New Brunswick · Civic arena
Edmundston drinking water hardness is 252 mg/L on OpenStats, plus City Score rankings and local readings.
Civic arena · hometown HUD
#312 of 343
40% City Score XP
5/8 pillars on the board
Decade trail
Edmundston 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 Edmundston water quality report →City Score rankingsCompare cities · vs Miramichi · vs BathurstHardness guide
Watershed to tap · system map
Source, treatment, and distribution for Edmundston 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.
Sports
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Edmundston sits at City Score rank #312 with a standing of 40%, 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 31 places versus 2022 (#343 → #312).
Latest owned placements: indoor radon rank #21 of 327 at 178 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, Edmundston carries a City Score standing of 40% (rank #312 of 343) with 5 of 8 pillars observed. That sits 7 points below the New Brunswick peer average across 16 ranked cities. Within New Brunswick, Edmundston ranks #14 of 16 on City Score.
The strongest signal in the current chart is population growth (standing 80%, rank #70 of 343, +2.2% annual growth). The weakest observed pillar is indoor radon (standing 6%, rank #21 of 327).
Drinking-water hardness on the water atlas reads 252 mg/L as CaCO₃ for Edmundston. Compare that figure to the hardness pillar on the chart and to the national hardness guide on the hub.
Arena loadout
Arena rank #312 of 343
5/8 pillars · main XP bar
Pillar avg · hardness #38
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Rank #21
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Edmundston 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 Edmundston.
Hill venue for municipal recreation events such as the Bike Rodeo. Locals know it as a program site as much as a skyline bump.
Saint-Basile park with the sector splash pad. Families treat it as the warm-weather stop on that side of town.
Saint-Basile's Parc du Berceau carries the municipal splash pad for that sector.
Where Edmundston sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Older hometown notes stay on the desk archive (noindex) — this section shows recent highlights only.
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 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 Edmundston 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
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). 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
OpenStats
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
Sports · OpenStats
OpenStats
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 Edmundston in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Sports · OpenStats
OpenStats
Maritime Hockey League (MHL) member cities ranked by regular-season points percentage. Smaller Atlantic league; only cities with a mapped MHL franchise appear.
Single edition · 2026
Only one published edition places Edmundston in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
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.
Festival Royal is a downtown summer festival that triggers published traffic changes.
Saint-Basile's Parc du Berceau carries the municipal splash pad for that sector.
Mont Farlagne hosts City recreation programming such as the Bike Rodeo.
Artisans' Square is the Canada Day free-activity stage named by the City.
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.
Saint-Basile park with the sector splash pad. Families treat it as the warm-weather stop on that side of town.
Hill venue for municipal recreation events such as the Bike Rodeo. Locals know it as a program site as much as a skyline bump.
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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