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OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Edmundston.

Rising+46

City Score #148 (2022) → #102 (2025)

How Edmundston scores

Rising+46

Edmundston sits at City Score rank #102 with a standing of 47%, from 7 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 46 places versus 2022 (#148 → #102).

Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #119 of 172 (2025); residential mill rate rank #110 of 172 (9.73 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.

#102
City Score rank
47%
City Score
Rising+46
vs 2022
#148 → #102

Local readings for Edmundston

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Local sports in Edmundston

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

Hometown notes

Archive

Earlier years: 2026 · 2025 · 2024 · 2023

Edmundston in brief

Edmundston runs on a French-first municipal voice, even when you click the English pages. Downtown, Festival Royal is the summer file that reshapes traffic for a couple of days, and Artisans' Square is where Canada Day free activities and evening shows land. De l'Église Street shows up in milling notices the way any hometown main street does when paving trucks arrive. Farther out, Riceville Road and Gabourie Road trade culvert closures and single-lane lights, the ordinary public-works rhythm that keeps the outage centre busy.

Sectors still matter. Saint-Basile has Parc du Berceau and its splash pad, and police notices name the sector the same way recreation does. Saint-Jacques is the neighbourhood named when adapted housing had to relocate. Mont Farlagne is the hill the City uses for a Bike Rodeo, a recreation landmark rather than a brochure peak. Léopold-Couturier Avenue sits between Albert Street and Isidore-Boucher Boulevard on the stormwater rehab list, which is how infrastructure talk sounds when the City awards a contract.

Indoor life points to the Jean-Daigle Centre among municipal facilities, and SOLSTICE Energy sits in the services menu as the local utility name. CBC New Brunswick still picks up Edmundston when housing covenants or sector projects spill into provincial headlines, but the day-to-day map is Festival Royal downtown, Saint-Basile for the splash pad, and Mont Farlagne when the kids need a hill. Street notices keep naming De l'Église, Riceville, and Gabourie because that is how people actually navigate construction season. Edmundston is northwest New Brunswick city life with sector names locals still use.

Drawn from Ville d'Edmundston, Edmundston sport facilities, CBC New Brunswick.

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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OpenStats City Score

Rankings for Edmundston

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

OpenStats

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

#72
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

#119
Latest · 2025 · of 172
Score 118326230

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

#102
Latest · 2025 · of 172
Score 0.469

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

#55
Latest · 2025 · of 172
Score 90.36

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

#20
Latest · 2025 · of 172
Score 252

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

#88
Published · 2025 · of 172
Score 3

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

Original source · Full edition

sports · OpenStats

OpenStats MHL Points Percentage

OpenStats

Cities with a Maritime Hockey League club in the OpenStats seed list ranked by regular-season points percentage. Rank 1 = highest points %. Source: Wikipedia MHL season standings (2022–23 through 2025–26). Clubs in towns outside the seed list are omitted.

4 editions · 2023–2026

#4
Latest · 2026 · of 6
Score 0.635

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

#30
Latest · 2025 · of 172
Score 0.02238973897389739

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

#110
Latest · 2025 · of 172
Score 9.728468013389213

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

#48
Latest · 2025 · of 172
Score 0.108

Worth knowing in Edmundston

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

  • Festival Royal is a downtown summer festival that triggers published traffic changes.

    Ville d'Edmundston

  • Saint-Basile's Parc du Berceau carries the municipal splash pad for that sector.

    Ville d'Edmundston

  • Artisans' Square is the Canada Day free-activity stage named by the City.

    Ville d'Edmundston

Places to see

Artisans' Square

Downtown square used for holiday free activities and evening shows. It is the civic stage when Festival Royal is not already occupying the street grid.

Parc du Berceau

Saint-Basile park with the sector splash pad. Families treat it as the warm-weather stop on that side of town.

Mont Farlagne

Hill venue for municipal recreation events such as the Bike Rodeo. Locals know it as a program site as much as a skyline bump.

Jean-Daigle Centre

Municipal facility on the City's Our city list. It anchors indoor civic and recreation life beside the outdoor festival calendar.

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