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Thetford Mines drinking water hardness is 178 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#177 of 343
50% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Thetford Mines 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.
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 Thetford Mines 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.
Thetford Mines sits at City Score rank #177 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. Rising 48 places versus 2022 (#225 → #177).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #122 of 327 at 111 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, Thetford Mines carries a City Score standing of 50% (rank #177 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 3 points above the Quebec peer average across 34 ranked cities. Within Quebec, Thetford Mines ranks #12 of 34 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is broadband download (ISED seed tier) (standing 80%, rank #69 of 343, raw score 1000). The weakest observed pillar is seismic hazard (standing 25%, rank #87 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 178 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Thetford Mines. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
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Arena rank #177 of 343
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Pillar avg · hardness #152
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Thetford Mines 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 Thetford Mines.
The museum half of Thetford's mining story, booked alongside King | KB3. It is where the geology and labour narrative get a ticketed door.
Mountain-bike park that updates the city's weekend identity. Thetford's present tense includes climbs, not only shafts.
Musée Minéro pairs with Centre historique de la mine King | KB3 as one heritage visit.
Where Thetford Mines sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
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 55 of 343 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 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 Thetford Mines 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
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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
Health · OpenStats
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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
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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 Thetford uses Stimulante as its standing brand adjective on the municipal home.
Musée Minéro pairs with Centre historique de la mine King | KB3 as one heritage visit.
Black Lake remains a sector name people still use for directions inside the city.
Parc du Sommet is the municipal mountain-bike pitch for present-day recreation.
The museum half of Thetford's mining story, booked alongside King | KB3. It is where the geology and labour narrative get a ticketed door.
Historic mine site where buildings and miner stories take the lead. Paired with Musée Minéro for a full day underground-and-above.
Mountain-bike park that updates the city's weekend identity. Thetford's present tense includes climbs, not only shafts.
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