Quebec · Civic arena
Dolbeau-Mistassini drinking water hardness is 178 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#274 of 343
44% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Dolbeau-Mistassini 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 Dolbeau-Mistassini water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Terrebonne · vs SherbrookeHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Dolbeau-Mistassini 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.
Dolbeau-Mistassini sits at City Score rank #274 with a standing of 44%, 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. Dropping 34 places versus 2022 (#240 → #274).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #249 of 327 at 71 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, Dolbeau-Mistassini carries a City Score standing of 44% (rank #274 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 3 points below the Quebec peer average across 34 ranked cities. Within Quebec, Dolbeau-Mistassini ranks #25 of 34 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is indoor radon (standing 76%, rank #249 of 327, raw score 70.9). The weakest observed pillar is population growth (standing 5%, rank #326 of 343).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 178 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Dolbeau-Mistassini. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #274 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #151
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Rank #182
Rank #249
Rank #50
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Dolbeau-Mistassini 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 Dolbeau-Mistassini.
Late-summer festival site tied to avenue de l'Église programming. Music, family activities, and blueberry desserts define August here.
Regional bike circuit that treats Dolbeau-Mistassini as a northern Lac-Saint-Jean stop rather than a detour.
La chaleur du Nord du Lac is the municipal welcome slogan.
Where Dolbeau-Mistassini sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
Dolbeau-Mistassini introduces itself as the Capitale mondiale du bleuet sauvage, and the city means the phrase as identity rather than marketing fluff. La chaleur du Nord du Lac is the welcome line on the homepage, and the commercial pitch is blunt: pôle commercial du nord du Lac-Saint-Jean. Boulevard Wallberg holds city hall. Avenue de l'Église carries festival and library addresses. Lac Saint-Jean beaches sit close enough that August still smells like shoreline and fruit stands before anyone opens a brochure.
Festival du Bleuet is the annual proof of the brand. Music, family grounds, and blueberry desserts fill the calendar while the Véloroute des Bleuets rolls riders through the haut du Lac-Saint-Jean and treats the town as a real stop. The city even points to chocolat aux bleuets frais des Pères as a seasonal ritual, not a souvenir-shop invention for strangers. When visitors ask what the north shore is for, locals still answer with fruit, festival nights, and lake water first.
Everyday geography keeps quieter names too. Vauvert shows up in municipal works notices, boulevard Vézina carries public works yards, and planning committees keep meeting through ordinary July heat. Put together, Dolbeau-Mistassini is a lake-north service town that built its public identity around one berry, a bike route, and a festival that still owns August without needing to borrow another city's story. Boulevard Wallberg administration and avenue de l'Église festival nights sit a short drive from lac Saint-Jean sand, which is why Nord du Lac still feels like one continuous summer map.
Drawn from Ville de Dolbeau-Mistassini, Destination Lac-Saint-Jean.
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 Dolbeau-Mistassini 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
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.
The city calls itself the Capitale mondiale du bleuet sauvage on its homepage.
La chaleur du Nord du Lac is the municipal welcome slogan.
Festival du Bleuet anchors late-summer programming around avenue de l'Église.
Municipal copy highlights annual chocolat aux bleuets frais des Pères production.
Late-summer festival site tied to avenue de l'Église programming. Music, family activities, and blueberry desserts define August here.
Beach kilometres the city cites as part of living in the Nord du Lac. Summer evenings lean lakeward.
Regional bike circuit that treats Dolbeau-Mistassini as a northern Lac-Saint-Jean stop rather than a detour.
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