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Victoriaville drinking water hardness is 276 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#161 of 343
51% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Victoriaville 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 Victoriaville water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Rouyn-Noranda · vs Saint-HyacintheHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Victoriaville 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.
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Victoriaville sits at City Score rank #161 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. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #308 of 327 at 41 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, Victoriaville carries a City Score standing of 51% (rank #161 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 4 points above the Quebec peer average across 34 ranked cities. Within Quebec, Victoriaville ranks #9 of 34 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is indoor radon (standing 94%, rank #308 of 327, raw score 40.6). The weakest observed pillar is drinking-water hardness (standing 4%, rank #13 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 276 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Victoriaville. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #161 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #13
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Rank #70
Rank #308
Rank #83
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Victoriaville 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 Victoriaville.
Wooded municipal park that doubles as an artists-in-residence site. Victo puts culture under the trees on purpose.
May festival of musique actuelle that puts Victoriaville on the experimental-music map. Even non-attendees know the week by acronym.
Parc du Boisé-des-Frères-du-Sacré-Coeur hosts artists-in-residence on the city calendar.
Where Victoriaville sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Victoriaville answers to Victo on its own website. Quoi faire à Victo is the what's-on brand, and MonDossier Victo is the portal where permits and payments land. That short form is not slang whispered at the rink; it is municipal speech printed on menus and login screens. Bois-Francs framing still wraps the regional tourism conversation around the city, especially when festival weeks pull visitors down rue Notre-Dame Est and fill cafe tables with out-of-town accents. Residents say Victo the same way the website does, without waiting for a tourism brochure to grant permission.
Park and heritage listings stay stubbornly specific. Parc du Boisé-des-Frères-du-Sacré-Coeur hosts artists-in-residence, which is a cheerful way to say the woods have a programming budget. Cimetière St-Christophe-d'Arthabaska appears on cultural visit lists, and Arthabaska itself remains a place name people use for the old sector and Mont-Arthabaska outings. Victo does not flatten its map into one anonymous suburb label or pretend the sectors never had names.
FIMAV, the Festival international de musique actuelle de Victoriaville, is the May spike that puts experimental music on the civic calendar. Locals may not attend every set, but they know the acronym the way other towns know a fair week, and they know traffic will shift near the festival addresses. MonDossier Victo logins and Quoi faire listings keep the short name in daily administrative muscle memory. The OpenStats City Score puts Victoriaville at rank 83 of 343 in 2026. Rank or not, the hometown tell is Victo on the tongue, Quoi faire posters, Boisé residencies, Arthabaska cemetery walks, and FIMAV week when the Bois-Francs feel louder than usual.
Drawn from Ville de Victoriaville, FIMAV.
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 Victoriaville 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
Sports · OpenStats
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Canadian Hockey League (OHL, WHL, QMJHL) member cities ranked by regular-season points percentage. One CHL team maps to each OpenStats hometown slug; standings snapshot is curated from public league tables.
Single edition · 2025
Only one published edition places Victoriaville in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
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
Sports · OpenStats
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Hometowns with a mapped junior hockey franchise ranked by local sports depth: league tier (CHL member leagues = 1.0, MHL = 0.65) multiplied by regular-season points percentage. Surfaces cities with both a franchise and a strong standings year; not a City Score pillar input.
Single edition · 2025
Only one published edition places Victoriaville in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Growth · OpenStats
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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.
Municipal pages lead with Quoi faire à Victo and MonDossier Victo, so the short form is official.
Parc du Boisé-des-Frères-du-Sacré-Coeur hosts artists-in-residence on the city calendar.
Cimetière St-Christophe-d'Arthabaska appears as a cultural visit listing, not only a burial ground.
FIMAV stages contemporary music in Victoriaville each May and keeps a rue Notre-Dame Est contact address.
Wooded municipal park that doubles as an artists-in-residence site. Victo puts culture under the trees on purpose.
Heritage cemetery on the cultural visit list in the Arthabaska sector. History walks start with a proper noun here.
May festival of musique actuelle that puts Victoriaville on the experimental-music map. Even non-attendees know the week by acronym.
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