Quebec · Civic arena
Val-d'Or drinking water hardness is 249 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#213 of 343
48% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Val-d'Or 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 Val-d'Or water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Gatineau · vs JolietteHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Val-d'Or 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.
Val-d'Or sits at City Score rank #213 with a standing of 48%, 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. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #242 of 327 at 73 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, Val-d'Or carries a City Score standing of 48% (rank #213 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 1 points above the Quebec peer average across 34 ranked cities. Within Quebec, Val-d'Or ranks #15 of 34 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is indoor radon (standing 74%, rank #242 of 327, raw score 72.5). The weakest observed pillar is drinking-water hardness (standing 14%, rank #47 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 249 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Val-d'Or. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #213 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #47
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Rank #242
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Val-d'Or 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 Val-d'Or.
Mining-heritage attraction that anchors Val-d'Or's visitor map. It is the ticket desk for the underground and village story.
Mining village walks with or without a guide. It puts residential heritage streets beside the underground tour.
Cité de l'Or interprets the Ancienne-Mine-Lamaque site as a core visitor experience.
Where Val-d'Or sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Val-d'Or carries Abitibi in its regional self-description and Culture VD on its municipal culture menus. That pairing matters: the city does not separate arts listings from the mining geography that built the place. Ville de Val-d'Or keeps Culture VD beside libraries and spectacles, so a weeknight show and a heritage outing can live in the same civic sentence. Tourisme Val-d'Or pushes the visitor version of that story when the parking lots fill with out-of-town plates and highway dust.
Cité de l'Or is the named attraction that makes the underground concrete. Ancienne-Mine-Lamaque supplies the former mine site, and Village minier de Bourlamaque adds the interpreted mining village with guided or self-guided walks. Residents treat the trio as one outing cluster: go down the Lamaque story, walk Bourlamaque's streets, and let Cité de l'Or hold the ticket desk. Gold is not a metaphor here; it is the address on the heritage map and the reason school groups still book mornings underground.
Modern Val-d'Or still sounds like an Abitibi service centre that kept its mine museums open after the headframes quieted. Culture VD programming keeps evenings local when the highway feels long and the next town feels farther than the map admits. OpenStats has no composite City Score rank for Val-d'Or in the current datapack, which leaves the hometown portrait uncluttered. That is enough identity for a city that never needed a composite rank to know what it sells: Culture VD calendars, Cité de l'Or tickets, Lamaque underground, and Bourlamaque streets under an Abitibi sky.
Drawn from Ville de Val-d'Or, Cité de l'Or, Tourisme Val-d'Or.
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 Val-d'Or 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
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.
Culture VD is the municipal culture brand on Ville de Val-d'Or service menus.
Cité de l'Or interprets the Ancienne-Mine-Lamaque site as a core visitor experience.
Village minier de Bourlamaque offers guided and self-guided heritage walks.
Tourisme Val-d'Or is the destination site that packages the mining-heritage visit for travellers.
Mining-heritage attraction that anchors Val-d'Or's visitor map. It is the ticket desk for the underground and village story.
Former Lamaque mine site interpreted for visitors. Locals name it when explaining where the city's gold story still has a door.
Mining village walks with or without a guide. It puts residential heritage streets beside the underground tour.
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