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